The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works of Lord Byron: With a Comprehensive Outline of the Life of the Poet, Collected from the Latest and Most Reliable Sources
The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works of Lord Byron: With a Comprehensive Outline of the Life of the Poet, Collected from the Latest and Most Reliable Sources
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...you, young bard 1 whom luckless fate may lead To tremble on the nod of all who read, Ere your first score of cantos time unrolls, Beware--for God's sake, don't begin like Bowles If "Awake a louder and a loftier strain,"--And pray, what follows from his boiling brain?--He sinks to Southey's level in a trice, Whose epic ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...you, young bard 1 whom luckless fate may lead To tremble on the nod of all who read, Ere your first score of cantos time unrolls, Beware--for God's sake, don't begin like Bowles If "Awake a louder and a loftier strain,"--And pray, what follows from his boiling brain?--He sinks to Southey's level in a trice, Whose epic mountains never fail in mice! Not so of yore awoke your mighty sire The temper'd warblings of his master-lyre; Soft as the gentler breathing of the lute, "Of man's farst disobedience and the fruit" He speaks, but, as his subject swells along, Earth, heaven, and hades echo with the song. Still to the midst of things he hastens on, As if we witness'd all already done; Leaves on his path whatever seems too mean To raise the subject, or adorn the scene; Gives, as each page improves upon the sight, Hot smoke from brightness, but from darkness--light; And truth and fiction with such art compounds, We know not where to fix their several bounds. If you would please the public, deign to hear What soothes the many-headed monster's ear; If your heart triumph when the hands of all Applaud in thunder at the curtain's fall, Deserve those plaudits--study nature's page, And sketch the striking traits of every age; While varying man and varying years unfold Life's little tale, so oft, so vainly told: Observe his simple childhood's dawning days, His pranks, his prate, his playmates, and his plays; Till time at length the mannish tyro weans. And prurient vice outstrips his tardy teens i Behold him Freshman! forced no more to groan O'er Virgil's? devilish verses and his own; Prayers are too tedious, lectures too abstruse, He flies from Tavell's frown to " Fordham's Mews;" (Unlucky Tavell!J doom'd to daily cares By pugilistic pupils, ...
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