The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With a Memoir, Volume 5Hurd and Houghton, 1879 |
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... man who has that clear perception of the truth of things , which is the result of the guilty knowledge of good and evil ; and who , by the light of that knowledge , has deliberately preferred the evil , with a proud malignity of pur ...
... man who has that clear perception of the truth of things , which is the result of the guilty knowledge of good and evil ; and who , by the light of that knowledge , has deliberately preferred the evil , with a proud malignity of pur ...
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... man ; That I must say , who knew him very well . ' If , then , he is this honorable man , we shall not call in vain for an act of justice at his hands , in declaring that he did not mean his word to be taken , when , for the sake of a ...
... man ; That I must say , who knew him very well . ' If , then , he is this honorable man , we shall not call in vain for an act of justice at his hands , in declaring that he did not mean his word to be taken , when , for the sake of a ...
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... man- and of woman- all the hidden convulsions of a wicked spirit- without one symptom of contrition , remorse , or hesitation , with a calm , careless ferociousness of contented and satisfied deprav- ity this was an insult which no man ...
... man- and of woman- all the hidden convulsions of a wicked spirit- without one symptom of contrition , remorse , or hesitation , with a calm , careless ferociousness of contented and satisfied deprav- ity this was an insult which no man ...
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... Man , who has any knowledge of the nature of Woman , that a female such as Lord Byron has himself described his wife to be , would rashly , or hastily , or lightly , separate herself , from the love with which she had once been inspired ...
... Man , who has any knowledge of the nature of Woman , that a female such as Lord Byron has himself described his wife to be , would rashly , or hastily , or lightly , separate herself , from the love with which she had once been inspired ...
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... man of genius , that equal indecencies have been forgiven to his predecessors : but the precedent of lenity might have been fol- lowed ; and we might have passed both the levity and the volup- tuousness -the dangerous warmth of his ...
... man of genius , that equal indecencies have been forgiven to his predecessors : but the precedent of lenity might have been fol- lowed ; and we might have passed both the levity and the volup- tuousness -the dangerous warmth of his ...
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