The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... silent possession of the heart , rather than fill it with immediate rapture . Hazlitt , with some of that perverseness which even talent is not without , said the chief fault of Rogers was want of genius and taste . Perhaps in the whole ...
... silent possession of the heart , rather than fill it with immediate rapture . Hazlitt , with some of that perverseness which even talent is not without , said the chief fault of Rogers was want of genius and taste . Perhaps in the whole ...
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... silent and inglorious ages , to awaken the genius of a poet . Full of enthusiasm for those perfect forms of heroism and liberty which his imagination had placed in the recesses of antiquity , he gave vent to his impatience of the ...
... silent and inglorious ages , to awaken the genius of a poet . Full of enthusiasm for those perfect forms of heroism and liberty which his imagination had placed in the recesses of antiquity , he gave vent to his impatience of the ...
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... silent ; and , it is said , severe . When he does talk , he talks well ; and , on all subjects of taste , his delicacy of expression is pure as his poetry . If you enter his house , his draw- ing - room , his library , you of yourself ...
... silent ; and , it is said , severe . When he does talk , he talks well ; and , on all subjects of taste , his delicacy of expression is pure as his poetry . If you enter his house , his draw- ing - room , his library , you of yourself ...
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... silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! - Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When through the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh or charm ...
... silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! - Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When through the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh or charm ...
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... silent spot endear ? Mark yon old Mansion frowning through the trees , Whose hollow turret woos the whistling breeze . That casement , arched with ivy's brownest shade , First to these eyes the light of heaven conveyed . The mouldering ...
... silent spot endear ? Mark yon old Mansion frowning through the trees , Whose hollow turret woos the whistling breeze . That casement , arched with ivy's brownest shade , First to these eyes the light of heaven conveyed . The mouldering ...
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