Byron: His Achievement and SignificanceGrian-Aig Press, 1976 - 120 pages |
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... sense ' which laughs at youthful ' sensibility ' . 10 . 11 . Then wherefore should we sigh and whine , With groundless jealousy repine , With silly whims and fancies frantic , Merely to make our love romantic ? Why should you weep like ...
... sense ' which laughs at youthful ' sensibility ' . 10 . 11 . Then wherefore should we sigh and whine , With groundless jealousy repine , With silly whims and fancies frantic , Merely to make our love romantic ? Why should you weep like ...
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... sense of history , an eye which discerned the importance of the European political scene together with a mind and temperament to interpret it . Childe Harold is thus far from being a mere versified travelogue . - But over and above all ...
... sense of history , an eye which discerned the importance of the European political scene together with a mind and temperament to interpret it . Childe Harold is thus far from being a mere versified travelogue . - But over and above all ...
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... sense of guilt , both fatally attractive to women who are as much the seducers as the seduced . In this last characteristic Don Juan is in a sense an involuntary self - portrait : for as he once indignantly retorted when someone accused ...
... sense of guilt , both fatally attractive to women who are as much the seducers as the seduced . In this last characteristic Don Juan is in a sense an involuntary self - portrait : for as he once indignantly retorted when someone accused ...
Contents
Hours of Idleness | 1 |
The Satirist in Embryo | 7 |
After Childe Harold | 17 |
Copyright | |
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