The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... close , Still through the gloom thy star serenely glows Like yon fair orb she gilds the brow of Night With the mild magic of reflected light . ' " The conclusion of the fine passage on the Veterans at Greenwich and Chelsea has a pensive ...
... close , Still through the gloom thy star serenely glows Like yon fair orb she gilds the brow of Night With the mild magic of reflected light . ' " The conclusion of the fine passage on the Veterans at Greenwich and Chelsea has a pensive ...
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... close the poem : ' Lighter than air , Hope's summer - visions fly , If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play , Lo ! Fancy's fairy frost - work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art , the grasp of ...
... close the poem : ' Lighter than air , Hope's summer - visions fly , If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play , Lo ! Fancy's fairy frost - work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art , the grasp of ...
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... close the active and brilliant course of an epic poem . " It is natural that the Fragments should give a specimen of the marvellous , as well as of the other constituents of epic fiction . We may observe that it is neither the intention ...
... close the active and brilliant course of an epic poem . " It is natural that the Fragments should give a specimen of the marvellous , as well as of the other constituents of epic fiction . We may observe that it is neither the intention ...
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... close , as by the taste and judgment with which they are constructed . " The theme is HUMAN LIFE ! —not only the subject of all verse , ' but the great centre and source of all interest in the works of human beings , to which both verse ...
... close , as by the taste and judgment with which they are constructed . " The theme is HUMAN LIFE ! —not only the subject of all verse , ' but the great centre and source of all interest in the works of human beings , to which both verse ...
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... close of life , and come to act less , and to know and to meditate more , on the varying and crowded scene of human exist- ence . When the inordinate hopes of early youth , which provoke their own disappointment , have been sobered down ...
... close of life , and come to act less , and to know and to meditate more , on the varying and crowded scene of human exist- ence . When the inordinate hopes of early youth , which provoke their own disappointment , have been sobered down ...
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