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... felt , and he was right in feeling , that Byron was a greater poetical power than himself . As a man , Shelley is at a number of points immeasurably Byron's superior ; he is a beautiful and enchanting spirit , whose vision , when we ...
... felt , and he was right in feeling , that Byron was a greater poetical power than himself . As a man , Shelley is at a number of points immeasurably Byron's superior ; he is a beautiful and enchanting spirit , whose vision , when we ...
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... felt it , and of making us see and feel it too . The Giaour is , as he truly called it , " a string of passages , " not a work moving by a deep internal law of development to a necessary end ; and our total impression from it cannot but ...
... felt it , and of making us see and feel it too . The Giaour is , as he truly called it , " a string of passages , " not a work moving by a deep internal law of development to a necessary end ; and our total impression from it cannot but ...
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... felt the expiring wave of that mighty influence , but who certainly also regard him , and have long regarded him , without illusion , cannot but ask my- self , cannot but seek to answer . The present volume is an attempt to provide ...
... felt the expiring wave of that mighty influence , but who certainly also regard him , and have long regarded him , without illusion , cannot but ask my- self , cannot but seek to answer . The present volume is an attempt to provide ...
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... things , roused Byron to irreconcilable revolt and battle . They made him indignant , they infuriated him ; they were so strong , so defiant , so maleficent , —and yet he felt that they were doomed . " You have PREFACE . XXV.
... things , roused Byron to irreconcilable revolt and battle . They made him indignant , they infuriated him ; they were so strong , so defiant , so maleficent , —and yet he felt that they were doomed . " You have PREFACE . XXV.
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George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Matthew Arnold. he felt that they were doomed . " You have seen every trampler down in turn , " he comforts himself with saying , " from Buonaparte to the simplest individuals . " The old order , as after ...
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Matthew Arnold. he felt that they were doomed . " You have seen every trampler down in turn , " he comforts himself with saying , " from Buonaparte to the simplest individuals . " The old order , as after ...
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Adah Arqua art thou Astarte bear beautiful behold beneath blood blue breast breath BRIDE OF ABYDOS brow Byron Cain Canto CHAMOIS cheek CHILDE HAROLD clouds cold dare dark dead death deep DON JUAN dost dread dust dwell earth eyes F. T. PALGRAVE Farewell fear feel foam gaze gentle Giaour glory Goethe grave hand hath heard heart heaven heaving Hellespont hour immortal isle land light limbs live lone look look'd Lucifer MANFRED MATTHEW ARNOLD mortal mountains ne'er never night o'er PARISINA pass'd poet poetic poetry roll'd rose round Samian wine scarce seem'd shore SIEGE OF CORINTH sigh slave smile soul spirit Stanzas star steed stood sweet tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought throne tomb turn'd twas voice waters wave weep wild wind Wordsworth youth
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Page 65 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 50 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 44 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.
Page 111 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony ; And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 94 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That 1 with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Page 84 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Page 112 - He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday — All this rush'd with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged? Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 253 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Page 125 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod ; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Page 92 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he...