The shade of Byron: a mock heroic poem1871 |
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... wild career of fashionable folly - con- scious of a great crime - his gloominess caused by remorse and despair- cravings for unnatural vice - a desperate , despairing , unrepenting soul , whom suffering maddens , but cannot reclaim ! To ...
... wild career of fashionable folly - con- scious of a great crime - his gloominess caused by remorse and despair- cravings for unnatural vice - a desperate , despairing , unrepenting soul , whom suffering maddens , but cannot reclaim ! To ...
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... do not prefer " rope or gun , " poison or pistol . Fulwar Craven thought the latter was the most appropriate mode for the adverse end of a horse - race . To interrupt , and shout with wild delight , When THE SHADE OF BYRON . 5.
... do not prefer " rope or gun , " poison or pistol . Fulwar Craven thought the latter was the most appropriate mode for the adverse end of a horse - race . To interrupt , and shout with wild delight , When THE SHADE OF BYRON . 5.
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To interrupt , and shout with wild delight , When from her nest the fugitive escapes , With plaintive , twittering cry , as if to beg For mercy from the merciless young brats , In whom the spirit of despoil is e'en So early ripe . Ah ...
To interrupt , and shout with wild delight , When from her nest the fugitive escapes , With plaintive , twittering cry , as if to beg For mercy from the merciless young brats , In whom the spirit of despoil is e'en So early ripe . Ah ...
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... wild fancies as thou followest ; Whose kicks and plunges are as whimsical As young kids ' capers , or capricious airs Of maids inebriate with beauty's praise . If thou digress , I will digress with thee ; If thou return , I'll turn and ...
... wild fancies as thou followest ; Whose kicks and plunges are as whimsical As young kids ' capers , or capricious airs Of maids inebriate with beauty's praise . If thou digress , I will digress with thee ; If thou return , I'll turn and ...
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... wild passion O'erleap'd the limits of cold - hearted fashion . XXV . Alas ! that th ' unwilling Muse should be Constrain❜d to tell the secrets of this night ! Not Juan's eye alone the ghost did see ; Not Fitz - Fulke's form alone did ...
... wild passion O'erleap'd the limits of cold - hearted fashion . XXV . Alas ! that th ' unwilling Muse should be Constrain❜d to tell the secrets of this night ! Not Juan's eye alone the ghost did see ; Not Fitz - Fulke's form alone did ...
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ages appear beautiful bright bring Byron canto cause chap course dark dear death deep divine Don Juan doth doubt e'en earth eternal ev'ry eyes face fair fancy fear feel fire follow give gold Grace hand hath head heart heav'n holy hour human Italy keep kind knew Lady late laws leave less light living look Lord matter means meet mind mortal Muse nature ne'er never night o'er once pass persons poor present priests pure reader reason rest rich ring round seem'd seems sense shade sometimes soon soul spirit stanza stars strange sure sweet tell thee things thou thought true truth turn Twas wide wild wonderful young
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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...