The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch and NotesCrosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860 - 460 pages |
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... rise at last Recall the pleasing memory of the past . Arise ! let blest remembrance still inspire , And strike to wonted tones thy hallowed lyre ; Restore Apollo to his vacant throne , Assert thy country's honor and thine own . " This ...
... rise at last Recall the pleasing memory of the past . Arise ! let blest remembrance still inspire , And strike to wonted tones thy hallowed lyre ; Restore Apollo to his vacant throne , Assert thy country's honor and thine own . " This ...
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... rise of Cowper is perhaps more barren than any other twelve years in the history of our poetry since the accession of Elizabeth . It seemed as if the fertile soil was at length exhausted . But it had in fact only ceased to exhibit its ...
... rise of Cowper is perhaps more barren than any other twelve years in the history of our poetry since the accession of Elizabeth . It seemed as if the fertile soil was at length exhausted . But it had in fact only ceased to exhibit its ...
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... rise , and slow in its progress , reached its most brilliant period when all Europe had considerably lost its ancient characteristic principles , and was fully imbued with classical ideas . Hence it acquired faultless elegance ; hence ...
... rise , and slow in its progress , reached its most brilliant period when all Europe had considerably lost its ancient characteristic principles , and was fully imbued with classical ideas . Hence it acquired faultless elegance ; hence ...
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... rise to scientific poems , in which a bold attempt was made , by the mere force of diction , to give a political interest and elevation to the cold- est parts of knowledge , and to those arts which have been hitherto considered as the ...
... rise to scientific poems , in which a bold attempt was made , by the mere force of diction , to give a political interest and elevation to the cold- est parts of knowledge , and to those arts which have been hitherto considered as the ...
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... by resistance to them . It borrowed no aid either from prejudice or innovation . It neither copied the fashion of the age which was passing away , nor offered any homage to the rising novelties . It resembles 20 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
... by resistance to them . It borrowed no aid either from prejudice or innovation . It neither copied the fashion of the age which was passing away , nor offered any homage to the rising novelties . It resembles 20 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
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Page 158 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 207 - ... that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 66 - Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm, When nature fades and life forgets to charm; Thee would the Muse invoke! — to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song.
Page 244 - SLEEP on, and dream of Heaven awhile — Tho' shut so close thy laughing eyes, Thy rosy lips still wear a smile And move, and breathe delicious sighs ! Ah, now soft blushes tinge her cheeks And mantle o'er her neck of snow ; Ah, now she murmurs, now she speaks What most I wish — and fear to know ! She starts, she trembles, and she weeps ! Her fair hands folded on her breast : — And now, how like a saint she sleeps ! A seraph in the realms of rest ! Sleep on secure ! Above...
Page 205 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 49 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 157 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather...
Page 205 - 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 207 - 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 325 - Orsini lived ; and long might'st thou have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find — he knew not what.