This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...poem in the language: Coleridge, seeing a soiled copy of this work lying in the window-seat of an obscure inn on the sea-coast of Somersetshire, he said, "That is true fame." Victor, in a note in the third volume of his Poems, relates: --"The excellent poem of Winter was written in the year 1724, some few ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...poem in the language: Coleridge, seeing a soiled copy of this work lying in the window-seat of an obscure inn on the sea-coast of Somersetshire, he said, "That is true fame." Victor, in a note in the third volume of his Poems, relates: --"The excellent poem of Winter was written in the year 1724, some few months after the author's arrival in London, from Edinburgh. He had no friend here but Mr. Malloch, his schoolfellow, who then lived in the house of the Duke of Montrose, in Hanoversquare, as tutor to the Duke's two sons. I remember Mr. Malloch (who soon after changed his name to Mallet) and I walked, one November day, to all the booksellers in the Strand and Fleet-street, to sell the copy of this poem; and at last could only fix with Mr. Millar, who then lived in a little shop in Fleet-street; and the chief motive with him was, that the author was his countryman; for, after several arguments, we could but get three pounds! This poem was dedicated to Sir Spencer Compton, then Speaker of the House of Commons, who took no notice of the author for more than a month. Our agreeable friend, Mr. Hill, who had read and admired the poem in manuscript, was so provoked at this shameful neglect, that he wrote about twenty satirical lines, which were printed, wherein he told the author he was mistaken if he expected ministers of state to do honour to his poem, as being much above their comprehension. Soon after, Sir Spencer Compton sent for the author, and, with some apology, gave him a bank bill of twenty pounds. "The poem sold so well, that Mr. Millar gave Thomson fifty pounds for the second (Spring); the copy-money was increased for the Summer and Autumn; and when printed together, so many editions were sold in a few years, that this...
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