The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... sweet verses . They do not , indeed , stir the spirit like the strong lines of Byron , nor make our hearts dance within us , like the inspiring strains of Scott ; but they come over us with a bewitching softness that , in certain moods ...
... sweet verses . They do not , indeed , stir the spirit like the strong lines of Byron , nor make our hearts dance within us , like the inspiring strains of Scott ; but they come over us with a bewitching softness that , in certain moods ...
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... sweet and serene strains , all that he sees , hears and feels , in journeying through a country which nature and history combine to consecrate , — this is the character of Rogers ' Italy ; and the reader will see at once how wholly it ...
... sweet and serene strains , all that he sees , hears and feels , in journeying through a country which nature and history combine to consecrate , — this is the character of Rogers ' Italy ; and the reader will see at once how wholly it ...
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... sweets , the choicest of the spring ! How oft inscribed , with Friendship's votive rhyme , The bark now silvered by the touch of Time ; Soared in the swing , half pleased and half afraid , Through sister elms that waved their summer ...
... sweets , the choicest of the spring ! How oft inscribed , with Friendship's votive rhyme , The bark now silvered by the touch of Time ; Soared in the swing , half pleased and half afraid , Through sister elms that waved their summer ...
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... sweet , with transports so refined ? Ethereal Power ! who at the noon of night Recall'st the far - fled spirit of delight ; From whom that musing , melancholy mood Which charms the wise , and elevates the good ; Blest MEMORY , hail ! O ...
... sweet , with transports so refined ? Ethereal Power ! who at the noon of night Recall'st the far - fled spirit of delight ; From whom that musing , melancholy mood Which charms the wise , and elevates the good ; Blest MEMORY , hail ! O ...
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... sweet delusion hung , Where once a PLATO taught , a PINDAR sung ; Who now but meets him musing , when he roves His ruined Tusculan's romantic groves ? In Rome's great forum , who but hears him roll His moral thunders o'er the subject ...
... sweet delusion hung , Where once a PLATO taught , a PINDAR sung ; Who now but meets him musing , when he roves His ruined Tusculan's romantic groves ? In Rome's great forum , who but hears him roll His moral thunders o'er the subject ...
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