The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... manners , and to the remarks on the social and domestic condition of the country , which mark the disciples of the newer school of verse , are added the terseness , smoothness and harmony , of the old . The poem abounds with capital and ...
... manners , and to the remarks on the social and domestic condition of the country , which mark the disciples of the newer school of verse , are added the terseness , smoothness and harmony , of the old . The poem abounds with capital and ...
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... manners and excellence of heart . He tells me he remembers the day of our first meeting at Mr. Dilly's ; I also remember it , and , though his modest , unassuming nature held back and shrunk from all appear- ances of ostentation and ...
... manners and excellence of heart . He tells me he remembers the day of our first meeting at Mr. Dilly's ; I also remember it , and , though his modest , unassuming nature held back and shrunk from all appear- ances of ostentation and ...
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... manners of the refined class , as certainly , though not in so great a degree , as with the passions of the multitude . The comedy of a polished monarchy never can be of the same character with that of a bold and tumultuous democracy ...
... manners of the refined class , as certainly , though not in so great a degree , as with the passions of the multitude . The comedy of a polished monarchy never can be of the same character with that of a bold and tumultuous democracy ...
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... manners mild beyond the example of any former age . The English nation , which possessed the greatest of all human blessings , a wisely constructed popular government , necessarily enjoyed the largest share of every other benefit . The ...
... manners mild beyond the example of any former age . The English nation , which possessed the greatest of all human blessings , a wisely constructed popular government , necessarily enjoyed the largest share of every other benefit . The ...
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... manners , morality and prudence , as well as imagery and passion . Johnson did , indeed , perform a vigorous act of reluctant justice towards Milton ; but it was a proof , to use his own words , that 6 - At length our mighty bard's ...
... manners , morality and prudence , as well as imagery and passion . Johnson did , indeed , perform a vigorous act of reluctant justice towards Milton ; but it was a proof , to use his own words , that 6 - At length our mighty bard's ...
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