The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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s walk , and Queen Elizabeth's walk , all in the vicinity ; and this old , quiet green seems to retain a feeling and an aspect of those times . It is built round with houses , evidently of a considerable age .
s walk , and Queen Elizabeth's walk , all in the vicinity ; and this old , quiet green seems to retain a feeling and an aspect of those times . It is built round with houses , evidently of a considerable age .
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This is apparent in every page of his compositions ; nay , he is even fastidious in his taste , and rejects much , in the pictures of manners and feelings which he paints , which other authors , whose taste is unquestioned , would have ...
This is apparent in every page of his compositions ; nay , he is even fastidious in his taste , and rejects much , in the pictures of manners and feelings which he paints , which other authors , whose taste is unquestioned , would have ...
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Geometry is the same , not only at London and Paris , but in the extremes of Athens and Samarcand ; but the state of the general feeling in England , at this moment , requires a different poetry from that which delighted our ancestors ...
Geometry is the same , not only at London and Paris , but in the extremes of Athens and Samarcand ; but the state of the general feeling in England , at this moment , requires a different poetry from that which delighted our ancestors ...
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“ In the natural progress of society , the songs which are the effusion of the feelings of a rude tribe are gradually polished into a form of poetry still retaining the marks of the national opinions , sentiments and manners ...
“ In the natural progress of society , the songs which are the effusion of the feelings of a rude tribe are gradually polished into a form of poetry still retaining the marks of the national opinions , sentiments and manners ...
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The feelings and principles of democracies were copied by the gentlemen of Teutonic monarchies or aristocracies . ... of chivalrous fancy and feeling with classical pedantry ; but , upon the whole , its native genius was unsubdued .
The feelings and principles of democracies were copied by the gentlemen of Teutonic monarchies or aristocracies . ... of chivalrous fancy and feeling with classical pedantry ; but , upon the whole , its native genius was unsubdued .
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| Title | The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes British poets Making of America |
| Author | Samuel Rogers |
| Editor | Epes Sargent |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Mar 2010 |
| Length | 460 pages |
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