The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... rise at last - Recall the pleasing memory of the past . Arise ! let blest remembrance still inspire , And strike to wonted tones thy hallowed lyre ; Restore Apollo to his vacant throne , Assert thy country's honor and thine own . " This ...
... rise at last - Recall the pleasing memory of the past . Arise ! let blest remembrance still inspire , And strike to wonted tones thy hallowed lyre ; Restore Apollo to his vacant throne , Assert thy country's honor and thine own . " This ...
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... rise of Cowper is 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 ...
... rise of Cowper is 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 ...
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... rise , and slow in its progress , reached its most brilliant period when all Europe had considerably lost its ancient characteristic principles , and was fully imbued with classical ideas . Hence it acquired faultless elegance ; hence ...
... rise , and slow in its progress , reached its most brilliant period when all Europe had considerably lost its ancient characteristic principles , and was fully imbued with classical ideas . Hence it acquired faultless elegance ; hence ...
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... rise to scientific poems , in which a bold attempt was made , by the mere force of diction , to give a political interest and elevation to the cold- est parts of knowledge , and to those arts which have been hitherto considered as the ...
... rise to scientific poems , in which a bold attempt was made , by the mere force of diction , to give a political interest and elevation to the cold- est parts of knowledge , and to those arts which have been hitherto considered as the ...
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... by resistance to them . It borrowed no aid either from prejudice or innovation . It neither copied the fashion of the age which was passing away , nor offered any homage to the rising novelties . It resembles 20 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
... by resistance to them . It borrowed no aid either from prejudice or innovation . It neither copied the fashion of the age which was passing away , nor offered any homage to the rising novelties . It resembles 20 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
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