PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page xii
... never forgot , when his father one night after reading the Bible to his family , closed the book and explained to his children the cause of the rebellion , adding , that our nation was in the wrong , and that it was not right to wish ...
... never forgot , when his father one night after reading the Bible to his family , closed the book and explained to his children the cause of the rebellion , adding , that our nation was in the wrong , and that it was not right to wish ...
Page xxi
... ' Devout yet cheerful , active yet resigned ; ' Grant me like thee , whose heart knew no disguise , " Whose blameless wishes never aimed to rise , " ' To meet the changes Time and Chance present LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . xxi.
... ' Devout yet cheerful , active yet resigned ; ' Grant me like thee , whose heart knew no disguise , " Whose blameless wishes never aimed to rise , " ' To meet the changes Time and Chance present LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS . xxi.
Page xxiii
... never told to call upon the author of the Cotter's Saturday Night . Burns was driven by neglect to become an officer of the Excise in the very year that Mr. Rogers , with whom poetry was the uppermost thought in his mind , was asking to ...
... never told to call upon the author of the Cotter's Saturday Night . Burns was driven by neglect to become an officer of the Excise in the very year that Mr. Rogers , with whom poetry was the uppermost thought in his mind , was asking to ...
Page xxxiii
... Never go near them , Sam . ' But their doors were now open to the young and wealthy poet ; and he did not refuse to enter . At Lady Jersey's parties he was a frequent visitor ; and with his Epistle to a Friend , ' in 1798 , he published ...
... Never go near them , Sam . ' But their doors were now open to the young and wealthy poet ; and he did not refuse to enter . At Lady Jersey's parties he was a frequent visitor ; and with his Epistle to a Friend , ' in 1798 , he published ...
Page xxxix
... never took the trouble to vote on a contested election till another friend , Sir Samuel Romilly , was proposed as member for West- minster in 1818 . In 1806 , his sister Maria Sharpe died ; and in his ' Human Life , ' he describes what ...
... never took the trouble to vote on a contested election till another friend , Sir Samuel Romilly , was proposed as member for West- minster in 1818 . In 1806 , his sister Maria Sharpe died ; and in his ' Human Life , ' he describes what ...
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