PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page xii
... things of this world for their conscience - sake , ' And die like blessed martyrs . ' The elder Mr. Rogers at the Hill in Worcestershire , had been a strong Tory ; but as Thomas Rogers the younger became after his marriage a Dissenter ...
... things of this world for their conscience - sake , ' And die like blessed martyrs . ' The elder Mr. Rogers at the Hill in Worcestershire , had been a strong Tory ; but as Thomas Rogers the younger became after his marriage a Dissenter ...
Page liii
... thing . ' He spoke of himself as an author with the boast of true humility , ' I always did my best . ' ' What is ' written with ease , ' he would say , ' is often read with ' difficulty . Moreover , what is written in a short time ...
... thing . ' He spoke of himself as an author with the boast of true humility , ' I always did my best . ' ' What is ' written with ease , ' he would say , ' is often read with ' difficulty . Moreover , what is written in a short time ...
Page lviii
... thing that I was about . He trained his mind to look for the beautiful and the good in all that came before him . He had acquired the ' habit of looking every- ' where for excellencies and not for faults , whether in ' art or nature ...
... thing that I was about . He trained his mind to look for the beautiful and the good in all that came before him . He had acquired the ' habit of looking every- ' where for excellencies and not for faults , whether in ' art or nature ...
Page lix
... things here , or grand or beautiful , ' A setting sun , a lake among the mountains , " The light of an ingenuous countenance , ' And what transcends them all , a noble action . ' In his old age , as is usual , he returned to the recol ...
... things here , or grand or beautiful , ' A setting sun , a lake among the mountains , " The light of an ingenuous countenance , ' And what transcends them all , a noble action . ' In his old age , as is usual , he returned to the recol ...
Page 8
... things pleased , for life itself was new , And the heart promised what the fancy drew . See , thro ' the fractured pediment revealed , Where moss inlays the rudely sculptured shield , The martin's old , hereditary nest . Long may the ...
... things pleased , for life itself was new , And the heart promised what the fancy drew . See , thro ' the fractured pediment revealed , Where moss inlays the rudely sculptured shield , The martin's old , hereditary nest . Long may the ...
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admiration ancient beautiful bids blessed blest breathe bright called CANTO CHARLES JAMES FOX charm Cicero Columbus dark death delight dream Euripides eyes father fear feelings Finden fled flowers fond gaze Gilbert Wakefield glows Goodall grey grove hail hand hear heart Heaven Hence Herodotus Hist hope hour Household Deities hung Icarius Italy light line 15 lived look Lord mind musing Newington Green night o'er once Petrarch Pleasures of Memory poems Poet reign Richard Sharp rise Rogers round sacred sail Samuel Rogers sate says scene secret shade shed shine sigh silent sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit stood Stothard Stourbridge sung sweet swell taste tears thee thine Thomas Rogers thou thought thro trace trembling triumph Turner Twas verse virtue voice wake wandering wave weep wild wings wish Worcestershire young youth