"Nor is the Mead unworthy of thy Foot, "Where, undisguis'd by mimic Art, she spreads THOMSON'S SEASONS. LONDON: Printed by J. D. Dewick, Aldersgate Street, FOR LONGMAN AND REES; J. CUTHELL; AND VERNOR 1801. TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. MADAM, A STRANGER to England, but not so to the refined taste for polite literature, and unbounded patronage of the fine arts, so eminently conspicuous in your Grace: permit me, Madam, to offer to your favourable notice the following hasty sketches, originating from objects but imperfectly known to this country; and by the present crisis, rendered particularly interesting. The intention with which they are published will, I trust, in some degree, extenuate their faults; and |