The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
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... Leasowes , ' where Shenstone lived , and where he died in the year in which Samuel Rogers was born . Close at hand , at Hagley , was George Lyttelton , the friend of Pope , the patron of www Thomson , the poet of ' Blenheim ' and.
... Leasowes , ' where Shenstone lived , and where he died in the year in which Samuel Rogers was born . Close at hand , at Hagley , was George Lyttelton , the friend of Pope , the patron of www Thomson , the poet of ' Blenheim ' and.
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Peter William Clayden. www Thomson , the poet of ' Blenheim ' and ' The Progress of Love ' ; afterwards , author of ' Dialogues of the Dead , ' a Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer and a peer . Farther off , on the other side of ...
Peter William Clayden. www Thomson , the poet of ' Blenheim ' and ' The Progress of Love ' ; afterwards , author of ' Dialogues of the Dead , ' a Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer and a peer . Farther off , on the other side of ...
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... poets or himself writ- ing what he hoped might live , or , like a later and less fortunate aspirant for fame , with old bards of honour- able name , measuring his soul severely . In this way he became an author . CHAPTER III . Early ...
... poets or himself writ- ing what he hoped might live , or , like a later and less fortunate aspirant for fame , with old bards of honour- able name , measuring his soul severely . In this way he became an author . CHAPTER III . Early ...
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... poetry in view , and his love of poetry , even his desire to be a poet , had been known and recognised from com- paratively early years . In 1775 Mason published the • Life and Letters of Gray , ' with an edition of his poems , and ...
... poetry in view , and his love of poetry , even his desire to be a poet , had been known and recognised from com- paratively early years . In 1775 Mason published the • Life and Letters of Gray , ' with an edition of his poems , and ...
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... poet's spell . It might be described in Wordsworth's lines in his autobiographical poem— Twice five years Or less I ... poetry was nourished by the popular poets of the time . One of the sweetest bits of early praise which reached his ...
... poet's spell . It might be described in Wordsworth's lines in his autobiographical poem— Twice five years Or less I ... poetry was nourished by the popular poets of the time . One of the sweetest bits of early praise which reached his ...
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