Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Wilmington

invoked by Thomson in his Winter, is Sir Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, the first patron of our poet, and Speaker of the House of Commons.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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