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" Unlike the heroes of each ancient race, Demons in act, but Gods at least in face, In Conrad's form seems little to admire, Though his dark eye-brow shades a glance of fire : Robust but not Herculean — to the sight No giant frame sets forth his common... "
The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale - Page 11
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 75 pages
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Disraeli and His Day

Sir William Fraser - 1891 - 516 pages
...the sun : The many still must labour for the one." The physical resemblance to Conrad was studied : " Sunburnt his cheek : his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil." It was only late in life that Disraeli abolished the peculiar curl on the centre of his forehead. "...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 124

1875 - 880 pages
...In Conrad's form seems little to admire, Though his dark eyebrow shades a glance of fire ; Yet, on the whole, who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men. At a dinner duly recorded, " Lord Holland said that Fox made it a rule never to talk in Johnson's presence,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...glance of fire: Robust but not Herculean — to the sight ND giant frame sets forth his common height; Each step from splendour to disgrace; Enough — no foreign foe could quell Thy soul, ti 200 They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess. '^Sunburnt...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...ofjfire: lobust hut not Herculean — to the sight ^o giant frame sets forth his common height; 5f et, crew nor blither. But some are dead, and some are gone, And some are scatter'd and al 200 They (*aze and marvel how — and still con" Tfess That Sunbn bus it is, but why they cannot guess....
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The Complete Poetical Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...of fire: Robust but not Herculean — to the sight No giant frame sets forth his common height; Tet, ut finally he thought fit to dismount, And said, ' I am as light as any feather, An ; 200 They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but tfrhy they cannot guess....
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 pages
...height ; Yet, in the whole, who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men; 200 en of Newstead. A prose inscription precedes the verses:...Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beau 354 CANTO i.] 355 And oft, perforce, his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce...
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Englisches Lesebuch, Volume 1

Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 pages
...of fire : Robust but not Herculean — to the sight No giant frame sets forth his common height; ao Yet, in the whole, who paused to look again, Saw more...guess. Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale 35 The sable curls in wild profusion veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought...
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The Haunted Castle: A Study of the Elements of English Romanticism

Eino Railo - 1927 - 434 pages
...does not seem to be much worthy of admiration, although " his dark eyebrow shades a glance of fire." Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil. • • . . • His features' deepening lines and varying hue At times attracted, yet perplex'd the...
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Byron en het Byronisme in de Nederlandsche letterkunde

Tjeerd Popma - 1928 - 444 pages
...beschrijving van Conrads uiterlijk; wij geven wederom eerst den Engelschen tekst, daarna den Neder landschen. Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profession veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...glance of fire: Robust but not Herculean — to the sight No giant frame sets forth his common height ; 4= bat why they cannot guess. Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable cnrls in wild...
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