The shade of Byron: a mock heroic poem1871 |
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... — instead of lauding — with the most ridiculous hyper- bole , deifying the poor lady , even while on earth , in her fits of idiosyncracy ! * * See Mr. W. Howitt's letter . The Egyptian Isis , the Syrian Astarte , and the vi PREFACE .
... — instead of lauding — with the most ridiculous hyper- bole , deifying the poor lady , even while on earth , in her fits of idiosyncracy ! * * See Mr. W. Howitt's letter . The Egyptian Isis , the Syrian Astarte , and the vi PREFACE .
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... poor Lady Byron's transactions were in unison with them during her fits of illusion . It cannot escape observation that Mrs. Beecher Stowe does the very same thing she blames in others . She accuses the enamoured Guiecioli of ...
... poor Lady Byron's transactions were in unison with them during her fits of illusion . It cannot escape observation that Mrs. Beecher Stowe does the very same thing she blames in others . She accuses the enamoured Guiecioli of ...
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... poor Lady's cold fits , as described by Mr. Howitt , to whose letter the reader is referred . During this interview , which occupied one afternoon , from about two o'clock , Mrs. Stowe represents the sick Lady as being equal to a most ...
... poor Lady's cold fits , as described by Mr. Howitt , to whose letter the reader is referred . During this interview , which occupied one afternoon , from about two o'clock , Mrs. Stowe represents the sick Lady as being equal to a most ...
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... Poor Lady Byron - whom we would gladly absolve entirely if possible — was not the faultless piece of angelic mortality that Mrs. B. Stowe's devotion would have her American friends believe . The errors of Lady Byron's conduct are ...
... Poor Lady Byron - whom we would gladly absolve entirely if possible — was not the faultless piece of angelic mortality that Mrs. B. Stowe's devotion would have her American friends believe . The errors of Lady Byron's conduct are ...
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... poor man , and refusal to assign any cause ? Where was there any real generosity , charity , or mercy shown to the unhappy , betrayed Medora Leigh , whose melan- choly fate was finally completed by the hypocrisy of Mrs. Stowe's ...
... poor man , and refusal to assign any cause ? Where was there any real generosity , charity , or mercy shown to the unhappy , betrayed Medora Leigh , whose melan- choly fate was finally completed by the hypocrisy of Mrs. Stowe's ...
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Page 274 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increase ; who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?
Page 370 - Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate ; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may be won.
Page 264 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 264 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows...
Page 63 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 20 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 297 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 156 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 64 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Page 273 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...