PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page viii
... never lived in the same house with him ; my engagements in business and at home did not allow me to visit him so often as he kindly wished ; and I was separated from him by a wide difference in our ages . HIGHBURY PLACE . July , 1859 ...
... never lived in the same house with him ; my engagements in business and at home did not allow me to visit him so often as he kindly wished ; and I was separated from him by a wide difference in our ages . HIGHBURY PLACE . July , 1859 ...
Page xii
... never forgot , when his father one night after reading the Bible to his family , closed the book and explained to his children the cause of the rebellion , adding , that our nation was in the wrong , and that it was not right to wish ...
... never forgot , when his father one night after reading the Bible to his family , closed the book and explained to his children the cause of the rebellion , adding , that our nation was in the wrong , and that it was not right to wish ...
Page xxi
... ' Devout yet cheerful , active yet resigned ; ' Grant me like thee , whose heart knew no disguise , ' Whose blameless wishes never aimed to rise , ' To meet the changes Time and Chance present , LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . xxi.
... ' Devout yet cheerful , active yet resigned ; ' Grant me like thee , whose heart knew no disguise , ' Whose blameless wishes never aimed to rise , ' To meet the changes Time and Chance present , LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . xxi.
Page xxiii
... never told to call upon the author of the Cotter's Saturday Night . Burns was driven by neglect to become an officer of the Excise in the very year that Mr. Rogers , with whom poetry was the uppermost thought in his mind , was asking to ...
... never told to call upon the author of the Cotter's Saturday Night . Burns was driven by neglect to become an officer of the Excise in the very year that Mr. Rogers , with whom poetry was the uppermost thought in his mind , was asking to ...
Page xxxiii
... Never go near them , Sam . ' But their doors were now open to the young and wealthy poet ; and he did not refuse to enter . At Lady Jersey's parties he was a frequent visitor ; and with his ' Epistle to a Friend , ' in 1798 , he ...
... Never go near them , Sam . ' But their doors were now open to the young and wealthy poet ; and he did not refuse to enter . At Lady Jersey's parties he was a frequent visitor ; and with his ' Epistle to a Friend , ' in 1798 , he ...
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