"Wide-stretching from these shores, / A people savage from remotest time, / A huge neglected empire, one vast mind, /  By Heaven inspired, from gothic darkness call'd."
Winter [from The Seasons (1744, 1746)]
Finding at least 80 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1744, 1746, 1750, 1758, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1800).<br>
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See <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (London: Printed [by Henry Woodfall] for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1746). 234 pp. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315865100&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Winter was first published in 1726. Text much revised and expanded between 1726 and 1746. Searching metaphors in <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830) through Stanford HDIS interface, later checked against earlier editions. Also reading James Sambrook's edition of <u>The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence</u> (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), which reproduces the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem. Searching in ECCO to confirm dates of publication.