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 - الصفحة 26بواسطة James Thorne - 1847عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| James Thomson - 1793 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...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 - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 574
..." 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 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...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 - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...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 - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...Mrs. Rowe, and the Patroness, whom Thomson invokes in his " Spring"). " It was her practice," says Dr. Johnson, " to invite, every summer, some poet into...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 - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...Rowe, and the patroness, whom Thomson invokes in his' " Spring.") " It was her practice," says Dr. Johnson, to invite, every summer, some poet into the...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 - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...Mrs. Rowe, and the patroness, whom Thomson invokes in hi* " Spring.") " It was her practice," says Dr. Johnson, to invite, every summer, some poet into the...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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