Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Vol. I Contents
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CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
1803-1805.
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Rogers at St. James’s Place—His Poetical
Contemporaries—His Social Position—His Friends—Reasons for his choice of
a Bachelor Life—Gilpin’s Last Letter—R.
Bloomfield—Walter Scott—Journey to
Scotland—Visit to
Wordsworth—Coleridge’s First
Impressions of Rogers—Burns’s
Grave—Glasgow in 1803—‘Man of Feeling’
Mackenzie—Francis
Horner—Mackintosh—Sydney
Smith—‘To a Girl
Asleep’—Southey’s ‘Madoc’—Scott’s ‘Lay’—The Young
Roscius—Rogers and Dr.
Burney—Windham—Rogers
and T. Moore’s ‘ever-memorable party’
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CHAPTER II.
1805-1809.
Rogers and Fox—Visits to
Fox—Fox’s Last
Illness—Death of Fox—Holland
House—Rogers and Lord and Lady
Holland—Death of Maria and Sutton
Sharpe—Their Children—Catharine
Sharpe—Rogers and Thomas
Moore—Moore’s Duel with
Jeffrey—Richard Sharp in
Parliament—Windham—Mrs.
Inchbald—Uvedale
Price—Rogers and
Wordsworth—Brighton in 1808—Rogers
and Lord Erskine—Rogers and
Walter Scott—Hoppner—The Quarterly Review—Lines on Mrs.
Duff—Scott on Mrs. Duff’s
Death—Letter from Luttrell—Rogers and
the Princess of Wales
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CHAPTER III.
1810-1812.
PAGE
Columbus—Letters to Richard
Sharp—T. Moore—An Idyll at
Hagley—Recollections of Porson, Windham,
Cumberland, Horne
Tooke—Tooke’s Adventures—His
Funeral—Rogers and Byron—Meeting
of Moore, Campbell, and
Byron at Rogers’s
House—Coleridge’s Lecture—‘Childe Harold’—Tom
Grenville’s Criticism on the Poem—Byron and
Lord Holland—Rogers at the
Lakes—The Mackintoshes and
Sharp—Dr.
Bell—Wordsworth’s Lost
Child—Rogers at Ormithwaite, Keswick,
Lowther—Lord
Lonsdale—Brougham—Rogers
at Glenfinnart—Lord Dunmore—Letters to R.
Sharp, to H. Rogers, to Sarah
Rogers—Letter of Lord
Holland—Rogers at Crewe
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CHAPTER IV.
1813-1814.
‘Columbus’—Ward’s Review in The Quarterly—Rogers’s Epigram on
Ward—Mackintosh’s Review in The Edinburgh—Wordsworth on
Scott—Byron’s Letters—His
Verses on Rogers—Rogers at Bowood; at
Woolbeding—Byron’s Estimate of
Rogers—Rogers and
Sheridan—An unsuspected Source of
Sheridan’s Income—Byron’s
Letters to Rogers-Jacqueline—Luttrell’s
Criticism—Lady Jersey—Letter from
Wordsworth—Jekyll—Rogers’s
Love for Children—Epigram on the White
Cockade—Sir George Beaumont’s Epitaph on
Johnson—Uvedale Price
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CHAPTER V.
The Peace of 1814—Rogers goes to France,
Switzerland, and Italy—Diary of the Journey—The English in
Paris—Napoleon Legends at St.
Cloud—Fontainebleau—The Journey
South—Bossuet’s
House—Coppet—Geneva—News from Richard Sharp of
Friends at Home—Rogers in
Venice—Petrarch’s House at
Arqua—Florence—A Winter in Rome—Visit to the Pope—Naples and
Murat—The Hollands—The
Princess of Wales—Bonaparte’s Return from
Elba—War Preparations—Homewards through War Alarms—Paestum—The
Diary the Germ of ‘Italy’
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CHAPTER VI.
1815-1816.
