The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... and in every temper of mind that varied company and varied scenery could produce . " To the spirit of original observation , " says Mr. Allan Cunningham of this poem , in his History of British Literature , " to the fine pictures of ...
... and in every temper of mind that varied company and varied scenery could produce . " To the spirit of original observation , " says Mr. Allan Cunningham of this poem , in his History of British Literature , " to the fine pictures of ...
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This eulogy Moore thinks the disinterested and deliberate result of the young poet's judgment , as at that time he had never seen Rogers * It would be superfluous to recall to the mind of the reader the authors of " The Pleasures of ...
This eulogy Moore thinks the disinterested and deliberate result of the young poet's judgment , as at that time he had never seen Rogers * It would be superfluous to recall to the mind of the reader the authors of " The Pleasures of ...
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... the vicissitudes of the elegant arts can be referred to the operation of general laws , with the same plausibility as the exertions of the more robust faculties of the human mind , in the severer forms of science and of useful art .
... the vicissitudes of the elegant arts can be referred to the operation of general laws , with the same plausibility as the exertions of the more robust faculties of the human mind , in the severer forms of science and of useful art .
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The deformities of the Life of Gray ought not to be ascribed to jealousy , for Johnson's mind , though coarse , was not mean , - but to the prejudices of his university , his political faction , and his poetical sect ; and this last ...
The deformities of the Life of Gray ought not to be ascribed to jealousy , for Johnson's mind , though coarse , was not mean , - but to the prejudices of his university , his political faction , and his poetical sect ; and this last ...
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The tendency of political speculation concurred in directing the mind of the poet to the intense and undisguised passions of the uneducated , which fastidious politeness had excluded from the subjects of poetical imitation .
The tendency of political speculation concurred in directing the mind of the poet to the intense and undisguised passions of the uneducated , which fastidious politeness had excluded from the subjects of poetical imitation .
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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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