The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... nature , and is still checred by the company of younger poets , who regard him with the genial warmth of old friendship . It was the consolation of Campbell , in his declining years , that he had never written a line against religion or ...
... nature , and is still checred by the company of younger poets , who regard him with the genial warmth of old friendship . It was the consolation of Campbell , in his declining years , that he had never written a line against religion or ...
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... nature held back and shrunk from all appear- ances of ostentation and display of talents , yet even then I take credit for discovering a promise of good things to come , and sus- pected him of holding secret commerce with the Muse ...
... nature held back and shrunk from all appear- ances of ostentation and display of talents , yet even then I take credit for discovering a promise of good things to come , and sus- pected him of holding secret commerce with the Muse ...
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... nature to be the critic of this species of poetry . Without more imagination , sensibility or delicacy , than it required , not always with perhaps quite enough for its higher parts , he possessed sagacity , shrewdness , experience ...
... nature to be the critic of this species of poetry . Without more imagination , sensibility or delicacy , than it required , not always with perhaps quite enough for its higher parts , he possessed sagacity , shrewdness , experience ...
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... natural progress of society , the songs which are the effusion of the feelings of a rude tribe are gradually polished into a form of poetry still retaining the marks of the national opinions , sentiments and manners , from which it ...
... natural progress of society , the songs which are the effusion of the feelings of a rude tribe are gradually polished into a form of poetry still retaining the marks of the national opinions , sentiments and manners , from which it ...
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... 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 feeling ...
... 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 feeling ...
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