The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... thousand times observed , that nations become weary even of excellence , and seek a new way of writing , though it should be a worse . But , besides the operation of satiety , the general cause of literary revolutions , - several ...
... thousand times observed , that nations become weary even of excellence , and seek a new way of writing , though it should be a worse . But , besides the operation of satiety , the general cause of literary revolutions , - several ...
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... thousand national poets ; and while some may soften the cruelty which darkens the daring energy of Cortez and Pizarro , - while others may , in perhaps new forms of poetry , ennoble the pacific conquests of Penn , —and while the gen ius ...
... thousand national poets ; and while some may soften the cruelty which darkens the daring energy of Cortez and Pizarro , - while others may , in perhaps new forms of poetry , ennoble the pacific conquests of Penn , —and while the gen ius ...
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... thousand nameless rills , that shun the light , Stealing soft music on the ear of night . So oft the finer movements of the soul , That shun the sphere of Pleasure's gay control , In the still shades of calm Seclusion rise , And breathe ...
... thousand nameless rills , that shun the light , Stealing soft music on the ear of night . So oft the finer movements of the soul , That shun the sphere of Pleasure's gay control , In the still shades of calm Seclusion rise , And breathe ...
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... thousand times better in all respects . " ― See his Let- ter to the D. of Sh . This is the language of the heart , and will remind the reader of that good - humored remark in one of Pope's letters : " I should hardly care to have an old ...
... thousand times better in all respects . " ― See his Let- ter to the D. of Sh . This is the language of the heart , and will remind the reader of that good - humored remark in one of Pope's letters : " I should hardly care to have an old ...
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... thousand miles in circumference . Ontario - receives the waters of the Niagara , so famous for its falls , and discharges itself into the Atlantic by the river St. Lawrence . ( 6 ) La plūpart de ces īles ne sont en effet que des pointes ...
... thousand miles in circumference . Ontario - receives the waters of the Niagara , so famous for its falls , and discharges itself into the Atlantic by the river St. Lawrence . ( 6 ) La plūpart de ces īles ne sont en effet que des pointes ...
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