The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... genius and taste . Perhaps in the whole list of living men of genius no one can be named whose taste in poetry is so just and delicate . This is apparent in every page of his compositions ; nay , he is even fastidious in his taste , and ...
... genius and taste . Perhaps in the whole list of living men of genius no one can be named whose taste in poetry is so just and delicate . This is apparent in every page of his compositions ; nay , he is even fastidious in his taste , and ...
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... genius possesses elegance of manners and excellence of heart . He tells me he remembers the day of our first meeting at Mr. Dilly's ; I also remember it , and , though his modest , unassuming nature held back and shrunk from all appear ...
... genius possesses elegance of manners and excellence of heart . He tells me he remembers the day of our first meeting at Mr. Dilly's ; I also remember it , and , though his modest , unassuming nature held back and shrunk from all appear ...
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... genius ! let me turn to you . Come forth , O Campbell ! * give thy talents scope ; Who dares aspire if thou must cease to hope ? And thou , melodious Rogers ! rise at last - Recall the pleasing memory of the past . Arise ! let blest ...
... genius ! let me turn to you . Come forth , O Campbell ! * give thy talents scope ; Who dares aspire if thou must cease to hope ? And thou , melodious Rogers ! rise at last - Recall the pleasing memory of the past . Arise ! let blest ...
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... genius . In such an age , every art becomes rational . Reason is the power which presides in a calm . But reason guides , rather than impels ; and , though it must regulate every exertion of genius , it never can rouse it to vigorous ...
... genius . In such an age , every art becomes rational . Reason is the power which presides in a calm . But reason guides , rather than impels ; and , though it must regulate every exertion of genius , it never can rouse it to vigorous ...
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... genius with consummate art in Gray , had produced a general change in poetical composition . But the fulness of time was approaching ; and a revolution has been accomplished , of which the commencement nearly coincides - not , as we ...
... genius with consummate art in Gray , had produced a general change in poetical composition . But the fulness of time was approaching ; and a revolution has been accomplished , of which the commencement nearly coincides - not , as we ...
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