The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... delighted our ancestors in the time of Luther or Alfred . " During the greater part of the eighteenth century , the connection of the character of English poetry with the state of the country was very easily traced . The period which ...
... delighted our ancestors in the time of Luther or Alfred . " During the greater part of the eighteenth century , the connection of the character of English poetry with the state of the country was very easily traced . The period which ...
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... delighted to describe . The fire with which a chivalrous tale was told made the reader inattentive to negligences in the story or the style . Poetry became more devout , more contemplative , more mystical , more visionary , more alien ...
... delighted to describe . The fire with which a chivalrous tale was told made the reader inattentive to negligences in the story or the style . Poetry became more devout , more contemplative , more mystical , more visionary , more alien ...
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... delightful from very superior beauty , nor striking by singularity , nor powerful from reminding us of terrible passions or memorable deeds . It consists of the more ordinary of the beautiful features of nature , neither exag- gerated ...
... delightful from very superior beauty , nor striking by singularity , nor powerful from reminding us of terrible passions or memorable deeds . It consists of the more ordinary of the beautiful features of nature , neither exag- gerated ...
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... 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 Westminster Abbey are surrounded by dangerous recol- lections ; they aspire to commemorate ...
... 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 Westminster Abbey are surrounded by dangerous recol- lections ; they aspire to commemorate ...
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... delighted . It is to be found in all libraries , and in most parlor windows . " In another part of the review , the critic says , " Endowed with an ear naturally correct , and attuned by practice to the measures of his favorite masters ...
... delighted . It is to be found in all libraries , and in most parlor windows . " In another part of the review , the critic says , " Endowed with an ear naturally correct , and attuned by practice to the measures of his favorite masters ...
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