PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page iii
... poet sleeps in silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! — Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When through the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but ...
... poet sleeps in silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! — Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When through the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but ...
Page vii
... poet . I neither feel equal to the task of writing such , nor called upon to undertake it . A near relation is not likely to possess , or wish to possess , the required impartiality ; but these few pages may be useful as a preface to ...
... poet . I neither feel equal to the task of writing such , nor called upon to undertake it . A near relation is not likely to possess , or wish to possess , the required impartiality ; but these few pages may be useful as a preface to ...
Page viii
... poet . His society was as much valued as his writings . He was for the last fifty years of his life the possessor of a choice collection of pictures and antiquities , an acknowledged judge in matters of art , the friend of all authors ...
... poet . His society was as much valued as his writings . He was for the last fifty years of his life the possessor of a choice collection of pictures and antiquities , an acknowledged judge in matters of art , the friend of all authors ...
Page ix
... Poet took the liberty of describing it . It still has a row of elms in front of it , and a large field on the side , though the road into which the gate opens from the field no longer deserves the name of the ' Green Lanes , ' by which ...
... Poet took the liberty of describing it . It still has a row of elms in front of it , and a large field on the side , though the road into which the gate opens from the field no longer deserves the name of the ' Green Lanes , ' by which ...
Page x
Samuel Rogers. Daniel Radford , the Poet's grandfather on his mother's side , by careful attention to business , had been the maker of his own fortune . He was the son of Samuel Radford , a linendraper in Chester , and of Eleanor , a ...
Samuel Rogers. Daniel Radford , the Poet's grandfather on his mother's side , by careful attention to business , had been the maker of his own fortune . He was the son of Samuel Radford , a linendraper in Chester , and of Eleanor , a ...
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