...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,...

...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...

...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...

..." 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...