The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... Perhaps there is no volume in our language of which it can be so truly said as of the present that it is equally exempt from the frail- ties of negligence and the vices of affectation . Exquisite polish of style is , indeed , more ...
... Perhaps there is no volume in our language of which it can be so truly said as of the present that it is equally exempt from the frail- ties of negligence and the vices of affectation . Exquisite polish of style is , indeed , more ...
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... poem in this collection , " he says , " does not fall within the province of our criticism . It has been published many years , and has ac- quired that sort of popularity which is , perhaps , 28 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
... poem in this collection , " he says , " does not fall within the province of our criticism . It has been published many years , and has ac- quired that sort of popularity which is , perhaps , 28 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL ROGERS .
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... perhaps , more decisive than any other single test of merit . It has been generally admired , and , what is not always a certain consequence of being admired , it has been generally read . The circulation of it has not been confined to ...
... perhaps , more decisive than any other single test of merit . It has been generally admired , and , what is not always a certain consequence of being admired , it has been generally read . The circulation of it has not been confined to ...
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... perhaps , intended . He is often himself , in spite of himself . Habit , good taste and an exquisite ear , are constantly bringing him back to the right path , even when he had set out with a resolution to wander from it . Hence ...
... perhaps , intended . He is often himself , in spite of himself . Habit , good taste and an exquisite ear , are constantly bringing him back to the right path , even when he had set out with a resolution to wander from it . Hence ...
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... perhaps in the choice of every one , yet open to the judgment , and familiar to the sympathies , of all . It contains , of course , no story , and no individual characters . It is properly and peculiarly contemplative , and consists in ...
... perhaps in the choice of every one , yet open to the judgment , and familiar to the sympathies , of all . It contains , of course , no story , and no individual characters . It is properly and peculiarly contemplative , and consists in ...
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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.