The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... 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 over to the arts , as to neglect the ...
... 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 over to the arts , as to neglect the ...
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... beautiful didactic poems in our language , if we except Pope's " Essay on Man ; " but so many poetasters have started up , that even the names of Campbell and Rogers are become strange . - Byron's Note . ( with whom he afterwards became ...
... beautiful didactic poems in our language , if we except Pope's " Essay on Man ; " but so many poetasters have started up , that even the names of Campbell and Rogers are become strange . - Byron's Note . ( with whom he afterwards became ...
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... beautiful fancy of Collins , nor the learned and ingenious industry of , Warton , nor even the union of sublime genius with consummate art in Gray , had produced a general change in poetical composition . But the fulness of time was ...
... beautiful fancy of Collins , nor the learned and ingenious industry of , Warton , nor even the union of sublime genius with consummate art in Gray , had produced a general change in poetical composition . But the fulness of time was ...
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... beautiful features of nature , neither exag- gerated nor represented with curious minuteness , but exhibited with picturesque elegance , in connection with those tranquil emotions which they call up in the calm order of a virtuous mind ...
... beautiful features of nature , neither exag- gerated nor represented with curious minuteness , but exhibited with picturesque elegance , in connection with those tranquil emotions which they call up in the calm order of a virtuous mind ...
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... beautiful , it may be doubted whether the verses would not have left a more un- mixed delight , if the address had remained as a mere sport of fancy , without the seriousness of an object , or an application . The verses written in ...
... beautiful , it may be doubted whether the verses would not have left a more un- mixed delight , if the address had remained as a mere sport of fancy , without the seriousness of an object , or an application . The verses written in ...
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