SOURCE: "On the Originality of The Seasons," in Strictures, Critical and Sentimental, on Thomson's "Seasons," Garland Publishing, Inc., 1970, pp. 167-87.

In the following chapter from his book-length study of The Seasons, first published in 1777, More praises Thomson's originality in both the objects he describes and his language. More contends that human nature, in a love of novelty, seeks originality; therefore, according to More, Thomson's poetry is greatly in synchrony with the desires of human nature.

 To such the bounteous Providence of Heav'n,
In every breast implanting this desire
Of objects new and strange, to urge us on
With unremitted labour to pursue
Those sacred stores that wait the rip'ning foul
In Truth's exhaustless bosom.—— 

[Previously] we have attempted… an imperfect sketch of the leading object to which the Seasons of Thomson are chiefly directed. The great and only general effect, which he seems most solicitous to produce in...