Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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... head had just been examined by Spurzheim the craniologist , “ a discoverer of faculties and dispositions from the heads . He says all mine are strongly marked , but very antithetical , for everything developed in or on this same skull ...
... head had just been examined by Spurzheim the craniologist , “ a discoverer of faculties and dispositions from the heads . He says all mine are strongly marked , but very antithetical , for everything developed in or on this same skull ...
Page xxii
... head , for the sincerity of Byron's loyalty to the cause of political freedom has sometimes in recent years been questioned.1 A poet has the right to be judged by his best , and Byron surely has the right to be ranked with Milton and ...
... head , for the sincerity of Byron's loyalty to the cause of political freedom has sometimes in recent years been questioned.1 A poet has the right to be judged by his best , and Byron surely has the right to be ranked with Milton and ...
Page xxvii
... recited : " There he sate all heavily , As he heard the night - wind sigh . Was it the wind , through some hollow stone , Sent that soft and tender moan ? - He lifted his head , and he look'd on the INTRODUCTION XXVII.
... recited : " There he sate all heavily , As he heard the night - wind sigh . Was it the wind , through some hollow stone , Sent that soft and tender moan ? - He lifted his head , and he look'd on the INTRODUCTION XXVII.
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George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Frederic Ives Carpenter. He lifted his head , and he look'd on the sea , But it was unrippled as glass may be ; He look'd on the long grass - it waved not a blade ; How was that gentle sound convey'd ? He ...
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Frederic Ives Carpenter. He lifted his head , and he look'd on the sea , But it was unrippled as glass may be ; He look'd on the long grass - it waved not a blade ; How was that gentle sound convey'd ? He ...
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... heads One thought , one grace , one wonder , at the least , Which into words no virtue can digest . " So Byron : " Of its own beauty is the mind diseased , And fevers into false creation : —where , Where are the forms the sculptor's ...
... heads One thought , one grace , one wonder , at the least , Which into words no virtue can digest . " So Byron : " Of its own beauty is the mind diseased , And fevers into false creation : —where , Where are the forms the sculptor's ...
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