John William Cousin, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature… (1910)
“ From his early youth he showed a marked taste for literature and the fine arts, which his wealth enabled him to gratify; and in his later years he was a well-known leader in society and a munificent patron of artists and men of letters, his breakfasts, at which he delighted to assemble celebrities in all departments, being famous. ”
John William Cousin, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature… (1910)
“ The Pleasures of Memory (1792) , Columbus (1810) , Jacqueline (1814) , Human Life (1819) , and Italy (1822) . R. was emphatically the poet of taste, and his writings, while full of allusion and finished description, rarely show passion or intensity of feeling; but are rather the reflections and memory-pictures of a man of high culture and refinement expressed in polished verse. He had considerable powers of conversation and sarcasm. He was offered, but declined, the laureateship. ”
