Authority Cited: Thomson
Author name and dates: James Thomson (1700-1748)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 335 Thomson cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 300 Thomson cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four Thomson cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. There are about 52 line numbers for Thomson cites in the 1755 Dict. vol.1, about six Thompson cites with line numbers in Dict. vol. 2. Several examples of the text line vs the Dict. line citation are given below. When the Dict. citation is to a different line, it is almost always related to a margin line citation ending in "5" or "0." It is likely, I think, that the transcriber copied the nearest printed line number and did not determine the exact line when transcribing the quote. Wimsatt, in Philosophic Words, p. 158, consulted a 1908 edition with the 1746 text, which indicated larger line number deviations. For an interesting discussion of SJ's use of Thomson in the Dict. see Implicit Criticism of Thomson's "Seasons" in Johnson's "Dictionary" by Thomas B. Gilmore, Modern Philology, Vol. 86, No. 3 (Feb., 1989), pp. 265-273. Gilmore reports 614 cites of the The Seasons.]
The Seasons. By James Thomson, 1746, London: printed for A. Millar, in the Strand (the last in Thomson's lifetime - or the 1744 or 1752 London ed. or the 1750 London (Dublin) ed. which appear to have the same line numbers for accelerate and adhesive)
Author name and dates: James Thomson (1700-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Edinburgh education; tutor; successful blank verse poet playwright; SJ: power of viewing every thing in a poetical light
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 335 Thomson cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 300 Thomson cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four Thomson cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. There are about 52 line numbers for Thomson cites in the 1755 Dict. vol.1, about six Thompson cites with line numbers in Dict. vol. 2. Several examples of the text line vs the Dict. line citation are given below. When the Dict. citation is to a different line, it is almost always related to a margin line citation ending in "5" or "0." It is likely, I think, that the transcriber copied the nearest printed line number and did not determine the exact line when transcribing the quote. Wimsatt, in Philosophic Words, p. 158, consulted a 1908 edition with the 1746 text, which indicated larger line number deviations. For an interesting discussion of SJ's use of Thomson in the Dict. see Implicit Criticism of Thomson's "Seasons" in Johnson's "Dictionary" by Thomas B. Gilmore, Modern Philology, Vol. 86, No. 3 (Feb., 1989), pp. 265-273. Gilmore reports 614 cites of the The Seasons.]
The Seasons. By James Thomson, 1746, London: printed for A. Millar, in the Strand (the last in Thomson's lifetime - or the 1744 or 1752 London ed. or the 1750 London (Dublin) ed. which appear to have the same line numbers for accelerate and adhesive)
- Autumn: adhesive (1746 and other ed. listed above: l. 441, SJ: l. 440); agglomerate; buoyant l. 454, SJ: l. 455; dissipate; morass l. 480, SJ: l. 480;
- Spring: botanist: affectionate; amusive; corrode l. 1075, SJ: 1075; delirious; fermentation; indissoluble; languish l. 1034, SJ: 1035; palpitation; rotation; suffocate; torpid; vegetation;
- Summer: abhorrent l. 310; accelerate[d] l. 1692, SJ: l. 1690; ally; ananas; dash l. 1100; die l. 1636, SJ: l. 1685 (dye in text, cited as Thompson); desolation l. 1078, SJ: l. 1075; devolve l. 809, SJ: 840; diamond l. 139, SJ: l. 140; evanescent; irritate; minutely l. 41, SJ: l. 40; putrefaction; sulphur; vibration;
- Winter: amount; congeal; digest l. 551, SJ: l. 550; luculent l. 713, SJ: l. 715;
- Thomson (no work cited); ample; bright; let; roar; unbending; tempest (cited as Thompson); [BKG Note: Thomson cites with no work named appear to be from The Seasons.]
- Epilogue To Tancred And Sigismunda; flippant (inexact quote, perhaps from memory of text or performance; Dict.: "Away with flippant epilogues." Text: "Hence with your flippant epilogue.") Cited as "Thomson."