The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... less charming , than his poem above mentioned . " In November , 1805 , Moore wrote to his mother , " I am just going to dine third to Rogers and Cumberland : a good poetical step- ladder we make ; the former is past forty , and the ...
... less charming , than his poem above mentioned . " In November , 1805 , Moore wrote to his mother , " I am just going to dine third to Rogers and Cumberland : a good poetical step- ladder we make ; the former is past forty , and the ...
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... less eminent as a man of letters and a critic , pronounced his judgment of its merits in the Edinburgh Review for October , 1813 ; and we feel that we cannot better occupy the pages we have reserved for a literary memoir of the poet ...
... less eminent as a man of letters and a critic , pronounced his judgment of its merits in the Edinburgh Review for October , 1813 ; and we feel that we cannot better occupy the pages we have reserved for a literary memoir of the poet ...
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... less natural , - more timid and more imitative , -more like a feeble translation of Roman poetry . The first age of English poetry , in the reign of Elizabeth , displayed a combination , fantastic enough , of chivalrous fancy and ...
... less natural , - more timid and more imitative , -more like a feeble translation of Roman poetry . The first age of English poetry , in the reign of Elizabeth , displayed a combination , fantastic enough , of chivalrous fancy and ...
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... ennobled by that eminently poetical art which ascribes it either to the Supreme Will , or to the agency of beings who are greater than - human . The wisdom of Columbus is neither less venerable 3 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS . 25.
... ennobled by that eminently poetical art which ascribes it either to the Supreme Will , or to the agency of beings who are greater than - human . The wisdom of Columbus is neither less venerable 3 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS . 25.
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... less venerable nor less his own because it is supposed to flow more directly than that of other wise men from the inspiration of heaven . The mutiny of his seamen is not less interesting or formidable because the poet traces it to the ...
... less venerable nor less his own because it is supposed to flow more directly than that of other wise men from the inspiration of heaven . The mutiny of his seamen is not less interesting or formidable because the poet traces it to the ...
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