The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... 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 remembrance still inspire , And strike to wonted tones thy ...
... 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 remembrance still inspire , And strike to wonted tones thy ...
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... give somewhat of an artificial and exotic character to poetry . Jupiter and the Muses appeared in the poems of Christian nations . The feelings and principles of democracies were copied by the gentle- men of Teutonic monarchies or ...
... give somewhat of an artificial and exotic character to poetry . Jupiter and the Muses appeared in the poems of Christian nations . The feelings and principles of democracies were copied by the gentle- men of Teutonic monarchies or ...
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... give a political interest and elevation to the cold- est parts of knowledge , and to those arts which have been hitherto considered as the meanest . Having been forced above their natural place by the wonder at first elicited , they ...
... give a political interest and elevation to the cold- est parts of knowledge , and to those arts which have been hitherto considered as the meanest . Having been forced above their natural place by the wonder at first elicited , they ...
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... give a specimen of the marvellous , as well as of the other constituents of epic fiction . We may observe that it is neither the intention nor the tendency of poetical machinery to supersede secondary causes , to fetter the will , and ...
... give a specimen of the marvellous , as well as of the other constituents of epic fiction . We may observe that it is neither the intention nor the tendency of poetical machinery to supersede secondary causes , to fetter the will , and ...
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... gives us a vivid im- pression in his account of an evening in St. James ' - street . We quote from Moore's Life of Byron : " Among the many gay hours we passed together this spring ( 1813 ) , I remember particularly the wild flow of his ...
... gives us a vivid im- pression in his account of an evening in St. James ' - street . We quote from Moore's Life of Byron : " Among the many gay hours we passed together this spring ( 1813 ) , I remember particularly the wild flow of his ...
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