Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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... whole com- pound a brilliant meteoric genius that dazzled the eyes of Europe for a short generation . To us this Byron becomes a fascinating psychological study , a document in humanity , baffling our analysis , as he himself baffled ...
... whole com- pound a brilliant meteoric genius that dazzled the eyes of Europe for a short generation . To us this Byron becomes a fascinating psychological study , a document in humanity , baffling our analysis , as he himself baffled ...
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... whole , and they grow so much more disgusting every day , that , were it not for a portion of ambition , and a conviction that in times like the present we ought to perform our respective duties , I should live here all my life in ...
... whole , and they grow so much more disgusting every day , that , were it not for a portion of ambition , and a conviction that in times like the present we ought to perform our respective duties , I should live here all my life in ...
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... whole of his genius . We can also imagine Byron more at his ease in the later days of reform which came after his death and the later revolutions which had their beginning in Italy , Spain , and Greece , and for which he gave up his ...
... whole of his genius . We can also imagine Byron more at his ease in the later days of reform which came after his death and the later revolutions which had their beginning in Italy , Spain , and Greece , and for which he gave up his ...
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... whole course of his life , as of his writings , was sincerely in protest against what was fundamentally outworn and false and hypocritical in the social organ- ization of the day . The smug unintelligence of the contemporary treatment ...
... whole course of his life , as of his writings , was sincerely in protest against what was fundamentally outworn and false and hypocritical in the social organ- ization of the day . The smug unintelligence of the contemporary treatment ...
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... whole of which it is an atom , that first led me to imagine that our pretensions to eternity might be overrated . This , and being early disgusted with a Calvinistic Scotch school , where I was cudgelled to church for the first ten ...
... whole of which it is an atom , that first led me to imagine that our pretensions to eternity might be overrated . This , and being early disgusted with a Calvinistic Scotch school , where I was cudgelled to church for the first ten ...
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