Thomson

Famous quotes containing the word thomson:

    “The mighty river flowing dark and deep,
    With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides
    Vague-sounding through the City’s sleepless sleep,
    Is named the River of the Suicides;”
    —James Thomson (1834–1882)

    “If fancy then
    Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task,
    Ah, what shall language do?”
    —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)