Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page v
... felt , as strangely immature and like a child as soon as he turned to reflection : the whole com- pound a brilliant meteoric genius that dazzled the eyes of Europe for a short generation . To us this Byron becomes a fascinating ...
... felt , as strangely immature and like a child as soon as he turned to reflection : the whole com- pound a brilliant meteoric genius that dazzled the eyes of Europe for a short generation . To us this Byron becomes a fascinating ...
Page vii
... felt him like the thunder's roll . With shivering heart the strife we saw Of passion with eternal law . " All the passions , at one time or another , were at strife within his soul . And yet , early as was the maturity of his passionate ...
... felt him like the thunder's roll . With shivering heart the strife we saw Of passion with eternal law . " All the passions , at one time or another , were at strife within his soul . And yet , early as was the maturity of his passionate ...
Page xix
... felt and recognized as interpenetrating his poetry , but cannot be subtracted and isolated from it . Among the positive ideas of Byron's mind , among the few fixed principles 1 to which he was constant , a love of liberty in all the ...
... felt and recognized as interpenetrating his poetry , but cannot be subtracted and isolated from it . Among the positive ideas of Byron's mind , among the few fixed principles 1 to which he was constant , a love of liberty in all the ...
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... felt not a breath come over his cheek ; What did that sudden sound bespeak ? He turn'd to the left - is he sure of sight ? There sate a lady , youthful and bright ! To the Elizabethan romanticists he ' owes little directly ...
... felt not a breath come over his cheek ; What did that sudden sound bespeak ? He turn'd to the left - is he sure of sight ? There sate a lady , youthful and bright ! To the Elizabethan romanticists he ' owes little directly ...
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... felt pursuits of any description , whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment . " So , in the " Deformed Transformed , " he writes : " From the star To the winding worm , all life is motion ; and ...
... felt pursuits of any description , whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment . " So , in the " Deformed Transformed , " he writes : " From the star To the winding worm , all life is motion ; and ...
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