The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel RogersPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 460 pages |
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... passed away ; but the ven- erable bard still lives , to enjoy the society he adorns , and the fame which brightens with his years . He has taken leave of Byron , and Campbell , and Moore , and all his po- etical rivals and ...
... passed away ; but the ven- erable bard still lives , to enjoy the society he adorns , and the fame which brightens with his years . He has taken leave of Byron , and Campbell , and Moore , and all his po- etical rivals and ...
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... by resistance to them . It borrowed no aid either from prejudice or innovation . It neither copied the fashion of the age which was passing away , nor offered any homage to the rising novelties . It resembles 20 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
... by resistance to them . It borrowed no aid either from prejudice or innovation . It neither copied the fashion of the age which was passing away , nor offered any homage to the rising novelties . It resembles 20 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
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... passed in the most mountainous solitudes of Scotland , without meeting some who are worthy to be remembered with the sublime objects of nature which they had travelled so far to admire . " The most conspicuous of the novelties of this ...
... passed in the most mountainous solitudes of Scotland , without meeting some who are worthy to be remembered with the sublime objects of nature which they had travelled so far to admire . " The most conspicuous of the novelties of this ...
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... passed that period of probation during which it may be excusable to feel some painful solicitude about the reception of every new work . Whatever may be the rank assigned hereafter to his writings , when compared with each other , the ...
... passed that period of probation during which it may be excusable to feel some painful solicitude about the reception of every new work . Whatever may be the rank assigned hereafter to his writings , when compared with each other , the ...
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... passed together this spring ( 1813 ) , I remember particularly the wild flow of his spirits one evening , when we had accompanied Mr. Rogers home from some early assembly , and when Lord Byron , who , according to his fre- quent custom ...
... passed together this spring ( 1813 ) , I remember particularly the wild flow of his spirits one evening , when we had accompanied Mr. Rogers home from some early assembly , and when Lord Byron , who , according to his fre- quent custom ...
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admirable Æschylus age to age ancient beautiful blessed blest breathe bright called CANTO charm child Cicero clouds Columbus cried dark delight dream earth EPES SARGENT Euripides eyes father fear feeling fled flowers forever gaze genius GENOA glows gone grave grove hand heard heart heaven Hist holy hour inspire Italy light live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Holland Lord Landsdowne Madame de Staël Memory mind musing nature night o'er once passed Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Rembrandt rise Rogers round sacred sail Samuel Rogers sate says scene seen shade shifting sail shine shore sigh silent sing sitting sleep smile song soon soul spirit stood sung sweet taste tears thee thine things thou thought Titian triumphs turned VENICE verse voice wander wave weep whence wild wind wings young youth
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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.