 | George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 664 pages
...the Gallic dross that runs O'er your fair country and corrupts its sons. "The poet added in prose: 'In the society of Mr. Dennie and his friends at Philadelphia I passed the only agreeable moments which my tour through the States afforded me. Mr. Dennie has succeeded in diffusing... | |
 | Henry Adams - History - 2006 - 244 pages
...a little band of literary friends he passed his days in defying the indifference of his countrymen. "In the society of Mr. Dennie and his friends at Philadelphia...moments which my tour through the States afforded me," wrote in 1804 the British poet whom all the world united in calling by the familiar name of Tom Moore.... | |
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Dennie has succeeded in diffusing through this cultivated little circle that love for good literature and sound politics, which he feels so zealously himself, and which is so very rarely the characteristic of his countrymen. They will not, I trust, accuse... 
