The poetical works of James Thomson ...

cxliv MEMOIR OF THOMSON.
for it was free from a single act which could
create remorse. To his relations he was liberal
and affectionate; to his friends faithful and devoted: viewing all mankind with beneficence and
love, he performed with exemplary but unostentatious piety that first of Christian virtues, to teach
the world to reverence the Creator in his works,
and to learn from them veneration for his wisdom
and confidence in his mercy. Secure from the
revolutions of taste or time, Thomson's labours
are destined to descend with undiminished admiration to the latest posterity; and it may be predicted with confidence, that future generations,
like the last and present, will have their reverence for the God of Nature excited, and their
earliest attachment to Nature herself strengthened, by the Poet who has sung her in all her
"6 Seasons."