Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . erociousfrankness inspired terror. But in spite of surface crabbedness he was philanthropic and personally was a faithful friend not alone to Sheridan through his wretchedlast years of poverty, but to many another unfortunate, author or appreciative rather than creative, the practical adviser ofWordsworth and the other <( Lake poets,w as well as their admiringauditor, he was the friend of poets to a greater extent than a con-siderable poet himself. Perhaps his greatest hindrance was his con-tinuous prosperit
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . erociousfrankness inspired terror. But in spite of surface crabbedness he was philanthropic and personally was a faithful friend not alone to Sheridan through his wretchedlast years of poverty, but to many another unfortunate, author or appreciative rather than creative, the practical adviser ofWordsworth and the other <( Lake poets,w as well as their admiringauditor, he was the friend of poets to a greater extent than a con-siderable poet himself. Perhaps his greatest hindrance was his con-tinuous prosperity. From the beginning to the end of his life he wasquite too comfortable for poetic thrills. His poems have no intensity;they are gentle moralizings and appreciations of moral and physicalbeauty,— the fruit more of refinement and cultivation than of irresist-ible poetic impulse, — and bear no very strong individual stamp. There is idyllic charm about Rogerss early life. Fortunate son ofa loving if austere father and a beautiful sprightly mother, he was. Samuel Rogers T2^46 SAMUEL ROGERS born at Stoke Newington, a suburb of London, on July 30th, parents were people of refined and liberal tastes, who constantlyreceived in their hospitable mansion a circle of delightful friends,among them Dr. Priestley. There with his brothers and sisters, tenin all, Samuel was carefully trained by private tutors. Good , the clergyman, dropping in of an evening in dressing-gownand slippers to chat with the children before their bedtime, was animportant factor in their daily life. At this .home Rogers learned toappreciate social intercourse; and there in leisure hours he poredover Pope and Goldsmith, and took their poems as models. Whenhe was sixteen or seventeen his father placed him in the Londonbank of which he himself was head; and he remained in connectionwith it all his life, as clerk, partner, or director. In London he founda helpful friend in Miss Helen Williams, an int
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