Byron: Lyric and romanceBritish Council, 1970 |
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... seen as incompatible with the spirit of its setting ( The Giaour , lines 46-67 ) . These ' Edens of the eastern wave ' have been dese- crated by human guilt , and the gates to their enjoyment are closed , ' With dreadful faces thronged ...
... seen as incompatible with the spirit of its setting ( The Giaour , lines 46-67 ) . These ' Edens of the eastern wave ' have been dese- crated by human guilt , and the gates to their enjoyment are closed , ' With dreadful faces thronged ...
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... seen and experienced . No wonder that Walter Scott's verse romances , located most of them in an idealized Middle Ages , and lacking the note of passion , declined in popularity . This note of immediacy is struck in the first of the ...
... seen and experienced . No wonder that Walter Scott's verse romances , located most of them in an idealized Middle Ages , and lacking the note of passion , declined in popularity . This note of immediacy is struck in the first of the ...
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... seen in Hassan's hall ; The lonely Spider's thin gray pall Waves slowly widening o'er the wall ; The Bat builds in his Haram bower And in the fortress of his power The Owl usurps the beacon - tower . ... A turban carved in coarsest ...
... seen in Hassan's hall ; The lonely Spider's thin gray pall Waves slowly widening o'er the wall ; The Bat builds in his Haram bower And in the fortress of his power The Owl usurps the beacon - tower . ... A turban carved in coarsest ...
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