British Poets of the Revolution Age: (Burns, Byron, Moore, Scott, Shelley ...
British Poets of the Revolution Age: (Burns, Byron, Moore, Scott, Shelley ...
William Robinson Clark
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And monarchs bowed the trembling limb, And thanked him for a throne ! . . . . Thanks for that lesson, it will teach to after-warriors more Than high philosophy can preach, and vainly preached before. Other enthusiasts of the Revolution cooled down when they saw the tyranny of the Reign of Terror in France ; but Byron remained as the very spirit of the storm. He was dissatisfied, and rightly, with much in the society, religion, and government of the world — with its hypocrisy and bigotry, with i...ts class distinctions and tyranny of gold. He strove, in his own way, to break down barriers that ages of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition had raised ; but he led a forlorn hope ; though he fought till the sword clave to his hand, and he died like a warrior in harness. LADIES AND WIFE. Whatever adulation was bestowed on Byron by his male contempoi:aries, the fascination he exerted o'er the female mind was something indescri6able. ** The dear * Childe Harold ' was beseiged by ladies ; they spoiled him, and they have no right to complain of him.*' Byron's face, said Scott, was the most artistic he had ever seen, it was something to dream of.
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