Lord Byron: A Biography with a Critical Essay on His Place in LiteratureJ. Murray, 1872 - 516 страници |
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Karl Elze. called Lives of Lord Byron . Their abundance testifies , at least , to the interest with which everything relating to him and promising to add to our information was greedily received . A host of small men that hung round the ...
Karl Elze. called Lives of Lord Byron . Their abundance testifies , at least , to the interest with which everything relating to him and promising to add to our information was greedily received . A host of small men that hung round the ...
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... least diminishes as he grows up ; for Zeluco ends as a consummate scoundrel . He The exceeding freedom and absence of control , which were allowed to the boy , acted most beneficially on his bodily development . As in Scott's case , so ...
... least diminishes as he grows up ; for Zeluco ends as a consummate scoundrel . He The exceeding freedom and absence of control , which were allowed to the boy , acted most beneficially on his bodily development . As in Scott's case , so ...
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... least notion that I should subside into poetry.'4 It was the talent of an orator which was ascribed to him . Dr. Drury saw in him the future distinguished parliamentary speaker . This ex- 1 Moore's Life , i . 87 . 5 2 Medwin's ...
... least notion that I should subside into poetry.'4 It was the talent of an orator which was ascribed to him . Dr. Drury saw in him the future distinguished parliamentary speaker . This ex- 1 Moore's Life , i . 87 . 5 2 Medwin's ...
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... least his equal ; as a schoolboy out of school I was always in scrapes , and he never ; and in school he always knew his lesson , and I rarely . But when I knew it , I knew it nearly as well . In general informa- tion , history , & c ...
... least his equal ; as a schoolboy out of school I was always in scrapes , and he never ; and in school he always knew his lesson , and I rarely . But when I knew it , I knew it nearly as well . In general informa- tion , history , & c ...
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... least , either licentious or vicious , godless or wicked . Rather he was eccentric , but not morally worse than the majority of those young men . who , during their student life , according to the English proverb , sow their wild oats ...
... least , either licentious or vicious , godless or wicked . Rather he was eccentric , but not morally worse than the majority of those young men . who , during their student life , according to the English proverb , sow their wild oats ...
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