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visit Was over and hs soss to take lsavs.
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bsft Somersstshirs. To Bath" Wa the On.
swss. TO bath - hs said. What ssn take
POO 70 Bath r. "w.li. hsve an aunt thsrs
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body has ~ suat st Bsth-s perfect ant hill. I
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slusssrd. has bsen ringing Ia my sars for .
century: but I've never gone" Sydney Smith.
Il seems. Was accustomed TO avow his inability
70 80 anythins In Wordsworths poetry. and
oas Of Tsylor's friends. Miss Ysnwick. OBJ
serving. There are .oms things which mus.
b spiritually discsrned." the rebuksd parson
avenged himself by aftsrwsrd describins her
- - sensible woman"
The author tells US that Samuel Rogers
only know when no WAS. l should think. more
than 10 ysars of age; and II were to call him
friend. IL Ia only - . hundred others could,
Tor bis friends were 81 many that doubt II he
had any In the fret degree. at least when
knew him." Then. apropos Of Roaerss predi-
lection for dinner giving. and his boast that he
had dined every eminent man Of his time. We
have the following "reminiscences: Il rsmem-
bsr his telling me OF dinner at which Lord
Nelson was one OF his guests. and on tho only
two oooastons on which over mot the Duke OF
Wellington. - one OF few. Rogers WAS tho host.
II was at . pa,tss carrie 1t his house that met
Turner for the nrst and last time. and
there I made the acQusintance Of Tenny-
son." Taylors manner ON this occasion
must have been particularly inislicitous.
for years afterwards Tennyson told .
common friend that hs WAS Just begin
ming to get over Taylor's extreme insolence To
him whom he CTennysonl was young and the
other poet was In his meridian splendor and
glory. 3d." 10 the friends comment. "one
roads your simplicity" Al to Koeers's poems,
We suppose that every one is now prepared to
concur In Taylor's judgment that they would
scarcely have attained to the celebrity they
once enjoyed had they been published at any
other time than In the eighteenth century or
the very beginning Of the nineteenth. But at
that time they may have done something to-
ward giving him the high position In society
which he occupied for half q century. His So
cial talents and his wit did more Through
them he was admired. and. what perhaps avail
cd him equally. he WAS feared. In giving up
bis life to society hs probably made tho
most OF It" That is Wit was perhaps. In
higher reputo than any one else In his time.
except that Of Sydney Smith; but while sgd
ney's Wit was genial and good-humorsd. and
even his mockeriss gave no offence. that OF
Rogers was sarcastic and bitter; and the plea
which have hoard him advance for its bitter
ness WAS In itself satire. 'They toll me say
ill-natured things.' he observed in his slow,
quiet, deliberate way. l have very weak
voice. II did not say ll-nHtured things, no
ono would hear what said 1t was owing to
this weakness Of voice that no candles were
nut on his dinner table. the light being thrown
upon tho walls and pictures. but shaded from
tho room. This did not suit Sydney Smith.
who said that dinner at Rogers's was food
Of light on all above. and below nothing but
darkness and gnashing Of teeth However ono
might be tormented. 1t was not safe TO complain.
remember one victim-it was the widow Of
Sir Humphrey Davy-venturing to do SO. Now.
Mr.. RoGers.' she said. In tone OF aggrisved
expostulation. you are always attacking me-
Attacking you. Lady Dayy waste my life in
defending you."
Sir Henry Taylor thinks that while tho wit OF
Rogers was tho wit Of satire. and that Of sgd
nsy Smith tho wit OF comedy. tho wit OF Whats-
ly. Archbishop Of Dublin. should be described
a. tho wit OF logic Here We NAV note the in
tsresting circumstance not mentioned by tho
author that neither Wha.ely. Newman.
nor Hurrsll Froude. TO whom Oriel COL
lego was 40 deeply indebted for it's transit
tory prestige. had taken tlrst-c class" all be-
Ing notable illustrations Of tho fact that what
Oriel In It's heyday exncted from candidates
Tor fellowships was not technical proficiency,
but originality. That WhatslY was original
enough is certain. OF his personal appear.
ance and dcEoanor we are told that Tho
was OF gigantic si2c. and gaunt aspect with
astranEs Inconsistencies OF tho body; and
what 10 perhaps the next best thing to a per-
feet manner. he had no manner. Wha. his legs
and arms were about was best known TO them.
sslvss." Whom he was Archbishop his rank