| 588 pages
...on this, is less polite towards her interests in literature, and tells us that it was her 'practice to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies,' adding that this honour was one year conferred on Thomson, but he ' took more delight in carousing... | |
| Gordon S. Maxwell - Literary landmarks - 1924 - 350 pages
...affected to be thought a woman of intellect, and Dr. Johnson says, rather quaintly : " It was her practice to invite every summer some poet into the country to hear her verses and to assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing... | |
| James Thomson - Fine books - 1927 - 232 pages
...Johnson maintains that Thomson was not sufficiently assiduous in his attentions to Lady Hertford, that he "took more delight in carousing with Lord Hertford...than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations"; hence he *These lines will be found not in Summer but in Autumn — Thomson's mind recurring to the... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1917 - 488 pages
...on this, is less polite towards her interests in literature, and tells us that it was her "practice to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies, ' ' adding that this honour was one year conferred on Thomson, but he "took more delight in carousing... | |
| Scotland - 1878 - 798 pages
...Spring,' " he writes, " was published in 1728, with a dedication to Lady Hartford ; whose practice it was to invite, every summer, some poet into the country,...Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with Lord Hartford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received... | |
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