PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page iii
... heart , And bid the tear of emulation start ! Oh could it still , thro ' each succeeding year , My life , my manners , and my name endear ; And , when the poet sleeps in silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! — Yet ...
... heart , And bid the tear of emulation start ! Oh could it still , thro ' each succeeding year , My life , my manners , and my name endear ; And , when the poet sleeps in silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! — Yet ...
Page xxi
... heart was wont to share ' From reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; ' With whom , alas ! I fondly hoped to know " The humble walks of happiness below ; ' I thy blessed nature now unites above ' An angel's pity with a brother's ...
... heart was wont to share ' From reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; ' With whom , alas ! I fondly hoped to know " The humble walks of happiness below ; ' I thy blessed nature now unites above ' An angel's pity with a brother's ...
Page xxxv
... heart of her husband . Mr. Rogers had a great regard for Lord Holland , in whom he found a kindred love of letters , of civil and religious liberty , and of his uncle Charles Fox ; and when he addresses Fox in his poem , he ends ...
... heart of her husband . Mr. Rogers had a great regard for Lord Holland , in whom he found a kindred love of letters , of civil and religious liberty , and of his uncle Charles Fox ; and when he addresses Fox in his poem , he ends ...
Page lii
... heart could be best uttered in the language of the nursery ; and as an example of lofty thoughts made yet more striking because clothed in simple language , he would quote Mrs. Barbauld's lines beginning- ' Life we've been long together ...
... heart could be best uttered in the language of the nursery ; and as an example of lofty thoughts made yet more striking because clothed in simple language , he would quote Mrs. Barbauld's lines beginning- ' Life we've been long together ...
Page lxiii
... heart and character laid open before the reader ; and thus in Mr. Rogers's poems , we find- ' his mind unfolded in his page . ' In the Preface to the ' Pleasures of Memory , ' he tells us that his aim was to- ' Enlighten climes , and ...
... heart and character laid open before the reader ; and thus in Mr. Rogers's poems , we find- ' his mind unfolded in his page . ' In the Preface to the ' Pleasures of Memory , ' he tells us that his aim was to- ' Enlighten climes , and ...
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