PAGE
Rogers on Poetical Composition—Lines at Meillerie—Letters
from Mackintosh, Coleridge, Uvedale
Price, and William Lisle Bowles—At Lady
Hardwicke’s—The Authorship of ‘Auld
Robin Gray’—Rogers at Lord
Spencer’s—Captain Usher—Paris under
the Allies—Letters from Richard
Sharp—Rogers to his
Sister—Rogers’s Twelfth-night Parties—His Love
of Children—Letters to Richard Sharp
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CHAPTER VII.
1816-1818.
Rogers and Lord Byron—Letter from
Mackintosh—Rogers,
Byron, and
Godwin—Byron’s Appeal to
Rogers—Letter from Walter
Scott—Rogers and
Sheridan—Sheridan’s
Deathbed—Rogers’s Recollections of
Sheridan—Lord John Townshend’s
Letter—Grattan—Lord
Erskine—Ugo Foscolo—Benjamin
Constant at Breakfast—Byron,
Rogers, and Lady Caroline
Lamb—‘Glenarvon’—Rogers at Sydney
Smith’s, at Tom Moore’s, at
Wordsworth’s, at Southey’s, at
the Lakes—Letter from Southey—‘An unfledged
Eagle’—Wordsworth on Bernard
Barton—Rogers and
Crabbe—Crabbe’s Visit to
London—Breakfasts at
Rogers’s—Crabbe,
Moore, Rogers, and
Campbell at Sydenham—The Rev. W. Lisle
Bowles—‘The Abbot of Fonthill’—The Death of the
Princess Charlotte—Lord Bathurst and
the Regent—Story of the Father of George
III.—Letter from Byron—Letter from
Ugo Foscolo on his Literary Plans
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CHAPTER VIII.
1818-1819.
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—Moore 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
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CHAPTER IX.
1820-1821.
PAGE
Rogers’s House—His Love of Harmony—His Literary
Position-Campbell and
Schlegel—Parr and
Mackintosh reconciled—Letters from Walter
Scott—Lady Holland and
Napoleon—Rogers and
Moore in Paris—Rogers and his Sister
and Niece in Switzerland—With Kemble and Mrs.
Siddons at Lausanne—Rogers’s Letters from
Italy—His Meeting with
Byron—Rogers’s Letters from
Rome—With Byron at Pisa—Byron,
Shelley, and
Rogers—Medwin’s
Misrepresentations—Rogers on Byron
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CHAPTER X.
1822-1824.
The First Part of ‘Italy’—Moore and Rogers
in Paris—Wordsworth on his Sister’s
Diary—Dorothy Wordsworth to
Rogers—Wordsworth at
Rogers’s—J. P. Kemble’s
Death—Mrs. Siddons’s
Letter—Rogers and the Duke of
Wellington—Uvedale Price—An English
‘Ginevra’—Walter
Scott’s Remuneration—Southey’s
Letter—Rogers and Lord
Grenville—Lord Grenville on
Dante—Lord Ashburnham’s
Letter—Moore, Wordsworth, and
Rogers—Letter of Miss H. M.
Williams—R. Sharp to
Rogers—Lord Byron’s
Death—Rogers and Byron’s
Memoir—The Funeral—Rogers’s Commonplace
Book—Uvedale Price on Dropmore; on Queen
Caroline’s Oysters—Luttrell on a Greek
Epigram—Letters of Sir J. Mackintosh and Uvedale
Price
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CHAPTER XI.
1825-1827.
Rogers’s Bank—Retirement of Henry
Rogers—Samuel Sharpe a Partner—Letters from
Wordsworth—Rogers’s Advice to
Wordsworth—Wordsworth and his
Publishers—Moore at
Rogers’s—Uvedale Price—The
University of
London—Brougham—Rogers’s
Parties—Sir Thomas Lawrence and Lord
Dudley—Sydney Smith at
Rogers’s—Lord Grenville’s
Inkstand—Letter from Lord
Holland—Rogers with
Wordsworth and Sir George
Beaumont—Sir G. Beaumont’s Last
Letter—Moore and
Rogers—Wordsworth and
Rogers—Rogers in two New
Characters—Appeal to Lord Lansdowne to join the Junction
Ministry—Tom
Grenville—Mackenzie’s Appeal for
R. Pollok—Rogers at Bowood—Letter
from Wordsworth—Rogers at Strathfieldsaye
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