Spring was published next year, with a dedication to the countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took... Rambles by Rivers: The Thames. Another issue - Page 28by James Thorne - 1849Full view - About this book
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...SPRING" was published next year, with a dedication to the countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country,...operations, and therefore never received another summons. " AUTUMN," the season to which the *' Spring" and " Summer" are preparatory, still remained unsung,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...Spring" was published next year, with a dedication to the countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country,...honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took moredclight in carousing wirh lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to iiear her verses and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took moredelight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical... | |
| 1805 - 574 pages
..." Spring was published in the next year with a dedication to lady Hartford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her versa, and assist her studies. This honor was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight... | |
| Frances Seymour Duchess of Somerset - 1806 - 346 pages
...year, with a de-, dication to lady Hartford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some VII poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist...Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hartford and his friends* than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received... | |
| Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 534 pages
...its musick shall not droop; and should it Johnson relates, that it was the practice of lady Hertford to invite every summer some poet into the country,...her verses and assist her studies. " This honour/' he adds, " was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford... | |
| Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 540 pages
...adds, " was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons." 9 In this anecdote sarcastic pleasantry may have been mingled with collateral fact. Lady Hertford informs... | |
| John Bew - 1807 - 408 pages
...the Patroness, whom Thomson invokes in his " Spring"). " It was her practice," says Dr. Johnson, " to invite, every summer, some poet into the country,...operations, and therefore never received another summons." But whatever were the merits of this excellent lady's poetry, some of her letters, which have been... | |
| David Hughson - London (England) - 1808 - 576 pages
...and the patroness, whom Thomson invokes in his' " Spring.") " It was her practice," says Dr. Johnson, to invite, every summer, some poet into the country,...operations, and therefore never received another summons." But whatever were the merits of this excellent lady's poetry, some of her letters, which have been... | |
| David Hughson - London (England) - 1808 - 566 pages
...and the patroness, whom Thomson invokes in hi* " Spring.") " It was her practice," says Dr. Johnson, to invite, every summer, some poet into the country,...operations, and therefore never .received another summons." But whatever were the mernV of this excellent lady's poetry, some of her letters, whicb. have been... | |
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