Lord Byron: A Biography with a Critical Essay on His Place in LiteratureJ. Murray, 1872 - 516 страници |
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... hand and a lady's maid on the other . But these and other like tones , the comparatively finer touches of slander , were but the preludes to the deeper notes which we were ere long doomed to hear . In September 1869 , Mrs. Beecher Stowe ...
... hand and a lady's maid on the other . But these and other like tones , the comparatively finer touches of slander , were but the preludes to the deeper notes which we were ere long doomed to hear . In September 1869 , Mrs. Beecher Stowe ...
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... hand , by no Englishman of his generation were the vast capacities of Goethe more instinctively felt and discerned than by Byron . Ignorant though he was of the German language , and dependent on the good offices of Shelley or M. G. ...
... hand , by no Englishman of his generation were the vast capacities of Goethe more instinctively felt and discerned than by Byron . Ignorant though he was of the German language , and dependent on the good offices of Shelley or M. G. ...
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... hand , have been added by the translator others which seem to throw light on the text . In the Appendix will be found information on some points of interest regarding Lord Byron , which the translator has collected , but which exceed ...
... hand , have been added by the translator others which seem to throw light on the text . In the Appendix will be found information on some points of interest regarding Lord Byron , which the translator has collected , but which exceed ...
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... hand and had so tamned that they crawled over him . If they misbehaved he beat them with a wisp of straw ; and at his death they are said to have left the house in a body . The brother of this , the fifth Lord Byron , was the celebrated ...
... hand and had so tamned that they crawled over him . If they misbehaved he beat them with a wisp of straw ; and at his death they are said to have left the house in a body . The brother of this , the fifth Lord Byron , was the celebrated ...
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... hand those books , by which his mind and imagination , even in childhood , were directed to the Levant . Regarded in this light , it appears as the very natural course of his development that he 1 Moore's Life , i . 21 . 2 Ibid . p . 18 ...
... hand those books , by which his mind and imagination , even in childhood , were directed to the Levant . Regarded in this light , it appears as the very natural course of his development that he 1 Moore's Life , i . 21 . 2 Ibid . p . 18 ...
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Страница 392 - I say that Maddalo is proud, because I can find no other word to express the concentred and impatient feelings which consume him; but it is on his own hopes and affections only that he seems to trample, for in social life no human being can be more gentle, patient and unassuming than Maddalo. He is cheerful, frank and witty. His more serious conversation is a sort of intoxication; men are held by it as by a spell.
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