Thomson

Famous quotes containing the word thomson:

    “The street-lamps burn amidst the baleful glooms,
    Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
    Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.”
    —James Thomson (1834–1882)

    “But who can paint
    Like Nature? Can imagination boast
    Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)

    “But chief to heedless flies the window proves
    A constant death; where gloomily retired,
    The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce,
    Mixture abhorred! Amid a mangled heap
    Of carcases in eager watch he sits,
    O’erlooking all his waving snares around.”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)