The Pleasures of Memory. [By Samuel Rogers.]P. Wogan, 1804 - 60 pages |
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... melancholy which it excites on being revisited after a long ab → sence . This mixed sensation is an effect of the Me- mory . From an effect we naturally ascend to the cause ; and the subject proposed is then unfolded with an ...
... melancholy which it excites on being revisited after a long ab → sence . This mixed sensation is an effect of the Me- mory . From an effect we naturally ascend to the cause ; and the subject proposed is then unfolded with an ...
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... melancholy mood , Which charms the wise , and elevates the good ; Blest MEMORY , hail ! Oh , grant the grateful muse Her pencil dipt in Nature's living hues , To pass the clouds that round thy empire roll , And trace its airy precincts ...
... melancholy mood , Which charms the wise , and elevates the good ; Blest MEMORY , hail ! Oh , grant the grateful muse Her pencil dipt in Nature's living hues , To pass the clouds that round thy empire roll , And trace its airy precincts ...
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... melancholy , she amuses with a retrospect of innocent pleasures , and inspires that noble confidence which results from the consci- ousness of having acted well . When sleep has sus- pended the organs of sense from their office , she ...
... melancholy , she amuses with a retrospect of innocent pleasures , and inspires that noble confidence which results from the consci- ousness of having acted well . When sleep has sus- pended the organs of sense from their office , she ...
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... melancholy grace ! And as the sparks of social love expand , As the heart opens in a foreign land ; And with a brother's warmth , a brother's smile , The stranger greets each native of his isle ; So scenes of life , when present and ...
... melancholy grace ! And as the sparks of social love expand , As the heart opens in a foreign land ; And with a brother's warmth , a brother's smile , The stranger greets each native of his isle ; So scenes of life , when present and ...
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... melancholy , which arises in the mind of every man ' in the decline of life , on visiting the place of his nativity , and viewing the scenes and objects familiar to him in his early youth . ROBERTSON'S Hist . iv . 256 . NOTE r . P. 20 ...
... melancholy , which arises in the mind of every man ' in the decline of life , on visiting the place of his nativity , and viewing the scenes and objects familiar to him in his early youth . ROBERTSON'S Hist . iv . 256 . NOTE r . P. 20 ...
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