The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... death of Goldsmith and the rise of Cowper is perhaps more barren than any other twelve years in the history of our poetry since the accession of Elizabeth . It seemed as if the fertile soil was at length exhausted . But it had in fact ...
... death of Goldsmith and the rise of Cowper is perhaps more barren than any other twelve years in the history of our poetry since the accession of Elizabeth . It seemed as if the fertile soil was at length exhausted . But it had in fact ...
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... death , - " To - day I dined with Rogers ( the poet ) . A very pleasant dinner with Crabbe ( whom I had never before seen ) , Frere and Jekyll . ” An extract from the diary of Wilberforce shows that he did not think so well of this ...
... death , - " To - day I dined with Rogers ( the poet ) . A very pleasant dinner with Crabbe ( whom I had never before seen ) , Frere and Jekyll . ” An extract from the diary of Wilberforce shows that he did not think so well of this ...
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... death . During the revolution , Mr. Champernowne brought it from the Balbi Palace , at Genoa . It is three feet high , and five feet five inches wide . " The study for the celebrated picture , the Terrors of War , in the Pitti Palace ...
... death . During the revolution , Mr. Champernowne brought it from the Balbi Palace , at Genoa . It is three feet high , and five feet five inches wide . " The study for the celebrated picture , the Terrors of War , in the Pitti Palace ...
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... death , that sums of money which had been supposed to come from other high quarters to minister to his by no means slender wants were in reality contributed by Rogers . From an article entitled Gore House , published in the New Monthly ...
... death , that sums of money which had been supposed to come from other high quarters to minister to his by no means slender wants were in reality contributed by Rogers . From an article entitled Gore House , published in the New Monthly ...
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... ; Then steal away , give little warning , Choose thine own time ; Say not good - night , but , in some happier clime , Bid me good - morning . ' It makes the thought of death cheerful to represent it 56 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
... ; Then steal away , give little warning , Choose thine own time ; Say not good - night , but , in some happier clime , Bid me good - morning . ' It makes the thought of death cheerful to represent it 56 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
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