Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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... never cold . " " In later years Byron's character hardened while it matured . There was a time in Italy when the baser qualities overruled the rest , and he became something of the " Inglese italianato of the proverb . But this time was ...
... never cold . " " In later years Byron's character hardened while it matured . There was a time in Italy when the baser qualities overruled the rest , and he became something of the " Inglese italianato of the proverb . But this time was ...
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... writes to Murray in 1821 with a curious mixture of aristocratic vanity and of penetration , speaking of some of the chief poets his contemporaries , " is that they never " " lived in high life nor in solitude : there is xii INTRODUCTION.
... writes to Murray in 1821 with a curious mixture of aristocratic vanity and of penetration , speaking of some of the chief poets his contemporaries , " is that they never " " lived in high life nor in solitude : there is xii INTRODUCTION.
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... never courted it then , when I was young and high in blood , and one of its ' curled darlings ' ; and do you think I would do so now , when I am living in a clearer atmos- phere ? One thing only might lead me back to it , and that is to ...
... never courted it then , when I was young and high in blood , and one of its ' curled darlings ' ; and do you think I would do so now , when I am living in a clearer atmos- phere ? One thing only might lead me back to it , and that is to ...
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... never regain the other ; but no matter there are things , even in this world , better than either . " Or again , when in 1821 he writes : " There must be an universal republic , —and there ought to be . " Or his enthusiasm for the ...
... never regain the other ; but no matter there are things , even in this world , better than either . " Or again , when in 1821 he writes : " There must be an universal republic , —and there ought to be . " Or his enthusiasm for the ...
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... never made anything to be tortured in an- other life , whatever it may in this . " And to Miss Milbanke in 1813 : " I believe doubtless in God , and should be happy to be con- vinced of much more . If I do not at present place implicit ...
... never made anything to be tortured in an- other life , whatever it may in this . " And to Miss Milbanke in 1813 : " I believe doubtless in God , and should be happy to be con- vinced of much more . If I do not at present place implicit ...
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