 And I will war, at least in words (and — should My chance so happen — deeds) with all who war With Thought ;— and of Thought's foes by far most rude Tyrants and sycophants have been and are. I know not who may conquer : if I could Have such a prescience,...  The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Seite 8von George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Alwyn Briscoe - 1924 - 340 Seiten
...his death have clouded in the biographies the glory of the greater performance. He had written : And I will war, at least in words (and— should My chance...if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain, sworn downright detestation Of every despotism in every nation. The war against... | |
 | Dora Neill Raymond - 1924 - 384 Seiten
...Mrs. Hunt was priding herself on some particularly feline thrust, that Byron declared that he would war, " at least in words (and — should my chance...if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain, sworn, downright detestation Of every despotism in every nation." Lord Byron... | |
 | Walter Alwyn Briscoe - 1924 - 350 Seiten
...his death have clouded in the biographies the glory of the greater performance. He had written : And I will war, at least in words (and — should My chance...most rude Tyrants and sycophants have been and are, 1 know not who may conquer : if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain,... | |
 | Andrew Elfenbein - 1995 - 310 Seiten
..."had declared formal war against it in words." Carlyle refers to a particular moment in Don Juan: "And I will war, at least in words (and— should / My...rude, / Tyrants and Sycophants have been and are" (1x.24). Characteristically, Carlyle reduces Byron's war against "Tyrants and Sycophants" to one against... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 2003 - 280 Seiten
...139). Of course, Byron had a strong sense of his own poetic militancy, describing himself as one who 'will war, at least in words (and — should | My chance so happen — deeds)' (IX. 24)^ but in Don Juan he uses the siege metaphor to image the power of his own poetic performance... | |
 | Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Merry G. Perry - 2004 - 372 Seiten
...canto continues Byron increasingly digresses from the love and war adventures of Juan, and declaims "I will war, at least in words (and— should / My...happen— deeds), with all who war / With Thought .../... Tyrants / ... my plain, sworn, downright detestation / Of every despotism in every nation."48... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - 2006 - 284 Seiten
...ambitions of epic scope: it is a poem designed to lend its weight to the overthrow of tyranny: And I will war at least in words (and - should My chance...so happen - deeds) with all who war With Thought. (IX, 24) I want not just to accept that claim but to construe it rather literally - to argue that one... | |
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