Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page v
... from the personal Byron , but whom we should judge , as we judge other poets , by the best half of his work , in which , as Matthew Arnold , a poet writing of a poet , so finely says : " Nature herself seemed to take the pen from him.
... from the personal Byron , but whom we should judge , as we judge other poets , by the best half of his work , in which , as Matthew Arnold , a poet writing of a poet , so finely says : " Nature herself seemed to take the pen from him.
Page vi
... nature , with the difficulty of disentangling the real Byron from the false Byron . For , contradictory and complex as are most modern characters , few have been more so than Byron . A histrionic strain was prominent in him from the ...
... nature , with the difficulty of disentangling the real Byron from the false Byron . For , contradictory and complex as are most modern characters , few have been more so than Byron . A histrionic strain was prominent in him from the ...
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... nature , we can trace the development of it through several stages . His ancestry and his parentage explain much . His genius remains únderivable , but his energy , his courage , his love of adventure , and the seeds of much that ...
... nature , we can trace the development of it through several stages . His ancestry and his parentage explain much . His genius remains únderivable , but his energy , his courage , his love of adventure , and the seeds of much that ...
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... nature against the cant and conventionality of much of the life around him . In 1808 he writes to his sister from Newstead : " I live here much in my own manner , that is , alone , for I could not bear the company of my best friend ...
... nature against the cant and conventionality of much of the life around him . In 1808 he writes to his sister from Newstead : " I live here much in my own manner , that is , alone , for I could not bear the company of my best friend ...
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... nature . Much of it was purely personal resent- ment against the England and the Englishmen who had turned against him in 1816 at the time of the scandal of Lady Byron's separation from him . " I abhor the nation and the nation me ...
... nature . Much of it was purely personal resent- ment against the England and the Englishmen who had turned against him in 1816 at the time of the scandal of Lady Byron's separation from him . " I abhor the nation and the nation me ...
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