. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . erty with his pen. lie died at an advanced age in 1832. Samuel Rogers was a poet of a different stamp. Born in 1762,and living to the age of ninety and upwards, he connects the era ofJohnson with our own. He was a banker, and the son of a banker,and passed his life surrounded with the appliances of wealth andluxury, and in intimate association with all the genius and talent ofthree generations. His chief work is The Pleasures of Memory,which, like all his writings, is characterized by cl
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . erty with his pen. lie died at an advanced age in 1832. Samuel Rogers was a poet of a different stamp. Born in 1762,and living to the age of ninety and upwards, he connects the era ofJohnson with our own. He was a banker, and the son of a banker,and passed his life surrounded with the appliances of wealth andluxury, and in intimate association with all the genius and talent ofthree generations. His chief work is The Pleasures of Memory,which, like all his writings, is characterized by classical elegance,and a too careful simplicity of style, united with extreme polish andfinish. Rogers was a man of refined and educated taste, which hewas enabled to gratify by the most lavish expenditure; and hefilled his dwelling with the most exquisite productions of modern art, gathered from the stores of all Europe. Hishabits were eccentric, and his sarcasm more biting and bitter thanit was just or discriminating. He died in 1856. Of all the poets of our own day, William Wordsworth seem. 2545.—JSorwood Cemetery.
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