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• Oh! she was good as she was fair.
  None-none on earth above her!
  As pure in thought as angels are,
  To know her was to love her.

  Samuel Rogers

  Love, Life, Angel

  Samuel Rogers, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Stothard (1834). “Poems”, p.142, London : Printed for T. Cadell, and E. Moxon

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• Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

  Samuel Rogers

  Men, Example, Action

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• Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

  Samuel Rogers

  Sunset, Play, Long

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell (1858). “The pleasures of memory, by S. Rogers. The pleasures of hope, by T. Campbell”, p.22

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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Twilight, Games, Play

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

  Samuel Rogers

  Running, Morning, Art

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.70

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• And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

  Samuel Rogers

  Musical, Mountain, Sound

  Samuel Rogers (1836). “Poems”, p.85

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• A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

  Samuel Rogers

  Life, Angel, Caring

  Samuel Rogers (1856). “Poetical works”, p.147

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• The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

  Samuel Rogers

  Made, Ill, Crushed

  Samuel Rogers (1836). “Poems”, p.154

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• Mine be a cot beside the hill;
  A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
  A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
  With many a fall shall linger near.

  Samuel Rogers

  Fall, Ears, Bees

  Samuel Rogers (1843). “Poems”, p.215

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• Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.

  Samuel Rogers

  Love, Long, Gone

  'Human Life' (1819) l. 755

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• Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

  Samuel Rogers

  Thinking, Achievement, Done

  'Human Life' (1819) l. 49.

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• But the day is spent;
  And stars are kindling in the firmament,
  To us how silent--though like ours, perchance,
  Busy and full of life and circumstance.

  Samuel Rogers

  Stars, Busy, Silent

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.204

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• When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

  Samuel Rogers

  Foundation, Treasure, Care

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• Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

  Samuel Rogers

  Thinking, Paris, Mind

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• 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.

  Samuel Rogers

  Gay, May, Madness

  'To - , 1814'

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