Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page ix
... feeling that every one's hand was against him . There is his melancholy and his moodiness and his love of solitude . There is his improvident extrava- gance , balanced in later years by freaks of avarice ; his " silent rages " and ...
... feeling that every one's hand was against him . There is his melancholy and his moodiness and his love of solitude . There is his improvident extrava- gance , balanced in later years by freaks of avarice ; his " silent rages " and ...
Page xi
... feel a something which makes me think that , if I ever reach near to old age , like Swift , ' I shall die at top ' first . Only I do not dread idiotism or madness On the contrary , I think some quieter stages of both must be preferable ...
... feel a something which makes me think that , if I ever reach near to old age , like Swift , ' I shall die at top ' first . Only I do not dread idiotism or madness On the contrary , I think some quieter stages of both must be preferable ...
Page xiv
... feeling in the early Byron as in the later prose Byron ; and this , which is another of the contradictions in his char- acter , must be borne in mind in any attempt to com- prehend the whole of his genius . We can also imagine Byron ...
... feeling in the early Byron as in the later prose Byron ; and this , which is another of the contradictions in his char- acter , must be borne in mind in any attempt to com- prehend the whole of his genius . We can also imagine Byron ...
Page xx
... feeling , as I trust I do , independently . However , when a proper spirit is manifested without doors , ' I will endeavour not to be idle within . Do you think such a time is coming ? Me- thinks there are gleams of it . My forefathers ...
... feeling , as I trust I do , independently . However , when a proper spirit is manifested without doors , ' I will endeavour not to be idle within . Do you think such a time is coming ? Me- thinks there are gleams of it . My forefathers ...
Page xxi
... feel as if talking with posterity from the other side of the Styx . In a century or two the new English and Spanish Atlantides will be masters of the old countries , in all probability , as Greece and Europe overcame their mother Asia ...
... feel as if talking with posterity from the other side of the Styx . In a century or two the new English and Spanish Atlantides will be masters of the old countries , in all probability , as Greece and Europe overcame their mother Asia ...
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