The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... Rogers ' grandfather was a gentleman , pursuing no profession , but his father engaged in banking . " In the banking - house the elder Rogers amassed considerable wealth , which with his business de- scended to his son . But little is ...
... Rogers ' grandfather was a gentleman , pursuing no profession , but his father engaged in banking . " In the banking - house the elder Rogers amassed considerable wealth , which with his business de- scended to his son . But little is ...
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... Rogers , ( and when so done ) he may surrender himself without fear to the criticism of the world at large . " " I can visit , " said the veteran reminiscent , " the justly - admired author of The Pleasures of Memory , and find myself ...
... Rogers , ( and when so done ) he may surrender himself without fear to the criticism of the world at large . " " I can visit , " said the veteran reminiscent , " the justly - admired author of The Pleasures of Memory , and find myself ...
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With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes Samuel Rogers Epes Sargent. the Muses ; and I now publicly call upon Samuel Rogers to answer to his name , and stand forth in the title - page of some future work , that shall be in substance greater ...
With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes Samuel Rogers Epes Sargent. the Muses ; and I now publicly call upon Samuel Rogers to answer to his name , and stand forth in the title - page of some future work , that shall be in substance greater ...
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With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes Samuel Rogers Epes Sargent. ( with whom he afterwards became intimate ) ; and the opinion he then expressed remained the same through life . It was in the year 1798 that Rogers published " An Epistle ...
With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes Samuel Rogers Epes Sargent. ( with whom he afterwards became intimate ) ; and the opinion he then expressed remained the same through life . It was in the year 1798 that Rogers published " An Epistle ...
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With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes Samuel Rogers Epes Sargent. that they rather approached the elegant correctness of our conti- nental neighbors , than supported the daring flight , which , in the former age , had borne ... ROGERS . 15.
With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes Samuel Rogers Epes Sargent. that they rather approached the elegant correctness of our conti- nental neighbors , than supported the daring flight , which , in the former age , had borne ... ROGERS . 15.
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admirable Æneid age to age AMALFI ancient beautiful blest Boccaccio breathe bright called CANTO charm child Cicero clouds Columbus cried dark dead delight distant dream earth Euripides eyes father fear feeling fled Florence flowers forever gazed GENOA glows gold gondolier gone grave grove hand heard heart heaven Hist holy hour light live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Landsdowne lost Madame de Staël mind musing Naples night o'er once Padua passed Petrarch picture pleasure poem poet poetical poetry rise Rogers round sacred sail Samuel Rogers sate says scene seen shade shifting sail shine shore sigh silent sitting sleep smile song soon soul spirit stir stood sung sweet tears thee thine things thou thought Titian turned VENICE Verdea verse voice wander wave weep whence wild wings young youth
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Page 222 - MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Page 325 - Stop at a palace near the Reggio-gate, Dwelt in of old by one of the Orsini. Its noble gardens, terrace above terrace, And rich in fountains, statues, cypresses, Will long detain...
Page 205 - Cabrieres which till then he neglected it is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself he tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects and humbles them at the instant makes them cry complain and repent yea even to hate their...
Page 446 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
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 327 - 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.
Page 56 - 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 404 - Awful memorials, but of whom we know not ! The seaman, passing, gazes from the deck. The buffalo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, Points to the work of magic and moves on. Time was they stood along the crowded street, Temples of gods ! and on their ample steps What various habits, various tongues, beset The brazen gates for prayer and sacrifice...
Page 207 - ... 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 28 - Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.