The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... ancient poets struggled against the power of modern sentiments , with various event , in different times and countries , but everywhere in such a manner as to give somewhat of an artificial and exotic character to poetry . Jupiter and ...
... ancient poets struggled against the power of modern sentiments , with various event , in different times and countries , but everywhere in such a manner as to give somewhat of an artificial and exotic character to poetry . Jupiter and ...
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... ancient and national drama . The sublime and energetic feelings of devotion began to be more frequently associated with poetry . The tendency of political speculation concurred in directing the mind of the poet to the intense and ...
... ancient and national drama . The sublime and energetic feelings of devotion began to be more frequently associated with poetry . The tendency of political speculation concurred in directing the mind of the poet to the intense and ...
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... ancient dominions and lawful instruments of rule , and a neglect of that extreme regard to general sympathy , and even accidental prejudice , which is necessary to guard poetical novelties . against their natural enemy , the satirist ...
... ancient dominions and lawful instruments of rule , and a neglect of that extreme regard to general sympathy , and even accidental prejudice , which is necessary to guard poetical novelties . against their natural enemy , the satirist ...
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... ancient and modern sculptures , Greek vases , alternately attract the eye ; and are so arranged , with a judicious regard to their size , in proportion to the place assigned them , that every room is richly and picturesquely ornamented ...
... ancient and modern sculptures , Greek vases , alternately attract the eye ; and are so arranged , with a judicious regard to their size , in proportion to the place assigned them , that every room is richly and picturesquely ornamented ...
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... ancient poets are called to mind , there are likewise whole figures beat out in thin gold leaves . The principal article is a golden circlet , about two and a half inches in diameter , the workmanship of which is as rich and skilful as ...
... ancient poets are called to mind , there are likewise whole figures beat out in thin gold leaves . The principal article is a golden circlet , about two and a half inches in diameter , the workmanship of which is as rich and skilful as ...
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Page 222 - MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Page 325 - Stop at a palace near the Reggio-gate, Dwelt in of old by one of the Orsini. Its noble gardens, terrace above terrace, And rich in fountains, statues, cypresses, Will long detain...
Page 205 - Cabrieres which till then he neglected it is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself he tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects and humbles them at the instant makes them cry complain and repent yea even to hate their...
Page 446 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 205 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 327 - Orsini lived ; and long might'st thou have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find — he knew not what.
Page 56 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night,— but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 404 - Awful memorials, but of whom we know not ! The seaman, passing, gazes from the deck. The buffalo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, Points to the work of magic and moves on. Time was they stood along the crowded street, Temples of gods ! and on their ample steps What various habits, various tongues, beset The brazen gates for prayer and sacrifice...
Page 207 - ... labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 28 - Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.