 | Dominik Pietzcker - 1874-1942 - 1997 - 322 pages
...Verachtung der Menge ist letzlich eine Frucht der gesellschaftlichen Außenseiterrolle, die seit Byron ("He stood a stranger in this breathing world, / An erring spirit from another hurl' d")39 als die dem Künstler einzig angemessene betrachtet und von ihm angenommen wurde. Die Verdrängung... | |
 | Thorslev - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 240 pages
...followed Du Bos's lead: 8 There was in him a vital scorn of all [events] : As if the worst had fallen which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing...shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret: With more capacity... | |
 | J. M. Coetzee - Fiction - 2000 - 228 pages
...'Lara'. His notes deal with 'Lara'. There is no way in which he can evade the poem. He reads aloud: He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring...shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped. 'Who will gloss these lines for me? Who is this "erring spirit"? Why does he call himself "a thing"?... | |
 | Robert Johanson - American drama (Comedy) - 2000 - 68 pages
...Heathcliff! Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? WOMAN TWO (Emily). He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurl'd... What had he been? What was he, thus unknown, Who walked their world, his lineage all unknown?... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...the circumstances of the case. The reader is asked not to excuse but to seek understanding. There was in him a vital scorn of all; As if the worst had fall'n...this breathing world. An erring spirit from another hu1l'd; A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped; But 'scaped... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...supernatural horrors which he banishes. Lara in youth had been an idealist and a student, but when grown-up He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring Spirit from another hurl'd. (i, 18) 'Breathing world' is from Richard III (i, i, 21; see p. 154 above). He 'confounded... | |
 | Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter - Critical theory - 2004 - 308 pages
...XVII In him inexplicably mix'd appeared Much to be loved and hated, sought and feared; XVIII There was in him a vital scorn of all: As if the worst had fall'n...breathing world. An erring spirit from another hurled; (Byron l980: IL 224-225) He in fact already uses the same model in Childe Harolds Pilgrimage ofl8I2:... | |
 | Deborah Lutz - Fiction - 2006 - 130 pages
...means death. Lara returns to his homeland after many years of travel in a state of afterlife: There was in him a vital scorn of all: As if the worst had fall'n...shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret. (1.17.1-8)... | |
 | Jane Austen - Literary Collections - 2006 - 56 pages
...'impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony' are exemplified in Lara, where the hero is described as 'a stranger in this breathing world, / An erring spirit...from another hurled; / A thing of dark imaginings' (Canto 1, section xviii). Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810) are long narrative ballads... | |
 | David Colbert - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 180 pages
...Opinion varying o'er his hidden lot ... There was in him a vital scorn of all: As if the worst hadfall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurled; 66 beneath, The men with whom he felt condemned to breathe, And longed by good or ill to separate Himself... | |
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There was in him a vital scorn of all ; As if the worst had fall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world. An erring spirit from another hurled... 
