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As our actual present world ... shows itself more clearly--our world of an aristocracy materialised and null, a middle-class purbl ...
What helps it now, that Byron bore,
With haughty scorn which mock'd the smart,
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I really am the meekest and mildest of men since Moses (though the public and mine "excellent wife" cannot find it out).
I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd
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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful a ...
The genius of Byron, which appeared at the beginning of this century, is like a funeral torch sculptured on our cradles.
Envy has blackened every page of his history.... The future, in its justice, will number him among those men whom passions and an ...
The more Byron is known, the better he will be loved.
It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, a ...
You speak of Lord Byron and me--there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees--I describe what I imagine. M ...
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