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Page 431
... Byron , made the claim for Wordsworth and Byron which awakened in Swinburne a fury of eloquent anger , and served for the time to depreciate rather than to enhance the reputation of the younger but far more widely celebrated poet ...
... Byron , made the claim for Wordsworth and Byron which awakened in Swinburne a fury of eloquent anger , and served for the time to depreciate rather than to enhance the reputation of the younger but far more widely celebrated poet ...
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 448
... Byron might well have become , like Milton , one of Blake's mythical figures , Orc or Los , nailed to the rock of the ten commandments , the principles of moral individuality ' , the double consciousness of sin in himself and injustice ...
... Byron might well have become , like Milton , one of Blake's mythical figures , Orc or Los , nailed to the rock of the ten commandments , the principles of moral individuality ' , the double consciousness of sin in himself and injustice ...
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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191819 | 19 |
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY 1920 THE BRITISH SOLDIER | 29 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191920 | 31 |
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