Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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... letters , journals , the testimony alike of friends , of enemies , and of indifferent contemporaries , as well as all the verses , the bad with the good , which flowed so readily from his incontinent pen . On the other hand there is ...
... letters , journals , the testimony alike of friends , of enemies , and of indifferent contemporaries , as well as all the verses , the bad with the good , which flowed so readily from his incontinent pen . On the other hand there is ...
Page vii
... letter to Miss Milbanke ( Sept. 16 , 1814 ? ) he relates that his 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 ...
... letter to Miss Milbanke ( Sept. 16 , 1814 ? ) he relates that his 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 ...
Page viii
... letter to his half - sister Augusta , written in 1811 , before his cynicism was anything more than youthful and nascent , he writes : " You must excuse my being a little cynical , knowing how my temper was tried in my nonage ; the ...
... letter to his half - sister Augusta , written in 1811 , before his cynicism was anything more than youthful and nascent , he writes : " You must excuse my being a little cynical , knowing how my temper was tried in my nonage ; the ...
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... letter is another proof in favour of my opinion of mankind . Such you will always find them - selfish and ... letters on this subject is , more suo , mainly pose and display . Yet Byron was always frank , if sometimes more than frank ...
... letter is another proof in favour of my opinion of mankind . Such you will always find them - selfish and ... letters on this subject is , more suo , mainly pose and display . Yet Byron was always frank , if sometimes more than frank ...
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... letters and journals of his later years : " What is the reason that I have been , all my lifetime , more or less ennuyé ? and ... ( Letter to Shelley , Apr. 26 , 1821. ) " I am not sure that long life is desirable for one of my temper and ...
... letters and journals of his later years : " What is the reason that I have been , all my lifetime , more or less ennuyé ? and ... ( Letter to Shelley , Apr. 26 , 1821. ) " I am not sure that long life is desirable for one of my temper and ...
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