A Review of the Character and Writings of Lord ByronSherwood Gilbert and Piper, 1826 - 158 pages |
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... Cain and Don Juan , we must not forget his extraordinary powers . At that period , " all that gives gloss to sin had passed away , " " And rooted stood in manhood's hour , The weeds of vice without the flower . " The moral change ...
... Cain and Don Juan , we must not forget his extraordinary powers . At that period , " all that gives gloss to sin had passed away , " " And rooted stood in manhood's hour , The weeds of vice without the flower . " The moral change ...
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... Cain the curse and crime , In characters unworn by time . He died too in the battle broil . I search'd , but vainly search'd , to find The workings of a wounded mind ; Each feature of that sullen corse Betray'd his rage , but no remorse ...
... Cain the curse and crime , In characters unworn by time . He died too in the battle broil . I search'd , but vainly search'd , to find The workings of a wounded mind ; Each feature of that sullen corse Betray'd his rage , but no remorse ...
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... Cain , the poetry of hell . His mind , strongly acted upon by a few objects , reacted strongly upon them . But the sphere within which his intellect exerted itself was narrow . Scarcely any writer has so much of what is essentially ...
... Cain , the poetry of hell . His mind , strongly acted upon by a few objects , reacted strongly upon them . But the sphere within which his intellect exerted itself was narrow . Scarcely any writer has so much of what is essentially ...
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... Cain ; and , previously even to that work , he had abandoned himself in his Don Juan , to a course of writing , which left nothing to be hoped .ム! Of these works we shall say but little . The world , as has been already remarked , had ...
... Cain ; and , previously even to that work , he had abandoned himself in his Don Juan , to a course of writing , which left nothing to be hoped .ム! Of these works we shall say but little . The world , as has been already remarked , had ...
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... his Don Juan and his Cain , and some of the other works of his later years . His thorough admirers have praised even these . But unless an age of deeper darkness and evil , than has yet been known , is 150 CHARACTER AND WRITINGS.
... his Don Juan and his Cain , and some of the other works of his later years . His thorough admirers have praised even these . But unless an age of deeper darkness and evil , than has yet been known , is 150 CHARACTER AND WRITINGS.
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