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Page 19
The fire with which a chivalrous tale was told made the reader inattentive to negligences in the story or the style . Poetry became more devout , more contemplative , more mystical , more visionary , more alien from the taste of those ...
The fire with which a chivalrous tale was told made the reader inattentive to negligences in the story or the style . Poetry became more devout , more contemplative , more mystical , more visionary , more alien from the taste of those ...
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The story of Hamlet , or of Paradise Lost , would beforehand have been pronounced to be unmanageable . Perhaps the genius of Shakspeare and of Milton has rather compensated for the incorrigible defects of ungrateful subjects ...
The story of Hamlet , or of Paradise Lost , would beforehand have been pronounced to be unmanageable . Perhaps the genius of Shakspeare and of Milton has rather compensated for the incorrigible defects of ungrateful subjects ...
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... previously : " You could not have made me a more acceptable present than Jacqueline ; she is all grace , and softness , and poetry ; there is so much of the last that we do not feel the want of story , which is simple , yet enough .
... previously : " You could not have made me a more acceptable present than Jacqueline ; she is all grace , and softness , and poetry ; there is so much of the last that we do not feel the want of story , which is simple , yet enough .
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Sheridan told a very good story of himself and Madame de Recamier's handkerchief ; Erskine a few stories of himself only . The party went off very well , and the fish was very much to my gusto . But we got up too soon after the women ...
Sheridan told a very good story of himself and Madame de Recamier's handkerchief ; Erskine a few stories of himself only . The party went off very well , and the fish was very much to my gusto . But we got up too soon after the women ...
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... for the picture is entirely English , and though not perhaps in the choice of every one , yet open to the judgment , and familiar to the sympathies , of all . It contains , of course , no story , and no individual ...
... for the picture is entirely English , and though not perhaps in the choice of every one , yet open to the judgment , and familiar to the sympathies , of all . It contains , of course , no story , and no individual ...
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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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