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Driven by this fever called living , by Carlyle's thirst for excitement , and yet spiritually stagnant or stationary , he appears to the imagination like Jonathan Edwards's spider , suspended over chaos and old night , turning “ this ...
Driven by this fever called living , by Carlyle's thirst for excitement , and yet spiritually stagnant or stationary , he appears to the imagination like Jonathan Edwards's spider , suspended over chaos and old night , turning “ this ...
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Byron , by living his inner life so openly , so straightforwardly , turned on himself a more insistent spotlight of literary curiosity than had any man since , perhaps , Montaigne . He was to enjoy its glory and to suffer for it .
Byron , by living his inner life so openly , so straightforwardly , turned on himself a more insistent spotlight of literary curiosity than had any man since , perhaps , Montaigne . He was to enjoy its glory and to suffer for it .
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Assuming for the moment that the censures of Byron's friends are conclusive proof of his profligacy , it has usually been a subject for astonishment that one living so profligately should write so much and so well .
Assuming for the moment that the censures of Byron's friends are conclusive proof of his profligacy , it has usually been a subject for astonishment that one living so profligately should write so much and so well .
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