Byron and His FictionsWayne State University Press, 1978 - 296 pages |
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Page 24
... Augusta in a cancelled verse of " Childe Harold's Good Night " : My mother is a high - born dame , And much misliketh me ; She saith my riot bringeth shame On all my ancestry . I had a sister once I ween , Whose tears perhaps will flow ...
... Augusta in a cancelled verse of " Childe Harold's Good Night " : My mother is a high - born dame , And much misliketh me ; She saith my riot bringeth shame On all my ancestry . I had a sister once I ween , Whose tears perhaps will flow ...
Page 87
... Augusta . All Byron's conflicts of dependence and autonomy inevitably converged on Annabella , and the compulsion to re - enact the model of his par- ents ' marriage inflamed the situation still further . The drama pro- ceeded to its ...
... Augusta . All Byron's conflicts of dependence and autonomy inevitably converged on Annabella , and the compulsion to re - enact the model of his par- ents ' marriage inflamed the situation still further . The drama pro- ceeded to its ...
Page 270
... Augusta seems to grow out of the recollections of " happy childhood " in stanza 7 ; the invocation of " our own " lake in stanza 8 thus seems to refer to a time spent with Augusta at Newstead before Byron's " mind was sacrificed to ...
... Augusta seems to grow out of the recollections of " happy childhood " in stanza 7 ; the invocation of " our own " lake in stanza 8 thus seems to refer to a time spent with Augusta at Newstead before Byron's " mind was sacrificed to ...
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