Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page xviii
... seen and heard ( and I have lived there in the very highest and what is called the best ) no way of life can be more corrupt . . . . In England the only homage which they pay to virtue is hypocrisy . speak of course of the tone of high ...
... seen and heard ( and I have lived there in the very highest and what is called the best ) no way of life can be more corrupt . . . . In England the only homage which they pay to virtue is hypocrisy . speak of course of the tone of high ...
Page xlv
... seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown , That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown . " For effects of humor and satire , naturally , Byron uses imagery in quite a different manner . Here the rhetorical effect ...
... seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown , That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown . " For effects of humor and satire , naturally , Byron uses imagery in quite a different manner . Here the rhetorical effect ...
Page xlix
... seen and known ; and spoke without exaggeration , without mystery , without enmity , and without mercy . ' That is so ; -make what you will of it ! ' " ... march of humanity . The one is the great modern INTRODUCTION xlix.
... seen and known ; and spoke without exaggeration , without mystery , without enmity , and without mercy . ' That is so ; -make what you will of it ! ' " ... march of humanity . The one is the great modern INTRODUCTION xlix.
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... seen and borne and achieved more than most men on record . ' He was a great man , good at many things , and now he has attained this also , to be at rest . ' " ( A. C. Swinburne , " Essays and Studies , " 258. ) BIBLIOGRAPHY THERE are ...
... seen and borne and achieved more than most men on record . ' He was a great man , good at many things , and now he has attained this also , to be at rest . ' " ( A. C. Swinburne , " Essays and Studies , " 258. ) BIBLIOGRAPHY THERE are ...
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... seen thee , shall I vainly seek To paint those charms which varied as they beam'd— To such as see thee not my words were weak ; To those who gaze on thee what language could they speak ? Ah ! may'st thou ever be what now thou art , Nor ...
... seen thee , shall I vainly seek To paint those charms which varied as they beam'd— To such as see thee not my words were weak ; To those who gaze on thee what language could they speak ? Ah ! may'st thou ever be what now thou art , Nor ...
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