The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... story or the style . Poetry became more devout , more contemplative , more mystical , more visionary , more alien from the taste of those whose poetry is only a polished prosaic verse , more full of antique superstition , and more prone ...
... story or the style . Poetry became more devout , more contemplative , more mystical , more visionary , more alien from the taste of those whose poetry is only a polished prosaic verse , more full of antique superstition , and more prone ...
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... story of Hamlet , or of Paradise Lost , would before- hand have been pronounced to be unmanageable . Perhaps the genius of Shakspeare and of Milton has rather compensated for the incorri- gible defects of ungrateful subjects , than ...
... story of Hamlet , or of Paradise Lost , would before- hand have been pronounced to be unmanageable . Perhaps the genius of Shakspeare and of Milton has rather compensated for the incorri- gible defects of ungrateful subjects , than ...
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... story , which is simple , yet enough . I wonder that you do not oftener unbend to more of the same kind . I have some sym- pathy with the softer affections , though very little in my way ; and no one can depict them so truly and ...
... story , which is simple , yet enough . I wonder that you do not oftener unbend to more of the same kind . I have some sym- pathy with the softer affections , though very little in my way ; and no one can depict them so truly and ...
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... 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 ; and Mrs. Corinne always ...
... 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 ; and Mrs. Corinne always ...
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... story , and no individual characters . It is properly and peculiarly contemplative , and consists in a series of reflections on our mysterious nature and condition upon earth , and on the marvellous though unnoticed changes which the ...
... story , and no individual characters . It is properly and peculiarly contemplative , and consists in a series of reflections on our mysterious nature and condition upon earth , and on the marvellous though unnoticed changes which the ...
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