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Excerpt from The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems: Being a Selection From the Poetical Works of James Thomson
James Thomson was born at port-glasgow on the a3rd November, 1834. He was the first child of his parents who were both Scotch and certainly he him self was by nature as well as by parentage no less a true son of the ''land of the mountain and the ?ood'' than Robert Burns or Sir Walter Scott. A stranger or more unaccountable report never got about than that which gave him for a father that compound of false sentiment and tinsel rhetoric, the author of ''paul Clifford'' and ''ernest Maltravers.'' The poet''s father was a sailor in the merchant service, in which be attained a good position and continued to prosper until, in is4o, when acting as chief o?icer of the ship Eliza Stewart of Greenock, he was disabled by a paralytic stroke, the effect, it is said, of a week of terrible storm, during which he was unable to change his drenched clothing. Up to this time he had been of a cheerful disposition, fond of society, and a delightful companion: but now a change greatly for the worse took place, and his temper became strange, moody, and uncertain. He lived on till is53, but in a state of melancholy and weakness of mind which prevented him from pro viding for his sons, or from acting as a guardian towards them. The poet''s mother, ne''e Sarah Kennedy, was a deeply religious woman, and a de voted follower of Edward Irving. It was from her, no doubt, that her son inherited the deep vein of melancholy in his disposition; for it appears that she was of a highly emotional and imaginative tempera ment. One of the best of wives and mothers, it was agreat misfortune for the poet that she died when he was little more than eight years old.
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James Thomson was born at port-glasgow on the a3rd November, 1834. He was the first child of his parents who were both Scotch and certainly he him self was by nature as well as by parentage no less a true son of the ''land of the mountain and the ?ood'' than Robert Burns or Sir Walter Scott. A stranger or more unaccountable report never got about than that which gave him for a father that compound of false sentiment and tinsel rhetoric, the author of ''paul Clifford'' and ''ernest Maltravers.'' The poet''s father was a sailor in the merchant service, in which be attained a good position and continued to prosper until, in is4o, when acting as chief o?icer of the ship Eliza Stewart of Greenock, he was disabled by a paralytic stroke, the effect, it is said, of a week of terrible storm, during which he was unable to change his drenched clothing. Up to this time he had been of a cheerful disposition, fond of society, and a delightful companion: but now a change greatly for the worse took place, and his temper became strange, moody, and uncertain. He lived on till is53, but in a state of melancholy and weakness of mind which prevented him from pro viding for his sons, or from acting as a guardian towards them. The poet''s mother, ne''e Sarah Kennedy, was a deeply religious woman, and a de voted follower of Edward Irving. It was from her, no doubt, that her son inherited the deep vein of melancholy in his disposition; for it appears that she was of a highly emotional and imaginative tempera ment. One of the best of wives and mothers, it was agreat misfortune for the poet that she died when he was little more than eight years old.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Language - English
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James Thomson
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ISBN - 9780267210398
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Page Count - 285
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James Thomson
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ISBN - 9781331109952
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Page Count - 287
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