ISBN: 9781155124780

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. 1818-19. Lines on the Temple at Woburn--Luttrell''s lines on Rogers''s Seat--Lord Holland''s Pamphlet--His '' Dream '' of University Extension--Sketch of a Poem--Moore and Rogers at Bowood--Stories of Sheridan--Rogers to Mrs. Greg-Sonnet by Lord Holland--Mooro and Rogers--Crabbe and his Publisher--Rogers''s '' Human Life ''--Don Juan on Rogers--Offers of Help to Moore--Letter from Crabbe--Rogers out of Politics--Two Generations of Literary Talk. Moore''s Diary begins in August, 1818, and from that time forward Rogers''s life is almost written in it. The first mention of him is in September, 1818, when Moore says that Rogers has made a paraphrase, in blank verse, of two lines from Pindar, for an inscription on the Temple of the Graces which the Duke of Bedford is building at Woburn. These are the lines--Approach with reverence. There are those within Whose dwelling place is Heaven. Daughters of Jove, From them flow all the decencies of life; Without them nothing pleases. Virtue''s self Admired, not loved; and those on whom they smile, Great though they be, and wise and beautiful, Shine forth with double lustre. It was the custom in those days to put up inscriptions of this kind. I have already given the lines placed by Lord Holland on the summer-house in the garden of Holland House called Rogers''s seat. On the same building there were some verses by Luttrell, which, many years later, he showed to Macaulay, adjuring him, with mock pathos, to spare his blushes. Macaulay read the lines and speaks of them as very pretty and polished, but too many to be remembered from one reading. They are preserved in MS. probably as Luttrell sent them to Rogers--How charmed is the eye which in summer reposes On this haunt of the poet o''ershadowed with roses. I''ll in and be seate... Peter William Clayden, Books, History, Rogers and His Contemporaries (Volume 1 ) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781155124780

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. 1818-19. Lines on the Temple at Woburn--Luttrell''s lines on Rogers''s Seat--Lord Holland''s Pamphlet--His '' Dream '' of University Extension--Sketch of a Poem--Moore and Rogers at Bowood--Stories of Sheridan--Rogers to Mrs. Greg-Sonnet by Lord Holland--Mooro and Rogers--Crabbe and his Publisher--Rogers''s '' Human Life ''--Don Juan on Rogers--Offers of Help to Moore--Letter from Crabbe--Rogers out of Politics--Two Generations of Literary Talk. Moore''s Diary begins in August, 1818, and from that time forward Rogers''s life is almost written in it. The first mention of him is in September, 1818, when Moore says that Rogers has made a paraphrase, in blank verse, of two lines from Pindar, for an inscription on the Temple of the Graces which the Duke of Bedford is building at Woburn. These are the lines--Approach with reverence. There are those within Whose dwelling place is Heaven. Daughters of Jove, From them flow all the decencies of life; Without them nothing pleases. Virtue''s self Admired, not loved; and those on whom they smile, Great though they be, and wise and beautiful, Shine forth with double lustre. It was the custom in those days to put up inscriptions of this kind. I have already given the lines placed by Lord Holland on the summer-house in the garden of Holland House called Rogers''s seat. On the same building there were some verses by Luttrell, which, many years later, he showed to Macaulay, adjuring him, with mock pathos, to spare his blushes. Macaulay read the lines and speaks of them as very pretty and polished, but too many to be remembered from one reading. They are preserved in MS. probably as Luttrell sent them to Rogers--How charmed is the eye which in summer reposes On this haunt of the poet o''ershadowed with roses. I''ll in and be seate... Peter William Clayden, Books, History, Rogers and His Contemporaries (Volume 1 ) Books>History <