Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page vi
... less than after reading only the inspired portions , and after following his career step by step , the general impression of this returns to us and abides with us . The war of the members , the contradictory elements in Byron , are ...
... less than after reading only the inspired portions , and after following his career step by step , the general impression of this returns to us and abides with us . The war of the members , the contradictory elements in Byron , are ...
Page xi
... less ennuyé ? and that , if anything , I am rather less so now than I was at twenty , as far as my recollection serves ? I do not know how to answer this , but presume that it is constitutional , —as well as the waking in low spirits ...
... less ennuyé ? and that , if anything , I am rather less so now than I was at twenty , as far as my recollection serves ? I do not know how to answer this , but presume that it is constitutional , —as well as the waking in low spirits ...
Page xiii
... less happy in coming in / the great revolutionary age . And yet Byron came too late to find himself in sympathy with his own times . He caught the inspiration of the movement of en- thusiastic liberalism , progress , and re - birth ...
... less happy in coming in / the great revolutionary age . And yet Byron came too late to find himself in sympathy with his own times . He caught the inspiration of the movement of en- thusiastic liberalism , progress , and re - birth ...
Page xiv
... less stirred his spirit and stimulated his genius as noth- ing else could . We can imagine Byron quite in his element and at home in the days of the early Revolu- tion , or in the days of Fielding and Dr. Johnson in England , if he ...
... less stirred his spirit and stimulated his genius as noth- ing else could . We can imagine Byron quite in his element and at home in the days of the early Revolu- tion , or in the days of Fielding and Dr. Johnson in England , if he ...
Page xviii
... less moral , than they were before the prevalence of this verbal decorum . " Byron certainly was not one of those who exist only by taking the tone of the time . However mixed were his motives , and however exaggerated the indictment he ...
... less moral , than they were before the prevalence of this verbal decorum . " Byron certainly was not one of those who exist only by taking the tone of the time . However mixed were his motives , and however exaggerated the indictment he ...
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