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The poem abounds with capital and brilliant hits ; with passages which remain on the memory , and may be said to please rather than enchant one , - to take silent possession of the heart , rather than fill it with immediate rapture .
The poem abounds with capital and brilliant hits ; with passages which remain on the memory , and may be said to please rather than enchant one , - to take silent possession of the heart , rather than fill it with immediate rapture .
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I can visit , " said the veteran reminiscent , " the justly - admired author of The Pleasures of Memory , and find myself with a friend who together with the brightest genius possesses elegance of manners and excellence of heart .
I can visit , " said the veteran reminiscent , " the justly - admired author of The Pleasures of Memory , and find myself with a friend who together with the brightest genius possesses elegance of manners and excellence of heart .
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For instance , that on an M.P. who had reviewed his book , and said he wrote very well for a banker : " Ward has no heart , they say , but I deny it ; He has a heart , and gets his speeches by it . " The Quarterly says that Ward would ...
For instance , that on an M.P. who had reviewed his book , and said he wrote very well for a banker : " Ward has no heart , they say , but I deny it ; He has a heart , and gets his speeches by it . " The Quarterly says that Ward would ...
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With the author of The Pleasures of Memory — a banker , a wit , a man of high social reputation — we find it is from the stony heart of the great world that the living waters of a pure and transparent poetry have been ...
With the author of The Pleasures of Memory — a banker , a wit , a man of high social reputation — we find it is from the stony heart of the great world that the living waters of a pure and transparent poetry have been ...
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O ! COULD my mind , unfolded in my page , Enlighten climes , and mould a future age ; There as it glowed , with noblest frenzy fraught Dispense the treasures of exalted thought ; To virtue wake the pulses of the heart , And bid the tear ...
O ! COULD my mind , unfolded in my page , Enlighten climes , and mould a future age ; There as it glowed , with noblest frenzy fraught Dispense the treasures of exalted thought ; To virtue wake the pulses of the heart , And bid the tear ...
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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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