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And being thus out of the immediate patronage of fashion, the great piece of water really looked natural, companionable, refreshing: you began to breathe; to unbutton your waistcoat, loosen your neckeloth, quote Chaucer, if you could recollect him, or Cowper, or Shakspeare, or Thomson's "Seasons;" in short, any scraps of verse that came into your head, as your feet grew joyously entangled with fern; as the trees grouped forest-like before and round you; trees which there, being out of sight, were allowed to grow too old to be worth five shillings a piece, moss-grown, hollow-trunked, some pollarded, trees invaluable!
In the form of his verse, James Thomson shows the influence of Milton as well as of Spencer. Thomson's greatest achievement is The Seasons , a romantic poem, written in Miltonic blank verse. He takes us where "The hawthorn whitens; and the juicy groves Put forth their buds." He was one of the earliest poets to place Nature in the foreground, to make her the chief actor.
These results were of much utility in their bearing on the working of submarine cables, and it is not too much to affirm that it was to Sir William Thomson's counsel that the success of the Atlantic Cable is in great part due. His mirror galvanometer was the first instrument that could be applied with anything like satisfactory results to submarine telegraphy.
But those advance thinkers who had grasped the import of the doctrine of conservation could at once appreciate the force of Thomson's doctrine of dissipation, and realize the complementary character of the two conceptions.
This has more majesty, and more to fill the imagination, than the corresponding paragraph in Thomson's Autumn. Say then where lurk the vast eternal springs, &c. 771. Yet it is inferior in beauty to some verses in a Latin poem by a writer who is now living.
Him from his craggy winding haunts unearth'd, Let all the thunder of the chase pursue. THOMSON'S Seasons. Brown rose early in the morning and walked out to look at the establishment of his new friend.
"Do you mind telling me, Major Thomson," he asked, "how it is that you, holding, I presume, a medical appointment, were selected to conduct an inquiry like this? I have voluntarily submitted myself to your questioning, but if I had had anything to conceal I might have been inclined to dispute your authority." Thomson's face was immovable. He simply pointed to the gate at the end of the avenue.
At last I got off, and we rowed round to Fort Genois, where my men had put up a capital gipsy tent with sails, and there was my big board and Thomson's number 5 in great glory. I soon came to the conclusion there was a break. Two of my faithful Cagliaritans slept all night in the little tent, to guard it and my precious instruments; and the sea, which was rather rough, silenced my Frenchmen.
Thomson's expectation has been, to some extent, already verified. Thus besides Globigerina, there are eighteen species of deep-sea Foraminifera identical with species found in the chalk.
When the attainder on Russell was removed by King William III., the same justice was done to his friend Algernon Sidney, who is united with him in the famous lines of Thomson's patriotic remembrance: "With him His friend the British Cassius, fearless lad, Of high determined spirit, roughly brave, By ancient learning to the enlightened love Of ancient freedom warmed."
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