The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... nature , and is still cheered by the company of younger poets , who regard him with the genial warmth of old friendship . It was the consolation of Campbell , in his declining years , that he had never written a line against religion or ...
... nature , and is still cheered by the company of younger poets , who regard him with the genial warmth of old friendship . It was the consolation of Campbell , in his declining years , that he had never written a line against religion or ...
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... nature held back and shrunk from all appear- ances of ostentation and display of talents , yet even then I take credit for discovering a promise of good things to come , and sus- pected him of holding secret commerce with the Muse ...
... nature held back and shrunk from all appear- ances of ostentation and display of talents , yet even then I take credit for discovering a promise of good things to come , and sus- pected him of holding secret commerce with the Muse ...
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... nature to be the critic of this species of poetry . Without more imagination , sensibility or delicacy , than it required , not always with perhaps quite enough for its higher parts , he possessed sagacity , shrewdness , experience ...
... nature to be the critic of this species of poetry . Without more imagination , sensibility or delicacy , than it required , not always with perhaps quite enough for its higher parts , he possessed sagacity , shrewdness , experience ...
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... natural progress of society , the songs which are the effusion of the feelings of a rude tribe are gradually polished into a form of poetry still retaining the marks of the national opinions , sentiments and manners , from which it ...
... natural progress of society , the songs which are the effusion of the feelings of a rude tribe are gradually polished into a form of poetry still retaining the marks of the national opinions , sentiments and manners , from which it ...
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... natural , more timid and more imitative , more like a feeble translation of Roman poetry . The first age of English poetry , in the reign of Elizabeth , displayed a combination , fantastic enough , of chivalrous fancy and feeling with ...
... natural , more timid and more imitative , more like a feeble translation of Roman poetry . The first age of English poetry , in the reign of Elizabeth , displayed a combination , fantastic enough , of chivalrous fancy and feeling with ...
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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.