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. 1876 Excerpt: ...CANTO n. jfame. YAIN Hope! to deem this bitter breath we draw Abundant offering to thankless Time--Or think her minions reverence, the more, Sweet harps which swell with strains of idle rhyme Earth's empty plaint--that from the Soul's fair clime Deaf ears drink such sad sounds!--Serenely won The Spirit's shining shore, ...
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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. 1876 Excerpt: ...CANTO n. jfame. YAIN Hope! to deem this bitter breath we draw Abundant offering to thankless Time--Or think her minions reverence, the more, Sweet harps which swell with strains of idle rhyme Earth's empty plaint--that from the Soul's fair clime Deaf ears drink such sad sounds!--Serenely won The Spirit's shining shore, methinks the chime Of yon soft-choiring Spheres should suffer none Save Seraphs' songs to swell, supreme, beyond the Sun! O Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it." Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice: " Act V; Scene I. (') M. S. "Save seraphs'songs to swell sweet psalms beyond the Sun."--E. CANTO II. Y3 who peruse the Poet's pensive page Full little ken those pangs that pour'd it forth, Else should sad sympathies your Souls engage--True tears attest glad Gratitude's blest birth: (') With our hearts' blood we write! Ah! little worth His fyttes (2) that from fair founts of Joyaunce flow;--The Prophet plods in pain the paths of Earth, Where Sorrow soothes the Eloquence of Woe, (3) For Pleasaunce featly (4) flies it is pursued the moe! (5) (') "Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought." Emerson's " Problem." C) Strains. (3) "No words suffice the secret soul to show, For Truth denies all eloquence to Woe." Byron's " Corsair: " Canto III. (4) Nimbly. (5) More. CANTO II. WITH our hearts' blood we write! () Could ye who trace, How heedlessly, stern strivings of the Soul Which would repose her from Fame's weary race--Turn her tired steps toward Good's still grateful goal, --Could ye view this--could ye divine the whole--Yea! track the Spirit to her secret cell, Ye would ne (2) wonder...
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Add this copy of Lord Byron Vindicated; Or Rome and Her Pilgrim to cart. $232.28, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1876 by Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
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None. Very Good. An interesting very scarce work, being a long poem covering the topics of Rome, Fame, Love, Byron and more. The first edition of this work penned under the pseudonym 'Manfred'. An interesting poetical work, with quotations from several other poets and prose authors within. These quotations are attributed to the start of the volume. This work appears to be a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's work 'Lady Byron Vindicated' in which she defends Lady Byron for leaving her husband. It stirred a posthumous controversy between the supporters of Lord Byron and those of his wife as Stowe's publication was the first time anyone had publicly hinted at an incestuous relationship between Byron and his half-sister. Ex-library, from the library of 'City of Wesminster'. With their bookplate to the front pastedown and stamp to the title page and contents page. Written by Elliott W Preston, under the pseudonym of 'Manfred'. Manfred was a closet drama written by Lord Byron which contained supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. A very scarce work, with only three entries on Copac, two of which being Legal Deposit libraries. In a quarter morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, generally smart with patches of rubbing to the extremities. Library bookplate to the front pastedown, Westminster Public Library. Repair to the title page and page vi at the gutter. Library stamp to the contents pages. Shelf number written to the verso of title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with just the occasional scattered spots. Very Good.
