. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... t biot out the discourses in whichHe took leave of His disciples, the majestic accents ofwhich have filled so \iu\\\\ .uspairing souis patience 368 HENRY ROGERS and with triumph. They must blot out the yet sublimerwords in which He declares himself the Resurrectionand the Life —words which have led so many millionsmore to breathe out their spirits with childlike trust. It is in vain to tel
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... t biot out the discourses in whichHe took leave of His disciples, the majestic accents ofwhich have filled so \iu\\\\ .uspairing souis patience 368 HENRY ROGERS and with triumph. They must blot out the yet sublimerwords in which He declares himself the Resurrectionand the Life —words which have led so many millionsmore to breathe out their spirits with childlike trust. It is in vain to tell men it is an illusion. If it be anillusion, every variety of experiment proves it to be in-veterate ; and it will not be dissipated by a million ofStrausses and Newmans. Frobatum est. At His feetguilty humanity, of diverse races and nations, for eigh-teen hundred years, has come to pour forth in faith andlove its sorrows, and finds there the peace which theworld can neither give nor take away, Myriads ofaching heads and weary hearts have found, and willfind, repose there ; and have invested Him with ven-eration, love, and gratitude which will never, never, bepaid to any other name than ROGERS, Samuel, an English poet, born atStoke Newington, July 30, 1763; died in London,December 18, 1855. His father was an eminentoanker, into whose counting-house the son earlyentered. The father, dying in 1793, left an amplefortune to his son, who retired from active partic-ipation in the business of the house, but retainedan interest in it as partner. Ten years after-ward Rogers established his residence in London,and his breakfasts were for half a century fre-quented by all men noted in literature and art whocould obtain an invitation to them. Rogers com-menced writing in the Gentleman s Magazine at theage of eighteen. His principal poems are ThePleasures of Memory {ijg2)\ Jacqueline, publishedin the same volume with Byrons Lara (1814);Human Life (1819); //«/;/(Part L, 1821 ; Part
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