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... Lord Byron ( judging from the tone of his writings ) might be thought to have suffered too much to be a truly great poet . If Mr. Moore lays himself too open to all the various impulses of things , the outward shews of earth and sky ...
... Lord Byron ( judging from the tone of his writings ) might be thought to have suffered too much to be a truly great poet . If Mr. Moore lays himself too open to all the various impulses of things , the outward shews of earth and sky ...
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... Lord Byron's poetry is as morbid as Mr. Moore's is careless and dissipated . He has more depth of passion , more force and impetuosity , but the pas- sion is always of the same unaccountable character , at once violent and sullen ...
... Lord Byron's poetry is as morbid as Mr. Moore's is careless and dissipated . He has more depth of passion , more force and impetuosity , but the pas- sion is always of the same unaccountable character , at once violent and sullen ...
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... Lord Byron's writings . Yet he has beauty with his strength , tenderness sometimes joined with the phrenzy of despair . A flash of golden light some- times follows from a stroke of his pencil , like a falling meteor . The flowers that ...
... Lord Byron's writings . Yet he has beauty with his strength , tenderness sometimes joined with the phrenzy of despair . A flash of golden light some- times follows from a stroke of his pencil , like a falling meteor . The flowers that ...
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... Lord- ship's Muse , to play what stop she pleases on . Why should Lord Byron now laud him to the skies in the hour of his success , and then peevishly wreak his disappointment on the God of his idolatry ? The man he writes of does not ...
... Lord- ship's Muse , to play what stop she pleases on . Why should Lord Byron now laud him to the skies in the hour of his success , and then peevishly wreak his disappointment on the God of his idolatry ? The man he writes of does not ...
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... Lord Byron in intense passion , to Moore in delightful fancy , to Mr. Wordsworth in profound sentiment : but he has more picturesque power than any of them ; that is , he places the objects themselves , about which they might feel and ...
... Lord Byron in intense passion , to Moore in delightful fancy , to Mr. Wordsworth in profound sentiment : but he has more picturesque power than any of them ; that is , he places the objects themselves , about which they might feel and ...
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