Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page xii
... Murray in 1821 with a curious mixture of aristocratic vanity and of penetration , speaking of some of the chief poets his contemporaries , " is that they never lived in high life nor in solitude : there is xii INTRODUCTION.
... Murray in 1821 with a curious mixture of aristocratic vanity and of penetration , speaking of some of the chief poets his contemporaries , " is that they never lived in high life nor in solitude : there is xii INTRODUCTION.
Page xvi
... poem on the revival of the movement for national liberty in 1820 , in which Byron shows himself most openly the poet of the Revolution , after reviewing the aspects of contemporary Continental politics , he turns to satirize the vices ...
... poem on the revival of the movement for national liberty in 1820 , in which Byron shows himself most openly the poet of the Revolution , after reviewing the aspects of contemporary Continental politics , he turns to satirize the vices ...
Page xxi
... poem upon Napoleon's betrayal of the cause of liberty : " A single step into the right had made This man the Washington of worlds betrayed : A single step into the wrong has given His name a doubt to all the winds of heaven . " Or again ...
... poem upon Napoleon's betrayal of the cause of liberty : " A single step into the right had made This man the Washington of worlds betrayed : A single step into the wrong has given His name a doubt to all the winds of heaven . " Or again ...
Page xxviii
... poets know him ; but he quotes Falstaff and " Henry IV " perhaps quite as often as the great tragedies . Of the spirit and system of the Elizabethan drama he dis- approved . And from Spenser he takes only the stanza and some of the ...
... poets know him ; but he quotes Falstaff and " Henry IV " perhaps quite as often as the great tragedies . Of the spirit and system of the Elizabethan drama he dis- approved . And from Spenser he takes only the stanza and some of the ...
Page xxix
... poems and my own and some others , and went over them side by side with Pope's , and I was really aston- - ished ( I ought not to have been so ) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense , learning , effect , and even ...
... poems and my own and some others , and went over them side by side with Pope's , and I was really aston- - ished ( I ought not to have been so ) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense , learning , effect , and even ...
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