Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page ix
... every day , that , were it not for a portion of ambition , and a conviction that in times like the present we ought to perform our respective duties , I should live here all my life in unvaried solitude . . I INTRODUCTION ix.
... every day , that , were it not for a portion of ambition , and a conviction that in times like the present we ought to perform our respective duties , I should live here all my life in unvaried solitude . . I INTRODUCTION ix.
Page xx
... present property in the funds , what have I to gain by a revolution ? " But with this utterance should be compared what Byron wrote to Leigh Hunt in 1816 explaining why he was not more active in Parliament . The corruption and ...
... present property in the funds , what have I to gain by a revolution ? " But with this utterance should be compared what Byron wrote to Leigh Hunt in 1816 explaining why he was not more active in Parliament . The corruption and ...
Page xxv
... present exist- ence , is another question ; but that the mind is eternal seems as probable as that the body is not so . " " In revealed religion Byron apparently did not believe . In 1807 he asserts that he is a deist ; and in 1811 he ...
... present exist- ence , is another question ; but that the mind is eternal seems as probable as that the body is not so . " " In revealed religion Byron apparently did not believe . In 1807 he asserts that he is a deist ; and in 1811 he ...
Page xxix
... present and next generations will finally be of this opinion . I am more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics , particularly Pope , whom I tried in this way , I took Moore's poems and my own and some others ...
... present and next generations will finally be of this opinion . I am more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics , particularly Pope , whom I tried in this way , I took Moore's poems and my own and some others ...
Page xlvi
... present some element of human association or emotion , as in " A shrivell'd scroll , a scatter'd leaf . " 2 so in his descriptions of nature Byron habitually and on principle compares natural things with human .. Thus , in his ...
... present some element of human association or emotion , as in " A shrivell'd scroll , a scatter'd leaf . " 2 so in his descriptions of nature Byron habitually and on principle compares natural things with human .. Thus , in his ...
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