PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page ix
... side of the green , and is the house nearest to London on that side . Here Samuel Rogers was born on the 30th of July , 1763 . The last hundred years have made fewer changes in Newington Green than in most other spots in the ...
... side of the green , and is the house nearest to London on that side . Here Samuel Rogers was born on the 30th of July , 1763 . The last hundred years have made fewer changes in Newington Green than in most other spots in the ...
Page x
Samuel Rogers. Daniel Radford , the Poet's grandfather on his mother's side , by careful attention to business , had been the maker of his own fortune . He was the son of Samuel Radford , a linendraper in Chester , and of Eleanor , a ...
Samuel Rogers. Daniel Radford , the Poet's grandfather on his mother's side , by careful attention to business , had been the maker of his own fortune . He was the son of Samuel Radford , a linendraper in Chester , and of Eleanor , a ...
Page xi
... side , cousin to Richard Payne Knight , the well known writer on Art and collector of Greek antiquities , and to Andrew Knight the writer on Horticulture ; while his wife , Mary Radford , was cousin to William Coxe , the traveller and ...
... side , cousin to Richard Payne Knight , the well known writer on Art and collector of Greek antiquities , and to Andrew Knight the writer on Horticulture ; while his wife , Mary Radford , was cousin to William Coxe , the traveller and ...
Page xiii
... side . The chapel is not without other literary claims to notice . In the next pew to him on the east side , sat a young lady , afterwards eminent in letters , Mary Wollstonecraft ; Daniel Defoe had attended worship there a century ...
... side . The chapel is not without other literary claims to notice . In the next pew to him on the east side , sat a young lady , afterwards eminent in letters , Mary Wollstonecraft ; Daniel Defoe had attended worship there a century ...
Page xvii
... side , sometimes at Margate , and sometimes at Brighton , for the benefit of sea - bathing . These visits gave him time for reading . Goldsmith's poems were among those upon which he formed his taste . Johnson's writings were always in ...
... side , sometimes at Margate , and sometimes at Brighton , for the benefit of sea - bathing . These visits gave him time for reading . Goldsmith's poems were among those upon which he formed his taste . Johnson's writings were always in ...
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