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Samuel Rogers
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“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.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Wish (1834), ll. 1-4
“That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,— That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) first seen 1813 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On a Tear (c. 1813-5), ll. 21-4
“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 (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To ———, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pæstum, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Hence, to the realms of Night, dire Demon, hence! Thy chain of adamant can bind That little world, the human mind, And sink its noblest powers to impotence.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lo, steel-clad War his gorgeous standard rears ! The red-cross squadrons madly rage, And mow thro' infancy and age”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When nature pleas'd, for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou first, best friend that Heav'n assigns below To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True as the echo to the sound.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Across the threshold led, And every tear kissed off as soon as shed, His house she enters, there to be a light, Shining within, when all without is night; A guardian angel o’er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing!”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then, never less alone than when alone.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Samuel Rogers (attributed)
“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 (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source