The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
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... town and county . He had married a daughter of Richard Knight of Downton ; and Richard Payne Knight , the antiquary , and Thomas Andrew Knight , the writer on horticulture , were his nephews . He was a Tory of the old school , and lived ...
... town and county . He had married a daughter of Richard Knight of Downton ; and Richard Payne Knight , the antiquary , and Thomas Andrew Knight , the writer on horticulture , were his nephews . He was a Tory of the old school , and lived ...
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... Town . Perhaps the best account which can be given of the father and mother is in the self - revelations of their letters , many of which have happily been preserved . In these letters are the only re- maining records of Samuel Rogers's ...
... Town . Perhaps the best account which can be given of the father and mother is in the self - revelations of their letters , many of which have happily been preserved . In these letters are the only re- maining records of Samuel Rogers's ...
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Peter William Clayden. MRS . ROGERS'S LETTERS 13 Wednesday evening we went to town to see Mr. Raper1 and Miss Raper in Norfolk Street , who both agreed to dine with us at the Green next day , and Mr. Harry Raper being there - and a ...
Peter William Clayden. MRS . ROGERS'S LETTERS 13 Wednesday evening we went to town to see Mr. Raper1 and Miss Raper in Norfolk Street , who both agreed to dine with us at the Green next day , and Mr. Harry Raper being there - and a ...
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... town are not found sufficient . ' In October , 1785 , he reports the first Assembly of the season at Stourbridge ... towns very gay . We have one comes from Birmingham to Stourbridge , and from hence to Bewdley every day but Monday ; and ...
... town are not found sufficient . ' In October , 1785 , he reports the first Assembly of the season at Stourbridge ... towns very gay . We have one comes from Birmingham to Stourbridge , and from hence to Bewdley every day but Monday ; and ...
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... town , and attend as much as possible to Mr. Welch's ease , doing everything he can to relieve him from too much application . In most of these letters he speaks of Sam's health . In 1781 Sam had gone to Margate , and his.
... town , and attend as much as possible to Mr. Welch's ease , doing everything he can to relieve him from too much application . In most of these letters he speaks of Sam's health . In 1781 Sam had gone to Margate , and his.
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Page 221 - Her tattered mantle, and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips, her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore, Imps, in the barn with mousing owlet bred, From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ; Whose dark eyes flashed through locks of blackest shade, When in the breeze the distant watch-dog bayed...
Page 223 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 408 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 304 - So spake the grisly Terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 237 - Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue Some long-loved image vanished from her view; Dart thro...
Page 114 - I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
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Page 25 - Locked in her arms, his arms across her flung, (That name most dear for ever on his tongue) As with soft accents round her neck he clings, And cheek to cheek, her lulling song she sings, How blest to feel the beatings of his heart, Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart ; Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love ! But soon a nobler task demands her care.
Page 61 - ... him at his birth what most he values, A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the language of the gods, For all 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. Nature denied him much, but gave him more; And ever, ever grateful should he be, Though from his cheek, ere yet the down was there, Health fled ; for in his heaviest hours would come Gleams such as come...
Page 114 - THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear...