The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
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Page 36
... probably saw , more- over , that it was his imagination rather than the impera- tive call of special faculties and endowments , which had led to his desire to preach ; and there was no sign what- I have not seen the letter , but the Rev ...
... probably saw , more- over , that it was his imagination rather than the impera- tive call of special faculties and endowments , which had led to his desire to preach ; and there was no sign what- I have not seen the letter , but the Rev ...
Page 37
... probably told this story because it showed an unregulated and childish form of the desire for dis- tinction which was an important element of his char- acter as a young man . There seemed but little chance of his distinguishing himself ...
... probably told this story because it showed an unregulated and childish form of the desire for dis- tinction which was an important element of his char- acter as a young man . There seemed but little chance of his distinguishing himself ...
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Peter William Clayden. On tinguish himself , and probably anticipated his entering Parliament and reaching the higher ranks of the pro- fession . But Daniel never took either to the law or to banking . He lived and died a country ...
Peter William Clayden. On tinguish himself , and probably anticipated his entering Parliament and reaching the higher ranks of the pro- fession . But Daniel never took either to the law or to banking . He lived and died a country ...
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... probably at Coventry , where he was one of the Whig candidates . His colleague was Sir Thomas Halifax , and the Tory candidates were Mr. Edward Roe Yeo and Mr. John Baker Holroyd , afterwards Lord Sheffield . The contest was one which ...
... probably at Coventry , where he was one of the Whig candidates . His colleague was Sir Thomas Halifax , and the Tory candidates were Mr. Edward Roe Yeo and Mr. John Baker Holroyd , afterwards Lord Sheffield . The contest was one which ...
Page 48
... when he woke in the morning . This annoyance was probably due to his weak health . Every year during his clerkship at the bank he took long MARGATE IN 1785 49 holidays at Margate or at Brighton 48 EARLY LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS.
... when he woke in the morning . This annoyance was probably due to his weak health . Every year during his clerkship at the bank he took long MARGATE IN 1785 49 holidays at Margate or at Brighton 48 EARLY LIFE OF SAMUEL ROGERS.
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Page 219 - Her tattered mantle, and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips, her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore, Imps, in the barn with mousing owlet bred, From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ; Whose dark eyes flashed through locks of blackest shade, When in the breeze the distant watch-dog bayed...
Page 221 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 83 - I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 406 - 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.
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Page 25 - How soon by his the glad discovery shows ! As to her lips she lifts the lovely boy, What answering looks of sympathy and joy ! He walks, he speaks. In many a broken word His wants, his wishes, and his griefs are heard. And ever, ever to her lap he flies, When rosy Sleep comes on with sweet surprise.
Page 235 - Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue Some long-loved image vanished from her view; Dart thro...
Page 114 - I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
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Page 25 - ... his tongue), As with soft accents round her neck he clings, And, cheek to cheek, her lulling song she sings, How blest to feel the beatings of his heart, Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart ; Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love ! But soon a nobler task demands her care. Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there...