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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Samuel Rogers to Richard Sharp, [1810?]
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Vol. I Contents
Chapter I. 1803-1805.
Chapter II. 1805-1809.
Chapter III. 1810-1812.
Chapter IV. 1813-1814.
Chapter V. 1814-1815.
Chapter VI. 1815-1816.
Chapter VII. 1816-1818.
Chapter VIII. 1818-19.
Chapter IX. 1820-1821.
Chapter X. 1822-24.
Chapter XI. 1825-1827.
Vol. II Contents
Chapter I. 1828-1830.
Chapter II. 1831-34.
Chapter III. 1834-1837.
Chapter IV. 1838-41.
Chapter V. 1842-44.
Chapter VI. 1845-46.
Chapter VII. 1847-50.
Chapter VIII. 1850
Chapter IX. 1851.
Chapter X. 1852-55.
Index
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‘My dear Friend,—The alterations are all good, but I confess there is a strength of expression in the line—
And weeds soon hide his unfrequented tomb,
which I should be sorry to part with.

‘I may be wrong, but I think Pope or Dryden might have written the following—
He dies—no traces from oblivion save,
And weeds soon hide his unfrequented grave.
But they are all good, and you cannot choose amiss. Your last reading is certainly most artist-like; but there is more feeling, I think, more forlornness, in the last line as it stood at first.

‘Ever yours,
‘S. R.

‘I am rather for “mourn his doom,” I don’t know why, than “weep his doom.” Perhaps after all I like this best—
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He dies and is forgot—none mourn his doom,
And weeds soon hide his unfrequented tomb.’1