Selections from Byron: Childe Harold, Canto IV, The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, and Other PoemsGinn, 1911 - 185 pages |
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... human skull made into a drinking cup ; got up in the dead of night to practice pistol shooting ; and indulged in many other freaks of the same kind . Love of ani- ― Byron loved animals , and surrounded himself now as always with a whole ...
... human skull made into a drinking cup ; got up in the dead of night to practice pistol shooting ; and indulged in many other freaks of the same kind . Love of ani- ― Byron loved animals , and surrounded himself now as always with a whole ...
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... into something highly imaginative and ideal . Acute criticism of life , exten- sive knowledge of human nature , the most abounding and inexhaustible energy , all this abides in Byron's masterpiece , xl SELECTIONS FROM BYRON.
... into something highly imaginative and ideal . Acute criticism of life , exten- sive knowledge of human nature , the most abounding and inexhaustible energy , all this abides in Byron's masterpiece , xl SELECTIONS FROM BYRON.
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... the sound knowledge of life , the wide scholarship , the profound insight into the human soul , that render Browning so potent a force in poetry . What , then , remains ? - - The answer is easily found . Any one INTRODUCTION xli.
... the sound knowledge of life , the wide scholarship , the profound insight into the human soul , that render Browning so potent a force in poetry . What , then , remains ? - - The answer is easily found . Any one INTRODUCTION xli.
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... human soul take wing In any shape , in any mood : I've seen it rushing forth in blood , I've seen it on the breaking ocean 180 Strive with a swoln convulsive motion , I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread ...
... human soul take wing In any shape , in any mood : I've seen it rushing forth in blood , I've seen it on the breaking ocean 180 Strive with a swoln convulsive motion , I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread ...
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... human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me : No child- no sire -no kin had I , No partner in my misery ; I thought of this , and I was glad , For thought of them had made me mad ; But I was curious to ...
... human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me : No child- no sire -no kin had I , No partner in my misery ; I thought of this , and I was glad , For thought of them had made me mad ; But I was curious to ...
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SELECTIONS FROM BYRON George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, 1788,Samuel Marion 1876 Tucker No preview available - 2016 |
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