The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... things to come , and sus- pected him of holding secret commerce with the Muse , before the proof appeared in shape of one of the most beautiful and harmonious poems in our language . I do not say that he has not ornamented the age he ...
... things to come , and sus- pected him of holding secret commerce with the Muse , before the proof appeared in shape of one of the most beautiful and harmonious poems in our language . I do not say that he has not ornamented the age he ...
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... things , partook of that calm , argumentative , moral , and directly useful character , into which it naturally subsides when there are no events to call up the higher passions , when every talent is allured into the imme- diate service ...
... things , partook of that calm , argumentative , moral , and directly useful character , into which it naturally subsides when there are no events to call up the higher passions , when every talent is allured into the imme- diate service ...
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... thing as a vulgar line in the book . * Rogers wants me to go with him on a crusade to the Lakes , and to besiege you on our way . This last is a great temptation , but I fear it will not be in my power , unless you would go on with one ...
... thing as a vulgar line in the book . * Rogers wants me to go with him on a crusade to the Lakes , and to besiege you on our way . This last is a great temptation , but I fear it will not be in my power , unless you would go on with one ...
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... things , perhaps the hardest in the world for a poet to effect is to gossip poetically . We are those who think it is in this that Wordsworth rarely succeeds , and Cowper as rarely fails . This graceful and difficult art Rogers has made ...
... things , perhaps the hardest in the world for a poet to effect is to gossip poetically . We are those who think it is in this that Wordsworth rarely succeeds , and Cowper as rarely fails . This graceful and difficult art Rogers has made ...
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... things he said , and after the latter you merely remember how much you laughed . June 10th.— Breakfasted at Rogers ' , to meet Luttrell , Lady Davy , Miss Rogers and William Bankes . * Rogers 6 showed us Gray's Poems ' in his original ...
... things he said , and after the latter you merely remember how much you laughed . June 10th.— Breakfasted at Rogers ' , to meet Luttrell , Lady Davy , Miss Rogers and William Bankes . * Rogers 6 showed us Gray's Poems ' in his original ...
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