The poetical works of James Thomson. with his last corrections and improvements. In two volumes. With the Life of the Author. From the Royal Quarto Edition of 1762. He wants no advocate his cause to plead; You will yourselves be patrons of the dead. No party his benevolence confin'd, No sect-alike it flow'd to all mankind. - Such was the Man-The Poet well you know; Oft' has he touch'd your hearts with tender Woe:-For his chaste Muse employ'd her heav'n-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire: Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. - Prol. to Coriol. Vol. I.

People / Organizations

• James Thomson (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Fry and Couchman. Moorfields, Anno, 1787.

Publication year

1787-1787

ESTC No.

T204438

Grub Street ID

235168

Description

2v.,plates ; 18⁰

Note

With an engraved collective titlepage.

Uncontrolled note

Port. = frontis. - CSMHNOTE ST 5-17-04 Engr. collective t.p. in both vols, dated 1787, 1777 respectively; only other plate is the port. so "plate" singular in 300; additional letterpress t.p.'s in each vol. Matched anyway