Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. Deeper than everplummet sounded, I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, thepassion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake, somemightier cause, than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpetha({ proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and 25fro, trepidations of innumerable fugitives; I knew not whetherfrom the good cause or
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. Deeper than everplummet sounded, I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, thepassion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake, somemightier cause, than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpetha({ proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and 25fro, trepidations of innumerable fugitives; I knew not whetherfrom the good cause or the bad; darkness and lights; tempestand human faces; and at last, with the sense that all was lost,female forms, and the features that were worth all the world tome ; and but a moment allowed—and clasped hands, with heart- 3°breaking partings, and then—everlasting farewells ! and, with asigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous moth-er uttered the abhorred name of Death, the sound was reverber-ated—everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverber-ated—everlasting farewells ! 3S 2. And I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud, I will sleep nomore! XXV. GEORGE GORDON BYRON. CHARACTERIZATION BY TAINE.^ 1. Byron was a poet, but in his own fashion—a strange fashion,like that in which he lived. There were internal tempests withinhim, avalanches of ideas, which found issue only in writing. He From the History of English Literature, by H. A. Taine. TAINES CHARACTERIZATION OF BYRON. 377 dreams of himself and sees himself throughout. It is a boilingtorrent, but hedged in with rocks. 2. No such great poet has had so narrow an imagination; hecould not metamorphose himself into another. They are his ownsorrows, his own revolts, his own travels, which, hardly trans-formed and modified, he introduces into his verses. He doesnot invent, he observes; he does not create, he transcribes. Hiscopy is darkly exaggerated, but it is a copy. I could not writ
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