The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... length our mighty bard's victorious lays Fill the loud voice of universal praise ; And baffled Spite , with hopeless anguish dumb , Yields to renown the centuries to come . ' ---- The deformities of the Life of Gray ought not to be ...
... length our mighty bard's victorious lays Fill the loud voice of universal praise ; And baffled Spite , with hopeless anguish dumb , Yields to renown the centuries to come . ' ---- The deformities of the Life of Gray ought not to be ...
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... length exhausted . But it had in fact only ceased to exhibit its accustomed produce . The estab- lished poetry had worn out either its own resources , or the constancy of its readers . Former attempts to introduce novelty had been ...
... length exhausted . But it had in fact only ceased to exhibit its accustomed produce . The estab- lished poetry had worn out either its own resources , or the constancy of its readers . Former attempts to introduce novelty had been ...
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... length destined , after an interval of many silent and inglorious ages , to awaken the genius of a poet . Full of enthusiasm for those perfect forms of heroism and liberty which his imagination had placed in the recesses of antiquity ...
... length destined , after an interval of many silent and inglorious ages , to awaken the genius of a poet . Full of enthusiasm for those perfect forms of heroism and liberty which his imagination had placed in the recesses of antiquity ...
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... length portrait of his lordship , by Sanders , was presented to him . " You are one of the few per- sons , " Byron wrote to him in March , 1816 , " with whom I have lived in what is called intimacy . " " It is a considerable time ...
... length portrait of his lordship , by Sanders , was presented to him . " You are one of the few per- sons , " Byron wrote to him in March , 1816 , " with whom I have lived in what is called intimacy . " " It is a considerable time ...
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... length lighted on the discovery that our host , in addition to his sincere approbation of some of its con- tents , had also the motive of gratitude for standing by its author , as one of the poems was a warm , and , I need not add ...
... length lighted on the discovery that our host , in addition to his sincere approbation of some of its con- tents , had also the motive of gratitude for standing by its author , as one of the poems was a warm , and , I need not add ...
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