Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page xi
... mind ill at ease for a considerable period . Such are the causes ( I do not name them as excuses ) which have frequently driven me into excess , and disqualified my temper for comfort . Something also may be attributed to the strange ...
... mind ill at ease for a considerable period . Such are the causes ( I do not name them as excuses ) which have frequently driven me into excess , and disqualified my temper for comfort . Something also may be attributed to the strange ...
Page xiv
... mind in any attempt to com- prehend the whole of his genius . We can also imagine Byron more at his ease in the ... minds were still a fertile soil for the seeds of revolutionary enthusiasms . • Much of Byron's opposition to his age was ...
... mind in any attempt to com- prehend the whole of his genius . We can also imagine Byron more at his ease in the ... minds were still a fertile soil for the seeds of revolutionary enthusiasms . • Much of Byron's opposition to his age was ...
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... mind , among the few fixed principles 1 to which he was constant , a love of liberty in all the senses of the word and a sympathy with freedom and free institutions were perhaps the most constant . And this in spite of certain ...
... mind , among the few fixed principles 1 to which he was constant , a love of liberty in all the senses of the word and a sympathy with freedom and free institutions were perhaps the most constant . And this in spite of certain ...
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... 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 importance apart from his poetry . But that his ...
... 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 importance apart from his poetry . But that his ...
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... mind as much as other kinds of hypochondria . " 66 In a certain sense Manfred and " Cain " ' may be called studies in doubt ; they are certainly Byron's greatest poetical expression of his speculative moods and ideas . Many passages ...
... mind as much as other kinds of hypochondria . " 66 In a certain sense Manfred and " Cain " ' may be called studies in doubt ; they are certainly Byron's greatest poetical expression of his speculative moods and ideas . Many passages ...
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