Samuel Rogers

Joanna Baillie , who lived near the Barbaulds in Hampstead, was one of ALB 's greatest friends. In Barbauld's later years her friends included Samuel Rogers , Madame D'Arblay , Eliza Fletcher (who first visited...

On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle

They included public men like George Canning , John Philpot Curran , and Lord Erskine , and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble , George Colman the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays...

GC apparently suffered from hearing difficulties, though the extent of her condition is not known. Samuel Rogers suggested that GC 's good nature was in large part owing to her deafness, for that nobody ventured...

The preface also formulates the idea—which was to permeate MR 's writing for the young, and which is enforced here by quotations from Samuel Rogers (on the title-page) and Francis Bacon (in the text)—of the...

An advertisement (dated 13 April 1810) promises to delineate not only friendship's pleasures but all the great and heroic deeds inspired by it. Even love consists of friendship, when it is abstracted from the...

The young Samuel Rogers sent enthusiastic praise; he said he found ALB 's style easily recognisable. The Monthly Review and Analytical Review were equally laudatory, while, predictably, conservative voices expressed disgust. A country clergyman sent...

Her later poetic endeavours included the publication of Miscellaneous Poems in 1812, a collection printed privately at Windsor which included poems by ECK , William Robert Spencer , Samuel Rogers , and others.

Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld and her brother , Ann Jebb , the future Amelia Opie , Anna Maria Porter , Mary Wollstonecraft and her sister, Mary Hays and her sister, a Mrs Spence who...

This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW , for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...

Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank...

She dedicated the new novel to the Countess of Euston (wife of the future fourth Duke of Grafton; she died while he still held the junior title and had not yet succeeded to the dukedom)...

The popularity of this formula had endured for generations, from Mark Akenside (The Pleasures of Imagination, 1744) and Thomas Warton (The Pleasures of Melancholy, 1747), through Samuel Rogers (The Pleasures...

Critic Harriet Devine Jump feels that CN 's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne contrast in tone with those she wrote later. The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...