The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... thought he perceived the " hand of a master . " Six years afterwards he published The Pleasures of Memory , a poem that attained an immediate popularity , both in England and in this country . This poem was elaborated with the most ...
... thought he perceived the " hand of a master . " Six years afterwards he published The Pleasures of Memory , a poem that attained an immediate popularity , both in England and in this country . This poem was elaborated with the most ...
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... thoughts in the most sublime work of Bossuet . Nothing can satisfy the expectation awakened by such names ; yet we are assured that there are some of them which would be envied by the best writers of this age . The scenery of Loch Long ...
... thoughts in the most sublime work of Bossuet . Nothing can satisfy the expectation awakened by such names ; yet we are assured that there are some of them which would be envied by the best writers of this age . The scenery of Loch Long ...
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... thoughts and feelings that superhuman agents are brought down upon earth ; it is rather for the contrary purpose , of lifting them into a mysteri- ous dignity beyond the cognizance of reason . There is a material difference between the ...
... thoughts and feelings that superhuman agents are brought down upon earth ; it is rather for the contrary purpose , of lifting them into a mysteri- ous dignity beyond the cognizance of reason . There is a material difference between the ...
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... thought and feeling ; and poets of the first rank depend on them for no small part of the perpetuity of their fame . In poetry , though not in eloquence , it is less to rouse the passions of a moment than to satisfy the taste of all ...
... thought and feeling ; and poets of the first rank depend on them for no small part of the perpetuity of their fame . In poetry , though not in eloquence , it is less to rouse the passions of a moment than to satisfy the taste of all ...
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... thought , Mr. Rogers was always harmonious , always graceful , and often pathetic . But his beauties are all beauties of execution and detail , arising from the charm of skilful versification , the curiosa felicitas ' of expression ...
... thought , Mr. Rogers was always harmonious , always graceful , and often pathetic . But his beauties are all beauties of execution and detail , arising from the charm of skilful versification , the curiosa felicitas ' of expression ...
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