The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... Lost , To the Butterfly , An Epitaph on a Robin - redbreast , To the Fragment of a Statue of Hercules , To ... The Boy of Egremond , Written in the Highlands of Scotland , On ... Asleep , An Inscription in the Crimea , An Inscription ...
... Lost , To the Butterfly , An Epitaph on a Robin - redbreast , To the Fragment of a Statue of Hercules , To ... The Boy of Egremond , Written in the Highlands of Scotland , On ... Asleep , An Inscription in the Crimea , An Inscription ...
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... lost its ancient characteristic principles , and was fully imbued with classical ideas . Hence it acquired faultless elegance ; hence also it became less natural , - more timid and more imitative , -more like a feeble translation of ...
... lost its ancient characteristic principles , and was fully imbued with classical ideas . Hence it acquired faultless elegance ; hence also it became less natural , - more timid and more imitative , -more like a feeble translation of ...
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... Lost , would before- 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 ...
... Lost , would before- 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 ...
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... Lost , where all is supernatural , and where the ancestors of the human race are not strictly human beings , it must be owned that no successful attempt has been made to ally a human action with the sublimer principles of the Christian ...
... Lost , where all is supernatural , and where the ancestors of the human race are not strictly human beings , it must be owned that no successful attempt has been made to ally a human action with the sublimer principles of the Christian ...
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... Lost , ' emphatic symbol of the uncertainty of fame ; a sketch of Stonehenge by Turner , provoca- tive of endless discussion to artist and antiquary ; bronzes , medals and choice volumes , whose very names would inspire an affluent ...
... Lost , ' emphatic symbol of the uncertainty of fame ; a sketch of Stonehenge by Turner , provoca- tive of endless discussion to artist and antiquary ; bronzes , medals and choice volumes , whose very names would inspire an affluent ...
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