The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... effect , and the passionate eccentricities , of some of our more recent schools of verse , and recur with fresh pleasure to pages that are marked everywhere with sim- plicity , refinement , and tranquil beauty . It has been our object ...
... effect , and the passionate eccentricities , of some of our more recent schools of verse , and recur with fresh pleasure to pages that are marked everywhere with sim- plicity , refinement , and tranquil beauty . It has been our object ...
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... effects on literature become more visible . The desire of strong emotion succeeded to the solicitude to avoid disgust . Fic- tions , both dramatic and narrative , were formed according to the school of Rousseau and Goethe . The mixture ...
... effects on literature become more visible . The desire of strong emotion succeeded to the solicitude to avoid disgust . Fic- tions , both dramatic and narrative , were formed according to the school of Rousseau and Goethe . The mixture ...
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... effect , and whose figures stand out , in bold relief , from the general roughness of their more unfinished compositions ; and in the moral parts there is often discoverable a Virgilian art , which suggests , rather than displays , the ...
... effect , and whose figures stand out , in bold relief , from the general roughness of their more unfinished compositions ; and in the moral parts there is often discoverable a Virgilian art , which suggests , rather than displays , the ...
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... effects since the establish- ment of civilization , and the consequent commencement of authentic history . But the poetical capabilities of an event bear no proportion to historical importance . None of the consequences that do not ...
... effects since the establish- ment of civilization , and the consequent commencement of authentic history . But the poetical capabilities of an event bear no proportion to historical importance . None of the consequences that do not ...
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... effects on the state of men ; but their poetical interest does not arise from these effects , and it immeasurably surpasses them . " Whether the voyage of Columbus be destined to be forever inca- pable of becoming the subject of an epic ...
... effects on the state of men ; but their poetical interest does not arise from these effects , and it immeasurably surpasses them . " Whether the voyage of Columbus be destined to be forever inca- pable of becoming the subject of an epic ...
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