• I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

  James Thomson
  Scottish poet 1700-1748
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. philosophical
2. magnificence
3. sentiment
4. variety
5. beauty
6. where

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? by : James Thomson

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