Template:RQ:Thomson Seasons/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote James Thomson's work The Seasons (1st collected edition, 1730; and 1768 version), which contain revisions to the poems since they were first published. It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• 1st collected edition (1730).
• 1768 version (archived at the Internet Archive).

Chapter or poem	First page number
1st collected edition (1730)
Spring. Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable the Countess of Hartford.	unnumbered page
Summer. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Mr. Dodington.	page 57
Autumn. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons. [First published in this edition.]	page 123
Winter. Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lord Wilmington.	page 189
A Hymn	page 231
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton. Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. (1727)	page 238
1768 version
An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. James Thomson (anonymous)	page v
Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson (by William Collins)	page xxviii
Spring	page 1
Summer	page 45
Autumn	page 113
Winter	page 163
A Hymn	page 205

Where possible, use {{RQ:Thomson Spring}}, {{RQ:Thomson Summer}}, and {{RQ:Thomson Winter}} to quote from the 1st editions of those poems instead of this template.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |year= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1768 version, specify |year=1768. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st collected edition (1730).
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11 or |pages=x–xi.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template indicate the chapter or poem quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

• |line= or |lines= – the line number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of lines, separate the first and last numbers of the range with an en dash.
• |stanza= – the stanza number quoted from in Arabic numerals.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

1st collected edition (1730)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Thomson Seasons|lines=831–832|page=43|passage=VVhen heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raiſe his being, and '''ſerene''' his ſoul.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Thomson Seasons|lines=831–832|43|VVhen heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raiſe his being, and '''ſerene''' his ſoul.}}
• Result:
  • 1730, James Thomson, “Spring. Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable the Countess of Hartford.”, in The Seasons, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 43, lines 831–832:

    VVhen heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raiſe his being, and ſerene his ſoul.

1768 version

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Thomson Seasons|year=1768|lines=10–14|page=165|passage=Pleas'd have I vvander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnovvs, myſelf as pure; / Heard the vvinds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep '''fermenting''' tempeſt brevv'd, / In the grim evening ſky.}}
• Result:
  • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 165, lines 10–14:

    Pleas'd have I vvander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnovvs, myſelf as pure; / Heard the vvinds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep fermenting tempeſt brevv'd, / In the grim evening ſky.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Thomson Seasons|year=1768|pages=9–10|pageref=10|lines=185–190|passage=Thus all day long the full-diſtended clouds / Indulge their genial ſtores, and vvell-ſhovver'd earth / Is deep enrich'd vvith vegetable life; / Till, in the vveſtern ſky, the dovvnvvard ſun / Looks out, '''effulgent''', from amid the fluſh / Of broken clouds, gay-ſhifting to his beam.}}
• Result:
  • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, lines 185–190:

    Thus all day long the full-diſtended clouds / Indulge their genial ſtores, and vvell-ſhovver'd earth / Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life; / Till, in the vveſtern ſky, the dovvnvvard ſun / Looks out, effulgent, from amid the fluſh / Of broken clouds, gay-ſhifting to his beam.

See also

• {{RQ:Thomson Spring}} · {{RQ:Thomson Summer}} · {{RQ:Thomson Autumn}} · {{RQ:Thomson Winter}} – to quote the individual poems in this work