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It has been a 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 ...
It has been a 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 ...
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... scope for the genius of a 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 ...
... scope for the genius of a 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 ...
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... in her dusky car , Comes slowly on to meet the evening - star ; Above , below , a๋rial murmurs swell , From hanging wood , brown heath , and bushy dell ! A thousand nameless rills , that shun the light , Stealing soft ...
... in her dusky car , Comes slowly on to meet the evening - star ; Above , below , a๋rial murmurs swell , From hanging wood , brown heath , and bushy dell ! A thousand nameless rills , that shun the light , Stealing soft ...
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( 5 ) Every man , like Gulliver in Lilliput , is fastened to some spot of earth , by the thousand small threads which habit and association are continually stealing over him . Of these , perhaps , one of the strongest is here alluded to ...
( 5 ) Every man , like Gulliver in Lilliput , is fastened to some spot of earth , by the thousand small threads which habit and association are continually stealing over him . Of these , perhaps , one of the strongest is here alluded to ...
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To a friend , " says John , Duke of Buckingham , " I will expose my weakness : I am oftener missing a pretty gallery in the old house I pulled down , than pleased with a saloon which I built in its stead , though a thousand times better ...
To a friend , " says John , Duke of Buckingham , " I will expose my weakness : I am oftener missing a pretty gallery in the old house I pulled down , than pleased with a saloon which I built in its stead , though a thousand times better ...
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| Title | The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes British poets Making of America |
| Author | Samuel Rogers |
| Editor | Epes Sargent |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Mar 2010 |
| Length | 460 pages |
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