"The generous Ashley thine, the friend of man; / Who scan'd his nature with a brother's eye, / His weakness prompt to shade, to raise his aim, / To touch the finer movements of the mind, / And with the moral beauty charm the heart."
Summer [from The Seasons (1730)]
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1730, 1731, 1735, 1740). [Also issued as part of <u>The Four Seasons, and Other Poems</u>.]<br>
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Poem first published  as <u>Summer. A Poem. By James Thomson.</u> (London: Printed for J. Millan, 1727). Second edition in 1728.<br>
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Text revised between 1727 and 1746. Searching text from <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830), 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.<br><br>
Collected in <u>The Seasons, A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem. By Mr. Thomson</u> (1730). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112624885&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;