 | Edward Jesse - Berkshire (England) - 1847 - 430 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." I also recollect having met with a passage, although I forget where, stating that when Thomson was... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...the most popular poets to hear her verses and assist her studies. " This honour," says Dr. Johnson, " was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with Lord Hartford than assisting her Ladyship's poetical operations:"2 consequently, he was not again invited.... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...Hertford, to whom Thomson dedicated his poem of Spring, to invite some poet every summer into tlie country to hear her verses and assist her studies. This honour was once conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with Lord Hertford and his friends than... | |
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1849 - 472 pages
...unskilful management on a visit here. " It was the practice of the Countess of Hertford," says Jolmson, " to invite every summer some poet into the country,...operations, and therefore never received another summons." The bard's insensibility to the lady's poetry was sufficiently provoking, but considering in what an... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...to be thought, a woman of intellect and spirit, "whose practice it was," Dr. Johnson informs us, " to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses und assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred upon Thomson, who took more delight in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 512 pages
...was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses and assist her studies.22 This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who...operations, and therefore never received another summons." 'Autumn,' the season to which the 'Spring' and 'Summer' are preparatory, still remained unsung, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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, to hear her verses and assist her studies. Thi8 honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with Lord Hertford... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...Hertford, his literary lady devoted it to the Muses. " She invited every summer," says Dr. Johnson, " some poet into the country to hear her verses and assist her studies.' Thomson, who praises her so lavishly in his " Spring," offended her ladyship by allowing her too clearly... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...Countess of Hertford, to whom Thomson dedicated his poem of Spring, to invite some poet every summer into the country to hear her verses and assist her studies. This honor was once conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with Lord Hertford and his... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 pages
...Countess of Hertford, to whom Thomson dedicated his poem of Spring, to invite some poet every summer into the country to hear her verses and assist her studies. This honour was once conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with Lord Hertford and his friends than... | |
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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... 
