 Rickleton's poem on Winter, which I still have, first put the design into my head — in it are some masterly strokes that awakened me — being only a present amusement, it is ten to one but I drop it whenever another fancy comes across.  The Universal magazine - Seite 961811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1913 - 324 Seiten
...— "Nature delights mein every form; lam just now painting her in her most lugubrious dress . . . Mr Rickleton's poem on Winter, which I still have,...In it are some masterly strokes that awakened me." It is curious that Thomson should have had a copy of Riccaltoun 's poem in 1725, which was not published... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1896 - 468 Seiten
...fully acknowledged his indebtedness to his early friend, whose ode on the same topic, as he states, ' first put the design into my head. In it are some masterly strokes that awakened me.' Two years previous to his settlement at Hopekirk,Riccaltounpublishedanonymously one of the earliest... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 634 Seiten
...happened here (I wish you have not felt them too dreadfully) ; the first produced the enclosed lines ; the last are not completed. Mr. Rickleton's poem on...— in it are some masterly strokes that awakened me — being only a present amusement, it is ten to one but I drop it whenever another fancy comes across.... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1907 - 278 Seiten
...time when he was engaged on his own poem of Winter, wrote thus : " Mr. Eiccaltoun's poem on "\Eater, which I still have, first put the design into my head ; in it are some masterly strokes which awakened me." The poem referred to is generally assumed to be that entitled A Winter's Day, published... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1908 - 280 Seiten
...Thomson, at the time when he was engaged on his own poem of fainter, wrote thus : " Mr. Riccaltoun's poem on Winter, which I still have, first put the...design into my head ; in it are some masterly strokes which awakened me." The poem referred to is generally assumed to be that entitled A Winter's Day, published... | |
 | Hew Scott - 1917 - 484 Seiten
...delights me in every form : I am just now painting her in her most lugubrious dress. Mr Riccaltoun's poem on 'Winter,' which I still have, first put the...In it are some masterly strokes that awakened me." — [Newton's Works, xii. ; Morel's James Thomson, sa vie et ses ceuvres, 18 ; Somerville's Life and... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 266 Seiten
...happen'd here, (I wish you have not felt them too dreadfully) ; the first produced the enclosed lines, the last are not completed. Mr. Rickleton's poem on...into my head. In it are some masterly strokes that awaken'd me — being only a present amusement 'tis ten to one but I drop it in whene'er another fancy... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 268 Seiten
...happen'd here, (I wish you have not felt them too dreadfully) ; the first produced the enclosed lines, the last are not completed. Mr. Rickleton's poem on Winter, which I still have, fust put the design into my head. In it are some masterly strokes that awaken'd me — being only a... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1928 - 394 Seiten
...the influence of Riccaltoun's poem on Thomson's Winter, the latter himself writes, " Mr. Riccaltoun's poem on Winter, which I still have, first put the...in it are some masterly strokes that awakened me." 19 These poems appear to have quite popularised the theme of winter as a fit subject for poetry,20... | |
 | 1888 - 668 Seiten
...passage referring to Riccaltoun is as follows : — "Mr. Riccaltoun's poem on Winter, which I (till have, first put the design into my head. In it are some masterly strokes that awakened me; being only a present amusement, it is ten to one but 1 drop it whenever another fancy cornea across.... | |
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