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" I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent... "
The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education - Page 18
1877
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The Works of Lord Byron: Including the Suppressed Poems. Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...sort of farthing-candle light, which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky cauldron simmers. XLIV. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, Aud sounds as if it should be writ on satin, Wilb syllables which breathe of the sweet soulh, And genlle...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1829 - 478 pages
...borrow That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. 1 love the language, that soft bastard. Latin, Which...from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be wiit on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat...
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The Giaour. The corsair. Lara. The bride of Abydos. Siege of Corinth ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 442 pages
...borrow That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. '. love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, x^ Vnd sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, knd...
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Including His Suppressed Poems ..., Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...sort of farthing-candle light, which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky cauldron simmers. XLIV. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we 're obliged to hiss and spit, and sputter all. XLV. I like the women too (forgive my folly), From...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, The giaour, The siege of Corinth [and other poems].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...drunken man's dead eye in maudlin sorrow, But with all heaven t'- himself; that day will break as XLIV. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we 're obliged to hiss and spit, and sputter all. XLV. I like the women too (forgive my folly), prom...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 354 pages
...That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. XLIV. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all. XLII. . XLV. I like the women too (forgive my folly), From the rich peasant cheek of ruddy bronze,...
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Metropolitan Improvements, Or London in the 19th Century

1833 - 536 pages
...of Childe Harold does of their language, when he calls it " that «oft bastard Latin, Which mi'lts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllable« which breathe of the sweet south." So of their architecture I adapt another quotation from...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volumes 28-29

1859 - 980 pages
...kisses from a femal* moatli, And sounds as though it should be writ on satin 1859.1 « • . 248 [APRIL With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And...Which we're obliged to hiss and spit and sputter all." Another peculiarity of utterance which obtains mostly at the North, and is indeed an anglicism or rather,...
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The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His ..., Volume 11

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 pages
...That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. XLIV. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all. XLII. XLV. I like the women too (forgive my folly), From the rich peasant cheek of ruddy bronze, (!...
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The complete works of lord Byron, repr. from the last London ed ..., Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. XL1V. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...northern whistling grunting guttural, Which we're obliged tohiss, and spit, and sputter all. XLV. I like the women too (forgive my folly), From the rich peasant...
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