The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... till he exhausted his own patience ; and then , turning to his friends , he demanded their opinions , listening to every remark , and weighing every observation . This plan of correction is liable to serious objec- tions . The poet is ...
... till he exhausted his own patience ; and then , turning to his friends , he demanded their opinions , listening to every remark , and weighing every observation . This plan of correction is liable to serious objec- tions . The poet is ...
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... till the year 1812 , when he ventured before the world with a frag- mentary poem entitled The Voyage of Columbus . This poem was received by the critics with various favor . In a letter written from Bombay , before its appearance , Sir ...
... till the year 1812 , when he ventured before the world with a frag- mentary poem entitled The Voyage of Columbus . This poem was received by the critics with various favor . In a letter written from Bombay , before its appearance , Sir ...
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... till a very late period of the last century , is neither the most poetical nor the most national part of our literary annals . These great poets sometimes , indeed , ventured into the regions of pure poetry ; but their general character ...
... till a very late period of the last century , is neither the most poetical nor the most national part of our literary annals . These great poets sometimes , indeed , ventured into the regions of pure poetry ; but their general character ...
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... till the diffusion of physical knowledge renders it familiar to the popular imagina- . tion , and till the prodigies worked by the mechanical arts shall have bestowed on them a character of grandeur . " As the agitation of men's minds ...
... till the diffusion of physical knowledge renders it familiar to the popular imagina- . tion , and till the prodigies worked by the mechanical arts shall have bestowed on them a character of grandeur . " As the agitation of men's minds ...
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... till even Mr. Rogers himself , with all his feeling of our injustice , found it impossible not to join us ; and we were , at last , all three in such a state of inextinguishable laughter , that , had the author him- self been of the ...
... till even Mr. Rogers himself , with all his feeling of our injustice , found it impossible not to join us ; and we were , at last , all three in such a state of inextinguishable laughter , that , had the author him- self been of the ...
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