A Selection from the Works of Lord ByronEdward Moxon & Company, 1866 - 244 pages |
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Page xi
... sense of power and delight in great outer things of which we speak here . Among later men , Coleridge and Keats used nature mainly as a stimulant or a seda- tive ; Wordsworth as a vegetable fit to shred into his pot and pare down like ...
... sense of power and delight in great outer things of which we speak here . Among later men , Coleridge and Keats used nature mainly as a stimulant or a seda- tive ; Wordsworth as a vegetable fit to shred into his pot and pare down like ...
Page xi
... sense of power and delight in great outer things of which we speak here . Among later men , Coleridge and Keats used nature mainly as a stimulant or a seda- tive ; Wordsworth as a vegetable fit to shred into his pot and pare down like ...
... sense of power and delight in great outer things of which we speak here . Among later men , Coleridge and Keats used nature mainly as a stimulant or a seda- tive ; Wordsworth as a vegetable fit to shred into his pot and pare down like ...
Page xii
... some few degrees below an equal rank . One native and incurable defect grew up and strengthened side by side with his noblest qualities : a feeble and faulty sense of metre . No poet of equal or inferior xii PREFACE .
... some few degrees below an equal rank . One native and incurable defect grew up and strengthened side by side with his noblest qualities : a feeble and faulty sense of metre . No poet of equal or inferior xii PREFACE .
Page xiii
... sense of sounding storms and shaken waters could not but exult over the vision of deluge with all his strength and breadth of wing . Tempest and rebellion and the magnificence of anguish were as the natural food and fire to kindle and ...
... sense of sounding storms and shaken waters could not but exult over the vision of deluge with all his strength and breadth of wing . Tempest and rebellion and the magnificence of anguish were as the natural food and fire to kindle and ...
Page xv
... senses . His professions of contempt were too loud to express it ; scorn is brief or silent ; anger alone finds vent in violent iteration and clamorous appeal . He had too much of fury and not enough of contempt ; he foams at things and ...
... senses . His professions of contempt were too loud to express it ; scorn is brief or silent ; anger alone finds vent in violent iteration and clamorous appeal . He had too much of fury and not enough of contempt ; he foams at things and ...
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AHOLIBAMAH AMBRACIAN GULF Anah angels appear'd Asmodeus beauty behold beneath blood breast breath brow Byron chain CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE clay clime clouds damn'd dark dead death deep Don Juan dream dust earth EDWARD MOXON EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA eternal eyes face fair father feel flowers foam gazed GIAOUR glory gone grave grew Haidée hand hath heart heaven hell hope hour human clay immortal Japh knew less light live look look'd Michael Molière mortal mountains ne'er never night o'er ocean once pass'd passion Pedrillo perish'd poem poets praise round Saint Peter SAME.-CANTO Samian wine Satan seem'd shore sigh silent skies sleep son of Noah soul spirit STANZAS stars sweet tears thee thine things thou art thought turn'd Twas verse voice walls waters wave weep wind wings young