PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page xix
... the powers and evils of Superstition are pointed out calmly and philosophically . The examples are all drawn from distant lands or bygone times . The Poet only hints at the intolerance of his own day , when he LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . xix.
... the powers and evils of Superstition are pointed out calmly and philosophically . The examples are all drawn from distant lands or bygone times . The Poet only hints at the intolerance of his own day , when he LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . xix.
Page xli
... land of hope with the friends of civilisation , while England had been frightened away from the very name of reform by the violence of the French Revolution . The English had not then given freedom to the Negro slave , nor had the Ame ...
... land of hope with the friends of civilisation , while England had been frightened away from the very name of reform by the violence of the French Revolution . The English had not then given freedom to the Negro slave , nor had the Ame ...
Page xlvii
... land of Horace and Virgil , of Dante and Petrarch , of Raphael and Michael Angelo . The solemn temples of Pæstum had been much in his mind before starting on his journey ; the copy of a Doric column from one of those buildings , stood ...
... land of Horace and Virgil , of Dante and Petrarch , of Raphael and Michael Angelo . The solemn temples of Pæstum had been much in his mind before starting on his journey ; the copy of a Doric column from one of those buildings , stood ...
Page xlix
... land ennobled by great actions , and familiar to us by classic recollections , and one to which ourselves owe so much of our civilisation . Mr. Rogers fancied that the cool manner in which this poem was at first received amounted to an ...
... land ennobled by great actions , and familiar to us by classic recollections , and one to which ourselves owe so much of our civilisation . Mr. Rogers fancied that the cool manner in which this poem was at first received amounted to an ...
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... land , Such in his soul the ardour to explore , PELIDES - like , he leaped the first ashore . ' Twas ever thus . As now at VIRGIL's tomb We bless the shade and bid the verdure bloom ; So TULLY paused , amid the wrecks of Time , On the ...
... land , Such in his soul the ardour to explore , PELIDES - like , he leaped the first ashore . ' Twas ever thus . As now at VIRGIL's tomb We bless the shade and bid the verdure bloom ; So TULLY paused , amid the wrecks of Time , On the ...
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