 Yet must I think less wildly :— I have thought Too long and darkly, till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, . A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame : And thus, untaught in youth my heart to tame, My springs of life were poison'd.  Cæsar Borgia, by the author of 'Whitefriars'. - Page 208by Emma Robinson - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Deborah Lutz - Fiction - 2006 - 130 pages
...expresses his autoerotic subjectivity: "I have thought /Too long and darkly, till my brain become, / In its own eddy boiling and o'er-wrought / A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame: / And thus, untaught in youth my heart to tame . . ." (3.7.1-5). The fascination of Byronism revolves... | |
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