Author: James Thomson

Cited by

• Elizabeth Helme (1)
  • IN: The Wilds of Strathnavern (1821) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: " Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest : a quick returning pang Shoots through the conscious heart- where honour still. And great design, against the oppressive load Of luxury, by fits impatient, heave." . -
    FROM: Spring, (1728), Poem, UK
• Regina Maria Roche (1)
  • IN: Contrast (1828) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: "sudden he starts, Shook from his tender trance, and restless runs, To glimmering shades and sympathetic glooms.”
    FROM: Spring, (1728), Poem, UK
• Washington Irving (1)
  • IN: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky.
    FROM: Castle of Indolence, (1748), Poem, UK
• Francis Lathom (2)
  • IN: The Fatal Vow or St Michaels Monastery (1807) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Has pass'd my lips methought in those sad moments, The tombs around, the saints, the darken'd altar, And all the trembling shrines with horror shook.
    FROM: Tancred and Sigismunda, (1745), Play, UK
  • IN: The Fatal Vow (1807) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The fatal vow Has pass'd my lips methought in those sad moments, The tombs around, the saints, the darken'd altar, And all the trembling shrines with horror shook.
    FROM: Tancred and Sigismunda, (1745), Play, UK
• Catharine Maria Sedwick (1)
  • IN: Married or Single (1858) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let not the fervent tongue, Prompt to deceive,'with adulation smooth, Gain on your purposed will; for nought but love Can answer love, and render bliss secure.”
    FROM: The Four Seasons: Spring, (1728), Poem, UK