Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page vii
... seem to hold from the paternal line ; his irritability , waywardness , generosity , and occasional self - devotion , the strain of fitful mor- bidity in him , and perhaps his latent enthusiasm , from the maternal . His physical ...
... seem to hold from the paternal line ; his irritability , waywardness , generosity , and occasional self - devotion , the strain of fitful mor- bidity in him , and perhaps his latent enthusiasm , from the maternal . His physical ...
Page viii
... seem latent or patent from his youth . There is his pride , —of which he was not a little proud . " To the charge of pride I suspect I must plead guilty , " he writes to Miss Milbanke in 1813 ( with some complacency and in the rôle of ...
... seem latent or patent from his youth . There is his pride , —of which he was not a little proud . " To the charge of pride I suspect I must plead guilty , " he writes to Miss Milbanke in 1813 ( with some complacency and in the rôle of ...
Page xi
... seems hopeless , —and there is nothing more to be said . " After this the last step is to the wilful cynicism of " Don Juan " or the melancholy note of such passages as these from letters and journals of his later years : " What is the ...
... seems hopeless , —and there is nothing more to be said . " After this the last step is to the wilful cynicism of " Don Juan " or the melancholy note of such passages as these from letters and journals of his later years : " What is the ...
Page xxiv
... seem fairly well fixed in Byron's mind . In his earlier and middle years he strongly doubts individual immortality . in 1811 : Thus he writes to his friend Hodgson 1 " I will have nothing to do with your immortality ; we are miserable ...
... seem fairly well fixed in Byron's mind . In his earlier and middle years he strongly doubts individual immortality . in 1811 : Thus he writes to his friend Hodgson 1 " I will have nothing to do with your immortality ; we are miserable ...
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... seems as probable as that the body is not so . " In revealed religion Byron apparently did not believe . In 1807 he asserts that he is a deist ; and in 1811 he writes to Hodgson : " I do not believe in any revealed religion , because no ...
... seems as probable as that the body is not so . " In revealed religion Byron apparently did not believe . In 1807 he asserts that he is a deist ; and in 1811 he writes to Hodgson : " I do not believe in any revealed religion , because no ...
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