The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... feeling and an aspect of those times . It is built round with houses , evidently of a considerable age . There are trees and quietness about it still . In the centre of the south side is an old house standing back , which is said to ...
... feeling and an aspect of those times . It is built round with houses , evidently of a considerable age . There are trees and quietness about it still . In the centre of the south side is an old house standing back , which is said to ...
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... feelings which he paints , which other authors , whose taste is unquestioned , would have used without scruple . His diction is pure , and his language has all the necessary strength , without being swelling or redundant : his words are ...
... feelings which he paints , which other authors , whose taste is unquestioned , would have used without scruple . His diction is pure , and his language has all the necessary strength , without being swelling or redundant : his words are ...
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... feeling in England , at this moment , requires a different poetry from that 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 ...
... feeling in England , at this moment , requires a different poetry from that 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 ...
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... feelings of a rude tribe are gradually polished into a form of poetry still retaining the marks of the national opinions , sentiments and manners , from which it originally sprung . The plants are im- proved by cultivation ; but they ...
... feelings of a rude tribe are gradually polished into a form of poetry still retaining the marks of the national opinions , sentiments and manners , from which it originally sprung . The plants are im- proved by cultivation ; but they ...
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... feelings and principles of democracies were copied by the gentle- men of Teutonic monarchies or aristocracies . The ... feeling with classical pedantry ; but , upon the whole , its native genius was unsubdued . The poems of that age ...
... feelings and principles of democracies were copied by the gentle- men of Teutonic monarchies or aristocracies . The ... feeling with classical pedantry ; but , upon the whole , its native genius was unsubdued . The poems of that age ...
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