The power of Byron's personality lies in " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength. Views and reviews - Página 72por William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 páginas
...carefuller workmen • and must be forgiven if after such training they cannot at once appreciate the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects: the excellence of sincerity and "strength. Without these no poet can live; but few have ever had so much of them as Byron. His sincerity indeed... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 páginas
...carefuller workmen ; and must be forgiven if after such training they cannot at once appreciate the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength. Without these no poet can live ; but few have ever had so much of them as Byron. His sincerity indeed... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1876 - 408 páginas
...carefuller workmen ; and must be forgiven if after such training they cannot at once appreciate the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength. Without these no poet can live; but few have ever had so much of them as Byron. His sincerity indeed... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 páginas
...Mr. Swinburne has seized upon it and named it for us. The power of Byron's personality lies in " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength." Byron found our nation, after its long and victorious struggle with revolutionary France, fixed in... | |
| 1881 - 520 páginas
...stepping-stones of other critics. " The power of Byron's personality lies," writes Mr. Arnold, "in 'the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects ; the excellence of sincerity and strength.' " It may be said, in passing, that Mr. Swinburne does not say that in these qualities lies the power... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 páginas
...Mr. Swinburne has seized upon it and named it for us. The power of Byron's personality lies in " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength." Byron found our nation, after its long and victorious struggle with revolutionary France, fixed in... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 326 páginas
...deserve) the noble praise of him which I have already quoted from Mr. Swinburne ; the praise for " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...all his defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength.'1'' True, as a man, Byron could not manage himself, could not guide his ways aright, but... | |
| 1881 - 518 páginas
...Mr. Swinburne had seized upon it and named it for us. The power of Byron's personality lies in " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects : die excellence qf sincerity and strength." Byron found our nation, after its long and victorious... | |
| Wolverhampton sch - 1882 - 238 páginas
...is also restrained from becoming monotonous. Mr. Swinburne aptly describes his personality as " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength." It is this which gives a charm to what in the hands of a feebler poet would have been monotonous and... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 páginas
...Mr. Swinburne has seized upon it and named it for us. The power of Byron's personality lies in ' the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength.' Byron found our nation, after its long and victorious struggle with revolutionary France, fixed in... | |
| |