Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page viii
... spirit , or ren- dered a fiery one ungovernable ; the effect it has had on mine I need not state . " Afterwards it was the world at large and especially the times in which he lived which had the greatest in- fluence in the formation of ...
... spirit , or ren- dered a fiery one ungovernable ; the effect it has had on mine I need not state . " Afterwards it was the world at large and especially the times in which he lived which had the greatest in- fluence in the formation of ...
Page xi
... spirits , which I have invariably done for many years . Temperance and exercise , which I have practised at times , and for a long time together vigorously and violently , made little or no difference . Violent passions did ; when under ...
... spirits , which I have invariably done for many years . Temperance and exercise , which I have practised at times , and for a long time together vigorously and violently , made little or no difference . Violent passions did ; when under ...
Page xiv
... spirit and stimulated his genius as noth- ing else could . We can imagine Byron quite in his element and at home in the days of the early Revolu- tion , or in the days of Fielding and Dr. Johnson in England , if he could have been ...
... spirit and stimulated his genius as noth- ing else could . We can imagine Byron quite in his element and at home in the days of the early Revolu- tion , or in the days of Fielding and Dr. Johnson in England , if he could have been ...
Page xix
... spirit , the passionate outcry against all that imposes upon and enslaves the human will , the yearning after an ideal quite other than and differ- ent from that towards which most human life is aiming , the apotheosis of struggle and ...
... spirit , the passionate outcry against all that imposes upon and enslaves the human will , the yearning after an ideal quite other than and differ- ent from that towards which most human life is aiming , the apotheosis of struggle and ...
Page xx
... spirit is manifested without doors , ' I will endeavour not to be idle within . Do you think such a time is coming ? Me- thinks there are gleams of it . My forefathers were on the other side of the question in Charles ' days , and the ...
... spirit is manifested without doors , ' I will endeavour not to be idle within . Do you think such a time is coming ? Me- thinks there are gleams of it . My forefathers were on the other side of the question in Charles ' days , and the ...
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