The Poetical Works of Samuel RogersEdward Moxon, 1856 - 437 pages |
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... flowers . Ages and climes remote to Thee impart What charms in Genius and refines in Art ; Thee , in whose hands the keys of Science dwell , The pensive portress of her holy cell ; Whose constant vigils chase the chilling damp Oblivion ...
... flowers . Ages and climes remote to Thee impart What charms in Genius and refines in Art ; Thee , in whose hands the keys of Science dwell , The pensive portress of her holy cell ; Whose constant vigils chase the chilling damp Oblivion ...
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... flowers ; The sheltered gate that opens to my field , And the white front thro ' mingling elms revealed . In vain , alas , a village - friend invites To simple comforts and domestic rites , When the gay months of Carnival resume Their ...
... flowers ; The sheltered gate that opens to my field , And the white front thro ' mingling elms revealed . In vain , alas , a village - friend invites To simple comforts and domestic rites , When the gay months of Carnival resume Their ...
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... flowers ! There , while the shaded lamp's mild lustre streams , Read ancient books , or dream inspiring dreams ; And , when a sage's bust arrests thee there , Pause , and his features with his thoughts compare . -Ah , most that Art my ...
... flowers ! There , while the shaded lamp's mild lustre streams , Read ancient books , or dream inspiring dreams ; And , when a sage's bust arrests thee there , Pause , and his features with his thoughts compare . -Ah , most that Art my ...
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... flowers . Nor boast , O Choisy , seat of soft delight , The secret charm of thy voluptuous night . Vain is the blaze of wealth , the pomp of power ! Lo , here , attendant on the shadowy hour , Thy closet - supper , served by hands ...
... flowers . Nor boast , O Choisy , seat of soft delight , The secret charm of thy voluptuous night . Vain is the blaze of wealth , the pomp of power ! Lo , here , attendant on the shadowy hour , Thy closet - supper , served by hands ...
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... flowers she culled to wear When he , who promised , should at eve be there ; And faintly smiles , and hangs her head aside The tear that glistens on her cheek to hide ? Ah , who but CORA ? -till inspired , possessed , ' At once she ...
... flowers she culled to wear When he , who promised , should at eve be there ; And faintly smiles , and hangs her head aside The tear that glistens on her cheek to hide ? Ah , who but CORA ? -till inspired , possessed , ' At once she ...
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age to age AMALFI ancient ARIOSTO beautiful bless blest Boccaccio breathe bright called charm child Cicero clouds cried dark dead delight dream earth ELEONORA DI TOLEDO Euripides eyes father fear fled Florence flowers gate gazed GENOA gentle glimmering glory glows gold Gondolier gone grave grey grove hand hast heard heart heaven holy hour hung light line 15 lived look lost mind Montesquieu musing Naples night numbers o'er once Padua passed Petrarch pleasure rest rise ROME round sacred sail sate says scene seen shade shifting sail shine shore sigh silent sing sitting sleep slumbers smile song soon soul spirit spoke stir stood sung sweet tears thee thine things thou thought thro Titian tower turned Twas VENICE Verdea voice walls wander wave weep whence wild wind wings young youth
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Page 273 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto, you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe : You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own'.
Page 290 - When on an idle day, a day of search "Mid the old lumber in the gallery, That mouldering chest was noticed ; and 'twas said By one as young, as thoughtless as Ginevra, " Why not remove it from its lurking-place...
Page 155 - I wis all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas, good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 36 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
Page 151 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 289 - With scripture-stories from the life of Christ ; A chest that came from Venice, and had held The ducal robes of some old ancestor...
Page 337 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 289 - And in her fifteenth year became a bride, Marrying an only son, Francesco Doria, Her playmate from her birth, and her first love. Just as she looks there in her bridal dress, She was all gentleness, all gaiety, Her pranks the favourite theme of every tongue.
Page 197 - Oft, like some loved romantic tale, Oft shall my weary mind recall, Amid the hum and stir of men, Thy beechen grove and waterfall, Thy ferry with its gliding sail, And Her — the Lady of the Glen ! AN INSCRIPTION IN THE CRIMEA.
Page 182 - 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.