The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... 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 were ...
... 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 were ...
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... hand of a master . " Six years afterwards he published The Pleasures of Memory , a poem that attained an immediate popularity , both in England and in this country . This poem was elaborated with the most consummate care and art . He ...
... hand of a master . " Six years afterwards he published The Pleasures of Memory , a poem that attained an immediate popularity , both in England and in this country . This poem was elaborated with the most consummate care and art . He ...
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... hand . When the brilliant and poignant lines of Pope began to pall on the public ear , it was natural that we should revert to the cultivation of our indigenous poetry . " Nor was this the sole , or perhaps the chief agent which was ...
... hand . When the brilliant and poignant lines of Pope began to pall on the public ear , it was natural that we should revert to the cultivation of our indigenous poetry . " Nor was this the sole , or perhaps the chief agent which was ...
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... hand , and the dogmatical contempt of criticism natural to the pride and enthusiasm of the innovator , combine to expose him to ridicule , and generally termi- nate in his being admired ( though warmly ) by a few of his contem- poraries ...
... hand , and the dogmatical contempt of criticism natural to the pride and enthusiasm of the innovator , combine to expose him to ridicule , and generally termi- nate in his being admired ( though warmly ) by a few of his contem- poraries ...
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... hand have been pronounced to be unmanageable . Perhaps the genius of Shakspeare and of Milton has rather compensated for the incorri- gible defects of ungrateful subjects , than conquered them . The course of ages may produce the ...
... hand have been pronounced to be unmanageable . Perhaps the genius of Shakspeare and of Milton has rather compensated for the incorri- gible defects of ungrateful subjects , than conquered them . The course of ages may produce the ...
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