PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page xix
... fear no reverse ' of fortune ; prosperity cannot intoxicate , adversity ' cannot depress him ; he resembles the oak that con- ' tinues firm and erect , whether the sun shines or the ' storm batters . ' He looked forward every month to ...
... fear no reverse ' of fortune ; prosperity cannot intoxicate , adversity ' cannot depress him ; he resembles the oak that con- ' tinues firm and erect , whether the sun shines or the ' storm batters . ' He looked forward every month to ...
Page xx
... fears were groundless . His poems were at once noticed with praise in the Monthly Review ; he had no further anxiety about their fate , and he owned himself the author among his literary friends . The Critic begins : ' In these pieces ...
... fears were groundless . His poems were at once noticed with praise in the Monthly Review ; he had no further anxiety about their fate , and he owned himself the author among his literary friends . The Critic begins : ' In these pieces ...
Page xxiii
... fears of the nation were at this time raised to the highest pitch by what was going forward in Paris . The French revolution had begun : the many , rising against the tyranny of the government and the nobles , had broken their chains ...
... fears of the nation were at this time raised to the highest pitch by what was going forward in Paris . The French revolution had begun : the many , rising against the tyranny of the government and the nobles , had broken their chains ...
Page xxiv
... threatened to follow upon the removal of the old restraints . But Mr. Rogers saw more reason to hope than to fear . He was delighted , he wrote home , ' to observe so many thousands beating , as it xxiv SOME PARTICULARS OF THE.
... threatened to follow upon the removal of the old restraints . But Mr. Rogers saw more reason to hope than to fear . He was delighted , he wrote home , ' to observe so many thousands beating , as it xxiv SOME PARTICULARS OF THE.
Page xlii
... fear , ' Gentle to others , to himself severe . ' } It was only many years later , after peace was established , after , I believe , that he had become acquainted with the Duke of Wellington , that he added the Note to these lines ...
... fear , ' Gentle to others , to himself severe . ' } It was only many years later , after peace was established , after , I believe , that he had become acquainted with the Duke of Wellington , that he added the Note to these lines ...
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