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...Toward the end of Canto III he sums up his position: I have not loved the world, nor the world me,But let us part fair foes; I do believe, Though I have...deem O'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; That two, or one, are almost what they seem, That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream. In Canto...

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...position which Byron finally adopts in relation to the world of men, that of indifference ('I have not loved the world, nor the world me, / But let us part fair foes'), is arrived at through what he has claimed to be the spiritual consolations of his solitude. Simultaneously,...

...were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued. I have not loved the World, nor the World me,— But let...found them not, that there may be Words which are things,—hopes which will not deceive, And Virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing:...

...possessing things less through than as their representations, to contemplate such possession as possible: "I do believe, / Though I have found them not, that there may be / Words which are things" (3. 1 14). (Sometime between this statement and the Ilaidee episode in Don Juan one of his narrators...