Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page xii
... 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.
... 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.
Page xviii
... speak of course of the tone of high life , —the middle ranks may be very virtuous . " ... 66 And once again in a passage in his Letter on Bowles ' Strictures on Pope " : " The truth is that in these days the grand primum mobile of ...
... speak of course of the tone of high life , —the middle ranks may be very virtuous . " ... 66 And once again in a passage in his Letter on Bowles ' Strictures on Pope " : " The truth is that in these days the grand primum mobile of ...
Page xxxiv
... speak their 1 Cf. Byron's remark : " ... My first impressions are always strong and confused , and my memory selects and reduces them to order , like distance in the landscape . . . . " language . " The abstracting and visionary power ...
... speak their 1 Cf. Byron's remark : " ... My first impressions are always strong and confused , and my memory selects and reduces them to order , like distance in the landscape . . . . " language . " The abstracting and visionary power ...
Page xlii
... , strong or weak , All that I would have sought , and all I seek , Bear , know , feel , and yet breathe - into one word , And that one word were Lightning , I would speak . ” 66 This may stand for us as the emblem of xlii INTRODUCTION.
... , strong or weak , All that I would have sought , and all I seek , Bear , know , feel , and yet breathe - into one word , And that one word were Lightning , I would speak . ” 66 This may stand for us as the emblem of xlii INTRODUCTION.
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... speak ? Ah ! may'st thou ever be what now thou art , Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring , As fair in form , as warm yet pure in heart , Love's image upon earth without his wing , And guileless beyond Hope's imagining ! And surely ...
... speak ? Ah ! may'st thou ever be what now thou art , Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring , As fair in form , as warm yet pure in heart , Love's image upon earth without his wing , And guileless beyond Hope's imagining ! And surely ...
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