PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page xxxix
... a man of letters . He admired his speeches in favour of peace when we were at war with France , and he admired his love of Homer and Virgil . Nor did he less like his taste in English poetry , LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . xxxix.
... a man of letters . He admired his speeches in favour of peace when we were at war with France , and he admired his love of Homer and Virgil . Nor did he less like his taste in English poetry , LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . xxxix.
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Samuel Rogers. did he less like his taste in English poetry , and his love for Dryden's versification . The Statesman had also valued the friendship of the Poet ; and when Mr. Rogers finished his house in St. James's Place , Mr. Fox ...
Samuel Rogers. did he less like his taste in English poetry , and his love for Dryden's versification . The Statesman had also valued the friendship of the Poet ; and when Mr. Rogers finished his house in St. James's Place , Mr. Fox ...
Page xli
... less regular , and with pauses which do not fall on the rhymes , aims at greater boldness and at loftier thoughts of creative fancy . To these heights of grandeur it often successfully reaches ; but not always . It is an unfinished ...
... less regular , and with pauses which do not fall on the rhymes , aims at greater boldness and at loftier thoughts of creative fancy . To these heights of grandeur it often successfully reaches ; but not always . It is an unfinished ...
Page xlvi
... less valued in proportion as he has taken care to make himself understood . In the same volume with ' Human Life , ' Mr. Rogers published the lines entitled ' The Boy of Egremond , ' which are , perhaps , the least valuable of his ...
... less valued in proportion as he has taken care to make himself understood . In the same volume with ' Human Life , ' Mr. Rogers published the lines entitled ' The Boy of Egremond , ' which are , perhaps , the least valuable of his ...
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... less , and to very monotonous ' music . The Procrustes who invented it is unknown . ' He thought his ' Human Life ' the best of his poems , the fruit of his ripened judgment and experience ; compared with this , he would call his ...
... less , and to very monotonous ' music . The Procrustes who invented it is unknown . ' He thought his ' Human Life ' the best of his poems , the fruit of his ripened judgment and experience ; compared with this , he would call his ...
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