Reminiscences And Opinions of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle 1813 1885
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Dead or alive, however, he appeared on the face of the globe for many years after composing this epi- gram. During the last two years of his life I saw a good deal of him, as I was much at Brighton, to which place he retired after partially recovering from a severe accident. He had been knocked over by a carriage in the street, or rather had fallen under the imminent peril of being knocked down, and broken his thigh. At his great age, the bone could not reknit itself, so that he never walked ag...ain. Up to that time, old as he was, and ill as he looked, he had been wonderfully active and independent. Though cele- brated for the quickness and neatness of his repartees, ROGERS AS A POET 221 the tinge of bitterness that ran through his conversa- tion made him less agreeable to listen to than Sydney Smith, nor did he possess anything like the same affluence and variety of wit. He was, moreover, a disappointed man ; his poetical success, which, mainly owing to the absence of powerful competitors, was at first very considerable, could not uphold itself against the rush of popularity lifting up Scott and Byron and Campbell far above him ; and long before he died, Wordsworth and Coleridge and Shelley came also to the front ; so that he gradually found him- self somewhat in the position of the pushing Bible guest (except that no blame attached to him person- ally), and began with sadness, though not with shame, 'to take the lowest room.
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Dead or alive, however, he appeared on the face of the globe for many years after composing this epi- gram. During the last two years of his life I saw a good deal of him, as I was much at Brighton, to which place he retired after partially recovering from a severe accident. He had been knocked over by a carriage in the street, or rather had fallen under the imminent peril of being knocked down, and broken his thigh. At his great age, the bone could not reknit itself, so that he never walked ag...ain. Up to that time, old as he was, and ill as he looked, he had been wonderfully active and independent. Though cele- brated for the quickness and neatness of his repartees, ROGERS AS A POET 221 the tinge of bitterness that ran through his conversa- tion made him less agreeable to listen to than Sydney Smith, nor did he possess anything like the same affluence and variety of wit. He was, moreover, a disappointed man ; his poetical success, which, mainly owing to the absence of powerful competitors, was at first very considerable, could not uphold itself against the rush of popularity lifting up Scott and Byron and Campbell far above him ; and long before he died, Wordsworth and Coleridge and Shelley came also to the front ; so that he gradually found him- self somewhat in the position of the pushing Bible guest (except that no blame attached to him person- ally), and began with sadness, though not with shame, 'to take the lowest room.
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