This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... him at the age of eighty-eight, to have a breakfast party at home, go to a wedding breakfast, where he returned thanks for the bridesmaids, then to Chiswick, where he was presented to an Imperial Highness, dine out, go to the Opera and look in at a ball--all within the space of forty-eight hours. If ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... him at the age of eighty-eight, to have a breakfast party at home, go to a wedding breakfast, where he returned thanks for the bridesmaids, then to Chiswick, where he was presented to an Imperial Highness, dine out, go to the Opera and look in at a ball--all within the space of forty-eight hours. If his fancy for keeping nightingales in cages to sing to him was an affectation, and rather a cruel one, he could be perfectly natural when drinking tea with Wordsworth at Grasmere or listening in admitted bewilderment to the monologues of Coleridge. The labour Rogers bestowed on his poems, happily quizzed by Sydney Smith, was characteristic of the man. Anxious consultations with Wharton and Gilpin, with Sharp, Moore, and Mackintosh, on meticulous variations, and the weighing of here a line and there a line, here a little and there a little, preceded publication. The gestation of " Columbus," in particular, was elephantine in its slowness, and the result was a fragmentary production, disfigured by a straining of language and held together by supernatural machinery that might have been borrowed from pantomime. The versification, too, was careless, despite the labours of the committee, and Lord Dudley pounced in the Quarterly on lines like: "There silent sate many an unbidden guest." If Rogers touched absurdity in "Columbus," he descended to feebleness in "Jacqueline," the "highly refined but somewhat insipid pastoral," as George Ellis called it, also in the Quarterly, which he was misguided enough to publish in the same volume with Byron's " Lara." But "The Pleasures of Memory," the " Epistle to a Friend," "Human Life," and " Italy" display Rogers as a genuine poet; though Byron's famous triangle, in which Scott is placed above the apex, Rogers...
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Near Fine with no dust jacket. Reprint of a work first published in 1908. Illustrated, index, 384p. Owner's name is inside front cover, else book is as new, very tight and clean, obviously unread. Holland House was an intellectual headquarters for English liberals and reformers during the first half of the 19th century. 8vo 8"-9" tall. I4.
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