Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page vii
... appears pre - eminently desperate and magnificent . " He taught us little ; but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's roll . With shivering heart the strife we saw Of passion with eternal law . " All the passions , at one time or ...
... appears pre - eminently desperate and magnificent . " He taught us little ; but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's roll . With shivering heart the strife we saw Of passion with eternal law . " All the passions , at one time or ...
Page xx
... appear as a lukewarm republican . As , for example , when in the course of his controversy with Southey he writes as follows : " It is the fashion to attribute everything to the French Revo- lution and the French Revolution to ...
... appear as a lukewarm republican . As , for example , when in the course of his controversy with Southey he writes as follows : " It is the fashion to attribute everything to the French Revo- lution and the French Revolution to ...
Page xxiv
... appears to me that there can be little doubt , if we attend for a moment to the action of the mind : 1 Apropos of the opening stanzas of Canto II of " Childe Harold . " • it is in perpetual activity . I used to xxiv INTRODUCTION.
... appears to me that there can be little doubt , if we attend for a moment to the action of the mind : 1 Apropos of the opening stanzas of Canto II of " Childe Harold . " • it is in perpetual activity . I used to xxiv INTRODUCTION.
Page xxv
... appears , Byron stood firm . As he writes in his scoffing and satirical vein in his " Vision of Judgment " : " I hardly know too if not quite alone am I In this small hope of bettering future ill By circumscribing , with some slight ...
... appears , Byron stood firm . As he writes in his scoffing and satirical vein in his " Vision of Judgment " : " I hardly know too if not quite alone am I In this small hope of bettering future ill By circumscribing , with some slight ...
Page xxxiii
... appears to be in him a disease . Byron is frank , but at times we would prefer not to be admitted so freely into his confidence . This doubtless Moore and his committee felt when they destroyed Byron's posthumous prose autobiography ...
... appears to be in him a disease . Byron is frank , but at times we would prefer not to be admitted so freely into his confidence . This doubtless Moore and his committee felt when they destroyed Byron's posthumous prose autobiography ...
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