...and hated, sought and feared; XVIII There was in him a vital scorn of all: As if the worst had fall'n which could befall He stood a stranger in this breathing world. An erring spirit from another hurled; (Byron l980: IL 224-225) He in fact already uses the same model in Childe Harolds Pilgrimage ofl8I2:...

...of travel in a state of afterlife: There was in him a vital scorn of all: As if the worst had fall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing...memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret. (1.17.1-8) This "stranger in this breathing world" mourns the past, mourns life and a place among the...

...Opinion varying o'er his hidden lot ... There was in him a vital scorn of all: As if the worst hadfall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurled; 66 beneath, The men with whom he felt condemned to breathe, And longed by good or ill to separate Himself...

...'impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony' are exemplified in Lara, where the hero is described as 'a stranger in this breathing world, / An erring spirit...from another hurled; / A thing of dark imaginings' (Canto 1, section xviii). Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810) are long narrative ballads...

...having loved too well.1 XVIII. There was in him a vital scorn of all : "• As if the worst had fallen which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing...memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : 320 i. gayest of the gay.—[MS.] ii. an inward scorn of all. — [MS.] With more capacity for love...

...this sequel. The lines beginning, * There was in him a vital scorn of all : As if the worst had fall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurled'— while they hint at the sad catastrophe of the former poem, ad mirably carry on the mental history of...

...hate for having lov'd too well. There was in him a vital scorn of all: 145 As if the worst had fall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurl'd; A thing of dark imaginings, that shap'd By choice the perils he by chance escap'd; 15o But...

...wrung from rest; In vigilance of grief that would compel The soul to hate for having loved too well. He stood, a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurl'd. . . . ("Lara," 290ff.) The details of this character's appearance are consistent from one example...

...modern sensibility, and part of the irrevocable change that he made in it. Of his Lara Byron says: He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurl'd; A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped; But 'scaped...