A Selection from the Works of Lord ByronEdward Moxon & Company, 1866 - 244 pages |
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Page xi
... passionate 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 ...
... passionate 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 ...
Page xi
... passionate 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 ...
... passionate 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 ...
Page xii
... passion is perfect , a fierce and blind desire which exalts and impels their verse into the high places of emotion and expression . They feed upon nature with a holy hunger , follow her with a divine lust as of gods chasing the ...
... passion is perfect , a fierce and blind desire which exalts and impels their verse into the high places of emotion and expression . They feed upon nature with a holy hunger , follow her with a divine lust as of gods chasing the ...
Page xiii
... sleepless spirit . The godless martyrdom of rebels ; the passion that cannot redeem ; the Thebaid whose first hermit was Cain , the Calvary whose first martyr was Satan ; these , time after time , allured PREFACE . xiii.
... sleepless spirit . The godless martyrdom of rebels ; the passion that cannot redeem ; the Thebaid whose first hermit was Cain , the Calvary whose first martyr was Satan ; these , time after time , allured PREFACE . xiii.
Page xiv
... passion of thought found outer clothing and expression in the ruin of a world . Both without and within , the subject was made for him , and lay ready shapen for the strong impressure of his hand . His love of wide and tem- pestuous ...
... passion of thought found outer clothing and expression in the ruin of a world . Both without and within , the subject was made for him , and lay ready shapen for the strong impressure of his hand . His love of wide and tem- pestuous ...
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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