PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page iii
... one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date , as his who traced them here . 1793 . A CONTENTS . PAGE LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
... one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date , as his who traced them here . 1793 . A CONTENTS . PAGE LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
Page xxxiii
... hour or two spent in the company of these able and distinguished men , Mr. Rogers on his return home often noted down in his journal those opinions and remarks which he had heard that were best worth remembering . In this way he left ...
... hour or two spent in the company of these able and distinguished men , Mr. Rogers on his return home often noted down in his journal those opinions and remarks which he had heard that were best worth remembering . In this way he left ...
Page lxiii
... hour employ , ' Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy . ' Such was his aim at the age of thirty when he wrote these lines ; and every reader of his poems will at once grant , that when he laid down his LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . lxiii.
... hour employ , ' Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy . ' Such was his aim at the age of thirty when he wrote these lines ; and every reader of his poems will at once grant , that when he laid down his LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . lxiii.
Page 9
... hour , With startling step we scaled the lonely tower ; O'er infant innocence to hang and weep , Murdered by ruffian hands , when smiling in its sleep . Ye Household Deities ! whose guardian eye Marked each pure thought , ere registered ...
... hour , With startling step we scaled the lonely tower ; O'er infant innocence to hang and weep , Murdered by ruffian hands , when smiling in its sleep . Ye Household Deities ! whose guardian eye Marked each pure thought , ere registered ...
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... hour away , Won by the raptures of a game at play ; He bends to meet each artless burst of joy , Forgets his age , and acts again the boy . What tho ' the iron school of War erase Each milder virtue and each softer grace ; What tho ...
... hour away , Won by the raptures of a game at play ; He bends to meet each artless burst of joy , Forgets his age , and acts again the boy . What tho ' the iron school of War erase Each milder virtue and each softer grace ; What tho ...
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