Selections from Byron: Childe Harold, Canto IV, The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, and Other PoemsGinn, 1911 - 185 pages |
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... youth , personal beauty , rank , and genius now lifted him to the pinnacle of social favor . He posed as a mere liter- ary dilettante , a lord who amused himself by occasional ventures into literature , and aimed to discriminate sharply ...
... youth , personal beauty , rank , and genius now lifted him to the pinnacle of social favor . He posed as a mere liter- ary dilettante , a lord who amused himself by occasional ventures into literature , and aimed to discriminate sharply ...
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... youth , He heard the King's command , He saw that writing's truth . The lamps around were bright , The prophecy in view ; He read it on that night , The morrow proved it true . VI " Belshazzar's grave is made , His kingdom passed away ...
... youth , He heard the King's command , He saw that writing's truth . The lamps around were bright , The prophecy in view ; He read it on that night , The morrow proved it true . VI " Belshazzar's grave is made , His kingdom passed away ...
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... Youth's smooth cheek the blush alone , which fades so fast , But the tender bloom of heart is gone , ere Youth itself be past . 1 Ashur : the highest god of the Assyrians ; but the word here stands for the country of Assyria itself . II ...
... Youth's smooth cheek the blush alone , which fades so fast , But the tender bloom of heart is gone , ere Youth itself be past . 1 Ashur : the highest god of the Assyrians ; but the word here stands for the country of Assyria itself . II ...
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... youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And Constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love , Doth work like madness in the brain . But never either found another To ...
... youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And Constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love , Doth work like madness in the brain . But never either found another To ...
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... youth and one in age , Finished as they had begun , Proud of Persecution's rage ; One in fire , and two in field , Their belief with blood have sealed , Dying as their father died , For the God their foes denied ; - IO 20 Three were in ...
... youth and one in age , Finished as they had begun , Proud of Persecution's rage ; One in fire , and two in field , Their belief with blood have sealed , Dying as their father died , For the God their foes denied ; - IO 20 Three were in ...
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