 Whose name appals the fiercest of his crew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hue ; Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar hearL What is that spell, that thus his lawless train Confess and...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 20by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...Scripture, writ by Grod's own hand : Scripture authentic ! uncorrupt by man. Cl)e 3§er0. — Byron. THAT Man of loneliness and mystery, Scarce seen to...each swarthy cheek with sallower hue ; Still sways then- Souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart. What is that... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1890 - 478 pages
...: — 1 ' With these he mingles not but to command ; Few are his words, but keen his eye and hand ; Whose name appals the fiercest of his crew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hue : 1 Ann. Reg., 1817, Chron., p. 73. Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...waste : Yet they repine not— so that Conrad guides ; And who dare question aught that he decides? the rest I ought to do — and did — my best, And...well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father liuart. What is that spell, that thus his lawless train Confess and envy, yet oppose in vain ? What... | |
 | Sir William Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 516 pages
...picturesque though theatrical character of the " Conrad " of Byron's freshest and least stagy Poem : " That man of loneliness and mystery : Scarce seen to smile : and seldom heard to sigh : Who sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills, the vulgar heart.... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards - France - 1893 - 248 pages
...corsair in your mind, I know, as I have. You know at just what page to open your Byron, and read, — " That man of loneliness and mystery, Scarce seen to...crew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hue." And so on. I always thought Medora must have had a wretched time with her blackavised adorer. But in... | |
 | Arthur Sinclair - Privateering - 1895 - 456 pages
...may, the silent man before you will never seek your sympathy for himself. " That man of loneliness end mystery, Scarce seen to smile, and seldom heard to...dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart. What should it be that thus their failh can bind? The power of Thought — the magic of the Mind? Linked... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...: Yet they repine not — so that Conrad guides, And who dare question aught that he deddesT Th.it man of loneliness and mystery, Scarce seen to smile, and seldom heard to sigh; Whose name appall the fiercest of his ciew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hoe ; Still sways their... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...waste : Yet they repine not — so that Conrad guides, And who dare question aught that he decides ? That man of loneliness and mystery, Scarce seen to...smile, and seldom heard to sigh; Whose name appals the fierceit of his crew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hue ; Still sways their souls with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 394 pages
...half-starved lion for his prey ; Lesser the risk, than rouse the slumbering fire Of wild Fanaticism." * Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart. — Byron's Corsair, 1814. * On the opinion that may be formed even of these two stanzas (xix. and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 760 pages
...half-starred lion for his prey ; Lesser the risk . than rouse the slumbering fire Of wild Fanaticism." * Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart. — Byron's Corsair, 1814. • On the opinion that may be formed even of these two stanzas (xix. and... | |
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