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Page 441
... Byron just misses . Like the tiger of his own comparison he springs , but is baffled and goes growling back to his ... Byron's octosyllabics or the anapaests of The Destruction of Sennacherib ; and no poet reproduced the same impression ...
... Byron just misses . Like the tiger of his own comparison he springs , but is baffled and goes growling back to his ... Byron's octosyllabics or the anapaests of The Destruction of Sennacherib ; and no poet reproduced the same impression ...
Page 447
... Byron's soul , like Swift's , was filled with a saeva indignatio when he con- templated the wars and persecutions with which Europe reeked , and reeks , like the arena into which St. Telemachus descended . Cain is the most shattering ...
... Byron's soul , like Swift's , was filled with a saeva indignatio when he con- templated the wars and persecutions with which Europe reeked , and reeks , like the arena into which St. Telemachus descended . Cain is the most shattering ...
Page 460
... Byron's vivid and sensitive reflection of his troubled age . And the proof may be felt by a little reflection on the work of those who arraigned Byron , the poetry of Swinburne , and Rossetti and their school . If the poetic spirit in ...
... Byron's vivid and sensitive reflection of his troubled age . And the proof may be felt by a little reflection on the work of those who arraigned Byron , the poetry of Swinburne , and Rossetti and their school . If the poetic spirit in ...
Contents
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191819 | 19 |
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY 1920 THE BRITISH SOLDIER | 29 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191920 | 31 |
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