The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... Perhaps in the whole list of living men of genius no one can be named whose taste in poetry is so just and delicate . This is apparent in every page of his compositions ; nay , he is even fastidious in his taste , and rejects much , in ...
... Perhaps in the whole list of living men of genius no one can be named whose taste in poetry is so just and delicate . This is apparent in every page of his compositions ; nay , he is even fastidious in his taste , and rejects much , in ...
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... perhaps quite enough for its higher parts , he possessed sagacity , shrewdness , experience , knowledge of mankind , a taste for rational and orderly compositions , and a disposition to accept , instead of poetry , that lofty and ...
... perhaps quite enough for its higher parts , he possessed sagacity , shrewdness , experience , knowledge of mankind , a taste for rational and orderly compositions , and a disposition to accept , instead of poetry , that lofty and ...
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... perhaps more barren than any other twelve years in the history of our poetry since the accession of Elizabeth . It seemed as if the fertile soil was at length exhausted . But it had in fact only ceased to exhibit its accustomed produce ...
... perhaps more barren than any other twelve years in the history of our poetry since the accession of Elizabeth . It seemed as if the fertile soil was at length exhausted . But it had in fact only ceased to exhibit its accustomed produce ...
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... perhaps from their faults , are the most national part of our poetry , as they undoubtedly contain its highest beauties . From the accession of James , to the Civil War , the glory of Shakspeare turned the whole national genius to the ...
... perhaps from their faults , are the most national part of our poetry , as they undoubtedly contain its highest beauties . From the accession of James , to the Civil War , the glory of Shakspeare turned the whole national genius to the ...
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... perhaps the chief agent which was work- ing a poetical change . As the condition and character of the former age had produced an argumentative , didactic , sententious , prudential and satirical poetry , so the approaches to a new order ...
... perhaps the chief agent which was work- ing a poetical change . As the condition and character of the former age had produced an argumentative , didactic , sententious , prudential and satirical poetry , so the approaches to a new order ...
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