The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... appeared in shape of one of the most beautiful and harmonious poems in our language . I do not say that he has not ornamented the age he lives in , though he were to stop where he is ; but I hope he will not so totally deliver himself ...
... appeared in shape of one of the most beautiful and harmonious poems in our language . I do not say that he has not ornamented the age he lives in , though he were to stop where he is ; but I hope he will not so totally deliver himself ...
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... appearance , Sir James Mackintosh had begged to be particularly remembered to Rogers , and added , " I hope Colum- bus ... appeared , the great whig jurist and statesman , no less eminent as a man of letters and a critic , pronounced his ...
... appearance , Sir James Mackintosh had begged to be particularly remembered to Rogers , and added , " I hope Colum- bus ... appeared , the great whig jurist and statesman , no less eminent as a man of letters and a critic , pronounced his ...
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... appeared in the poems of Christian nations . The feelings and principles of democracies were copied by the gentle- men of Teutonic monarchies or aristocracies . The sentiments of the poet in his verse were not those which actuated him ...
... appeared in the poems of Christian nations . The feelings and principles of democracies were copied by the gentle- men of Teutonic monarchies or aristocracies . The sentiments of the poet in his verse were not those which actuated him ...
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... appeared in the contemplations in which the poet indulged , and in the events and scenes which he delighted to describe . The fire with which a chivalrous tale was told made the reader inattentive to negligences in the story or the ...
... appeared in the contemplations in which the poet indulged , and in the events and scenes which he delighted to describe . The fire with which a chivalrous tale was told made the reader inattentive to negligences in the story or the ...
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... appeared at the commencement of this literary revolution , without paying court to the revolutionary tastes , or seeking distinction by resistance to them . It borrowed no aid either from prejudice or innovation . It neither copied the ...
... appeared at the commencement of this literary revolution , without paying court to the revolutionary tastes , or seeking distinction by resistance to them . It borrowed no aid either from prejudice or innovation . It neither copied the ...
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