| Mary Shelley - Fiction - 1997 - 566 pages
...scorning to redeem One doubt from others' half withheld esteem; In self-inflicted penance of a breast Which tenderness might once have wrung from rest;...There was in him a vital scorn of all: As if the worst has fall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another... | |
| David Colbert - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 180 pages
...mix'd appeared Much to be loved and hated, sought and feared; Opinion varying o'er his hidden lot ... There was in him a vital scorn of all: As if the worst hadfall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another... | |
| Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...scorning to redeem One doubt from others' half-withheld esteem; In self-inflicted penance of a breast Which tenderness might once have wrung from rest;...compel The soul to hate for having loved too well. He stood, a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurl'd. . . . ("Lara,"... | |
| 232 pages
...scorning to redeem One doubt from others' half-withheld esteem; 14o In self-inflicted penance of a breast Which tenderness might once have wrung from rest;...grief that would compel The soul to hate for having lov'd too well. There was in him a vital scorn of all: 145 As if the worst had fall'n which could befall,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 606 pages
...from Rest ; In vigilance of Grief that would compel 311 The soul to hate for having loved too well.1 XVIII. There was in him a vital scorn of all : "• As if the worst had fallen which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring Spirit from another... | |
| Portuguese literature - 1923 - 622 pages
...no such hurricane life, nor are their later adventures and ultimate fates comparable save in Lara's vital scorn of all As if the worst had fall'n which could befall 3. and Byron's final reflection : Nor is his mortal slumber less profound Though priest nor bless'd... | |
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