"E'en not all these, in one rich lot combined, / Can make the happy man, without the mind; / Where judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys / The chain of reason with unerring gaze; / Where fancy lives, and to the brightening eyes, / His fairer scenes, and bolder figures rise;  / Where social love exerts her soft command, / And plays the passions with a tender hand,  / Whence every virtue flows, in rival strife, / And all the moral harmony of life."
The Happy Man
At least 6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1729, 1730, 1743, 1748, 1779, 1790)<br>
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First printed in <u>Ralph's Miscellany</u> and reprinted to be bound up with <u>The Seasons</u>. Also printed in Dodsley's <u>Collection of Poems</u> (1748), iii. 321-2. Omitted from later editions and from Thomson's <u>Works</u>. Appears in Johnson's <u>Works of the English Poets</u> (1779), xlix. 184 (and again in 1790).<br>
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See <u>Miscellaneous Poems, by Several Hands: Particularly The D--- of W---n, Sir Samuel Garth, Dean S-, Mr. John Hughes, Mr. Thomson, Mrs. C-r. Publish'd by Mr. Ralph.</u> (London: Printed by C. Ackers, for W. Meadows at the Angel in Cornhill; J. Batley at the Dove in Paternoster-Row; T. Cox at the Lamb under the Royal-Exchange; S. Billingsley at the Judge's Head in Chancery-Lane; R. Hett at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry near Cheapside; and J. Gray at the Cross-Keys in the Poultry, 1729). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110619696&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading James Thomson, <u>Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and other Poems</u>, ed. James Sambrook (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).