The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With a Memoir, Volume 5Hurd and Houghton, 1879 |
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... sublime , the sarcastic and the pathetic , the gloomy and the droll , are all touched with so happy an art , and mingled together with such a power of union , yet such a discrimination of style , that a perusal of the poem appears more ...
... sublime , the sarcastic and the pathetic , the gloomy and the droll , are all touched with so happy an art , and mingled together with such a power of union , yet such a discrimination of style , that a perusal of the poem appears more ...
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... sublime and lets us down at once on some coarse joke , hard - hearted sarcasm , or fierce and re- entless personality as if on purpose to show - - ' Whoe'er was edified , himself was not ' - or to demonstrate practically as it were ...
... sublime and lets us down at once on some coarse joke , hard - hearted sarcasm , or fierce and re- entless personality as if on purpose to show - - ' Whoe'er was edified , himself was not ' - or to demonstrate practically as it were ...
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... sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step . You laugh and are surprised that any one should turn round , and travestie himself : the drollery is in the utter discon- tinuity of ideas and feelings . He makes virtue serve as a foil ...
... sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step . You laugh and are surprised that any one should turn round , and travestie himself : the drollery is in the utter discon- tinuity of ideas and feelings . He makes virtue serve as a foil ...
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... sublime , " He deigned not to belie his soul in songs , Nor turn his very talent to a crime ; He did not loathe the Sire to laud the Son , But closed the tyrant - hater he begun . XI . Think'st thou , could he · the blind Old Man ...
... sublime , " He deigned not to belie his soul in songs , Nor turn his very talent to a crime ; He did not loathe the Sire to laud the Son , But closed the tyrant - hater he begun . XI . Think'st thou , could he · the blind Old Man ...
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... sublime soars forth on wings more ample ; * [ MS .- " Defending still their Iliads and Odysseys . " } † See Longinus , Section 10 , “ ἵνα μὴ ἔν τι περὶ αὐτὴν λάθος But Virgil's songs are pure , except that horrid one CANTO I. 67 DON JUAN .
... sublime soars forth on wings more ample ; * [ MS .- " Defending still their Iliads and Odysseys . " } † See Longinus , Section 10 , “ ἵνα μὴ ἔν τι περὶ αὐτὴν λάθος But Virgil's songs are pure , except that horrid one CANTO I. 67 DON JUAN .
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