The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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AI 1854 MAIN It is now more than a third of a century since Lord Byron alluded to the author of " Human Life " as the Nestor of the living poets . Since that time most of his then celebrated brethren have passed away ; but the venerable ...
AI 1854 MAIN It is now more than a third of a century since Lord Byron alluded to the author of " Human Life " as the Nestor of the living poets . Since that time most of his then celebrated brethren have passed away ; but the venerable ...
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... as he tells us in his Memoirs , that the particular type in which it is there printed , and the very color of the paper , were through life associated with every line of it in his memory . Rogers was an early friend of Lord Byron .
... as he tells us in his Memoirs , that the particular type in which it is there printed , and the very color of the paper , were through life associated with every line of it in his memory . Rogers was an early friend of Lord Byron .
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It was written by Mr. Ward , afterwards Lord Dudley , and was alluded to many years afterwards by the Quarterly , as a " masterpiece of damning by faint praise . " The review nettled the poet not a MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS . 27.
It was written by Mr. Ward , afterwards Lord Dudley , and was alluded to many years afterwards by the Quarterly , as a " masterpiece of damning by faint praise . " The review nettled the poet not a MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS . 27.
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From an allusion to it in Medwin's Conversations with Lord Byron , we should imagine that the poet revenged himself by the satire ; but from an allusion in the Quarterly Review we infer that Rogers was the first offender .
From an allusion to it in Medwin's Conversations with Lord Byron , we should imagine that the poet revenged himself by the satire ; but from an allusion in the Quarterly Review we infer that Rogers was the first offender .
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... a recommendation with which they will very easily comply , as the poem does not exceed seven or eight hundred lines . " --- In this connection the following contemporaneous memoranda of Lord Byron's , touching the poet and his ...
... a recommendation with which they will very easily comply , as the poem does not exceed seven or eight hundred lines . " --- In this connection the following contemporaneous memoranda of Lord Byron's , touching the poet and his ...
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