Samuel Sharpe, Egyptologist and Translator of the Bible

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... after his death Moxon and Co. sold off by auction what they had printed, and refused to continue to print them; and it was not till ten years later the demand again revived for them. Very soon after Mr. Rogers's death, indeed, sooner than was quite becoming, Mr. Alexander Dyce published a volume of his conversation under the title of Recollections of the Tabletalk of Samuel Rogers. It was not a judicious book, nor, indeed, well-written. It by no means did justice to Mr. Rogers's conversation. Moreover, it had many mistakes about persons, and gave offence to many. Some of the members of our family felt very sore at it, and went so far as to tell Mr. Dyce so. But I well knew that in taking notes of Mr. Rogers's conversation he was acting with Mr. Rogers's full knowledge and approval, and, moreover, that Mr. Dyce had a sincere regard and respect for him; that the book was well meant, and that its faults were wholly unintentional. And amid the storm of blame that rose against him I made him very happy by telling him so. In 1859 my brother William published a volume of 188 Sharpes Life of Rogers. ch. IX. Notes which Mr. Rogers had left behind him ready for the printer. Soon afterwards I published a biography of Mr. Rogers, as a preface to the volume of his poems. It was of a very few pages, relating to little beyond those particulars of his family and youth which could not be generally known. I made use of all the biographical passages in his poems, but gave no account of that part of his life in which he was well known to the literary and artistic public. Mr. Rogers had been dead four years, and that short time had cooled all curiosity about him. My memoir gained no notice, while four years before, Mr. Dyce's recollections of him had been wholly so...