 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 páginas
...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...carousing with Lord Hertford and his friends than in assisting her Ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons.113 '... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 430 páginas
...was the practice of the Countess, says Johnson, "to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies. That honour...now termed it her Hermitage. Shd died there July 7, 1754. The estate went to her daughter Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland, whose husband sold it,... | |
 | 1878 - 822 páginas
...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 more delight in carousing with Lord Hartford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 páginas
...call a civil manner ; asked me some commonplace questions ; and made me a present of twenty guineas." took more delight in carousing with Lord Hertford...operations, and therefore never received another summons." He afterwards travelled on the Continent with a pupil ; on his return, he was given the place of secretary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 páginas
...afterwards Duchess of Somerset. Vid. swpr. vol. ii. p. 342. III. Q verses, and assist her studies. This honour was one Summer conferred on Thomson, who took...delight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends then assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons. "Autumn,"1... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 páginas
...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...and therefore never received another summons." The scene of those carousals was Marlborough Castle, in Wiltshire, where, probably in 1727, notwithstanding... | |
 | Anne Mozley - 1892 - 418 páginas
...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 more delight in carousing with Lord Hartford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 páginas
...summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses and assist her studies," extended this courtesy to Thomson, "who took more delight in carousing with...Hertford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's * " The Hermit." f " Essay on Man," Epistle I. J " Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ?" etc. —... | |
 | Gerald Brenan - 1902 - 564 páginas
...into the country to hear her verses and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred upon Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with Lord Hertford and his friends than in assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons." 3 These... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...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...operations, and therefore never received another summons 4. Autumn, the season to which the Spring and Summer are 17 preparatoiy, still remained unsung, and... | |
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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... 
