Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page v
... humanity , baffling our analysis , as he himself baffled his own analysis . For this study it is plain that we need all the evidence obtainable , letters , journals , the testimony alike of friends , of enemies , and of indifferent ...
... humanity , baffling our analysis , as he himself baffled his own analysis . For this study it is plain that we need all the evidence obtainable , letters , journals , the testimony alike of friends , of enemies , and of indifferent ...
Page vii
... human breast is no new or peculiar thing ; but Byron's poetry is , as was his life , a field where the conflict appears pre - eminently desperate and magnificent . " He taught us little ; but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's ...
... human breast is no new or peculiar thing ; but Byron's poetry is , as was his life , a field where the conflict appears pre - eminently desperate and magnificent . " He taught us little ; but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's ...
Page xviii
... human actions ; the English being no wiser , no better , and much poorer and more divided amongst themselves , as well as far less moral , than they were before the prevalence of this verbal decorum . " Byron certainly was not one of ...
... human actions ; the English being no wiser , no better , and much poorer and more divided amongst themselves , as well as far less moral , than they were before the prevalence of this verbal decorum . " Byron certainly was not one of ...
Page xix
... human will , the yearning after an ideal quite other than and differ- ent from that towards which most human life is aiming , the apotheosis of struggle and energy and boundless force , which mark Byron at his greatest , are rather ...
... human will , the yearning after an ideal quite other than and differ- ent from that towards which most human life is aiming , the apotheosis of struggle and energy and boundless force , which mark Byron at his greatest , are rather ...
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... human destiny , faith , and duty . Not that Byron's mind was essentially philosophical like Wordsworth's , or that his philosophy of life ( if indeed he ever attained any fully articulate philosophy of life ) is of permanent interest or ...
... human destiny , faith , and duty . Not that Byron's mind was essentially philosophical like Wordsworth's , or that his philosophy of life ( if indeed he ever attained any fully articulate philosophy of life ) is of permanent interest or ...
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