Selections from Byron: Childe Harold, Canto IV, The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, and Other PoemsGinn, 1911 - 185 pages |
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... thousand pounds . But Byron wrote for love of writing , not for money , though he needed the latter badly enough ; so with characteristic generosity he handed over the proceeds to his rather ungrateful relative , Dallas . The Giaour is ...
... thousand pounds . But Byron wrote for love of writing , not for money , though he needed the latter badly enough ; so with characteristic generosity he handed over the proceeds to his rather ungrateful relative , Dallas . The Giaour is ...
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... thousand pounds - went mostly to pay off mortgages and debts . With this final departure from England began the fifth and last period of the poet's life . Final de- Byron's exile opened a new and better era of his poetic activity . It ...
... thousand pounds - went mostly to pay off mortgages and debts . With this final departure from England began the fifth and last period of the poet's life . Final de- Byron's exile opened a new and better era of his poetic activity . It ...
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... thousand pounds of his personal loan and the magic of his presence . Daring and resourceful as he was , the situation that confronted him was enough to tax even his energy , sympathy , and clear judgment . But Byron had never shown ...
... thousand pounds of his personal loan and the magic of his presence . Daring and resourceful as he was , the situation that confronted him was enough to tax even his energy , sympathy , and clear judgment . But Byron had never shown ...
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... thousands counted every groan , And Europe made his woe her own . The spell that enchanted Europe has dissolved ; yet some- thing more substantial still remains to be considered . Byron , as we have seen , even now figures to the ...
... thousands counted every groan , And Europe made his woe her own . The spell that enchanted Europe has dissolved ; yet some- thing more substantial still remains to be considered . Byron , as we have seen , even now figures to the ...
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... thousand bright lamps shone O'er that high festival . A thousand cups of gold , In Judah deemed divine Jehovah's vessels hold The godless Heathen's wine ! II In that same hour and hall , The fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall ...
... thousand bright lamps shone O'er that high festival . A thousand cups of gold , In Judah deemed divine Jehovah's vessels hold The godless Heathen's wine ! II In that same hour and hall , The fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall ...
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