...contraries consists a man ! Of what impossible mixtures ! vice and virtue, Corruption, and eternnesse, at one time, And in one subject, let together, loose...Our ornaments are burthens : our delights Are our tormenters ; fiends that, raised in fears, At parting shake our roofs about our ears. So. O Virtue,...

...contraries consists a man ! Of what impossible mixtures ! Vice and virtue, 190 Corruption, and eternnesse, at one time, And in one subject, let together loose...us into air. Our knowledges do light us but to err, 195 Our ornaments are burthens, our delights Are our tormenters, fiends that, rais'd in fears, At parting...

...Vice and virtue, 190 Corruption, and eternnesse, at one time. And in one subject, let together loose I We have not any strength but weakens us, No greatness...us into air. Our knowledges do light us but to err, 195 Our ornaments are burthens, our delights Are our tormenters, fiends that, rais'd in fears, At parting...

...for comparison in an essay upon Mr. Eliot, an essay from which I have already thieved outrageously: Oh, of what contraries consists a man! Of what impossible...delights Are our tormentors: fiends that, raised in tears At parting shake our roofs about our ears. Turning to a corresponding passage in Mr. Eliot, we...

...what contraries consists a man Of what impossible mixtures ! Vice and virtue Corruption and eternesse at one time And in one subject let together loose...err, Our ornaments are burthens, our delights Are our tormenters, fiends that, raised in fears, At parting shake our roofs about our ears. (Byron's Tragedy,...

...contraries consists a man! Of what impossible mixtures! Vice and virtue, Corruption, and eternesse, at one time, And in one subject, let together, loose!...weakens us, No greatness but doth crush us into air. (V, 3, 189-194) Byron, himself, though in him the fault is less than the merit, is compounded of these...