Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page iv
... written on the road between Florence and Pisa · 300 Song of the South - Sea Islanders ( from the " Island " ) • On this day I complete my thirty - sixth year . NOTES : To Childe Harold's Pilgrimage To the Prisoner of Chillon . To ...
... written on the road between Florence and Pisa · 300 Song of the South - Sea Islanders ( from the " Island " ) • On this day I complete my thirty - sixth year . NOTES : To Childe Harold's Pilgrimage To the Prisoner of Chillon . To ...
Page v
... personal Byron , but whom we should judge , as we judge other poets , by the best half of his work , in which , as Matthew Arnold , a poet writing of a poet , so finely says : " Nature herself seemed to take the pen from him.
... personal Byron , but whom we should judge , as we judge other poets , by the best half of his work , in which , as Matthew Arnold , a poet writing of a poet , so finely says : " Nature herself seemed to take the pen from him.
Page viii
... written in 1811 , before his cynicism was anything more than youthful and nascent , he writes : " You must excuse my being à little cynical , knowing how my temper was tried in my nonage ; the manner in which I was brought up must ...
... written in 1811 , before his cynicism was anything more than youthful and nascent , he writes : " You must excuse my being à little cynical , knowing how my temper was tried in my nonage ; the manner in which I was brought up must ...
Page x
... written after the break with Lady Byron in 1816 , although 1 Compare with this the passage in " Childe Harold , " C. III , stanzas 113 , 114 . referring particularly to that affair , hints fairly enough . X INTRODUCTION.
... written after the break with Lady Byron in 1816 , although 1 Compare with this the passage in " Childe Harold , " C. III , stanzas 113 , 114 . referring particularly to that affair , hints fairly enough . X INTRODUCTION.
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... writing to Murray in 1820 : " You talk of refinement : -are you all more moral ? are you so moral ? No such thing . I know what the world is in England , by my own proper experience of the best of it at least of the loftiest ; and I ...
... writing to Murray in 1820 : " You talk of refinement : -are you all more moral ? are you so moral ? No such thing . I know what the world is in England , by my own proper experience of the best of it at least of the loftiest ; and I ...
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