The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... form so hand- some that everybody might be pleased to possess it , and so cheap that anybody might be able to buy . We have thrown together , in a prefatory memoir , such materials for the per- sonal and literary life of the author as ...
... form so hand- some that everybody might be pleased to possess it , and so cheap that anybody might be able to buy . We have thrown together , in a prefatory memoir , such materials for the per- sonal and literary life of the author as ...
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... form- ing part of London , about the year 1763 , and is now ( 1854 ) upwards of ninety - one years of age . His birth - place was in a local- ity distinguished by many associations of interest . " In this neigh- borhood , " says William ...
... form- ing part of London , about the year 1763 , and is now ( 1854 ) upwards of ninety - one years of age . His birth - place was in a local- ity distinguished by many associations of interest . " In this neigh- borhood , " says William ...
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... forms of science and of useful art . The action of fancy and of taste seems to be affected by causes too various and minute to be enumerated with sufficent completeness for the purposes of philosophical theory . To explain them , may ...
... forms of science and of useful art . The action of fancy and of taste seems to be affected by causes too various and minute to be enumerated with sufficent completeness for the purposes of philosophical theory . To explain them , may ...
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... 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 are still the native produce of the soil . The only ...
... 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 are still the native produce of the soil . The only ...
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... form was prevalent ; and where the forms were classical , the spirit continued to be romantic . The structure of Tasso's poem was that of the Grecian epic ; but his heroes were Christian knights . French poetry , having been somewhat ...
... form was prevalent ; and where the forms were classical , the spirit continued to be romantic . The structure of Tasso's poem was that of the Grecian epic ; but his heroes were Christian knights . French poetry , having been somewhat ...
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