 | Albert Brecknock - 1926 - 344 páginas
...vice by public rumour and private rancour. ... I felt that if what was said, whispered, and muttered, was true, I was unfit for England ; if false, England was unfit for me. I withdrew." On leaving England for the last time his sister was almost the only person from whom he parted with... | |
 | 1922 - 924 páginas
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that if what was whispered and muttered and...England; if false, England was unfit for me. I withdrew." The separation from his wife and the departure from England in 1816, never to return, mark a stage... | |
 | Wayland Farries Vaughan - 1928 - 340 páginas
...knightly or noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that if what was whispered, and muttered, and...England; if false, England was unfit for me. I withdrew." With misery and indignation firing him to redeem himself with poetic glory, he wrote "Childe Harold"... | |
 | Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1924 - 516 páginas
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...Switzerland, in the shadow of the Alps, and by the blue depths of the lakes, I was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I crossed the mountains, but... | |
 | Kay Redfield Jamison - 1996 - 388 páginas
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...England; if false, England was unfit for me. ... I recollect, some time after, Madame de Stael said to me in Switzerland, "You should not have warred... | |
 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies - 2003 - 366 páginas
...was accused," he wrote later, "of every monstrous vice by public rumour, — and private rancour ... I felt that, If what was whispered and muttered and...unfit for England, - if false - England was unfit for me."2 Once abroad, Byron, being Byron, further increased his notoriety by feeding off it. In Cantos... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - 2005 - 736 páginas
...at that point the proud and lofty words which he set down soon afterwards in his imperishable style: "If what was whispered and muttered and murmured was true — I was [2,7] unfit for England — if false — England was unfit for me. — — — I withdrew — But this... | |
 | Andrew Franta - 2007 - 15 páginas
...and produces effects without quite achieving the status of a cause. As Byron explains his departure, "I felt that, If what was whispered and muttered and...England, - if false — England was unfit for me" (95). His self-exile constitutes an acknowledgement that, in the realm of public opinion, the difference... | |
 | Ben Wilson - 2007 - 482 páginas
...rancour: my name . . . was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and rumoured was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me." It was little wonder, therefore, that Byron's favourite subject in exile was "decrying hypocrisy and... | |
 | 1869 - 830 páginas
...or a noble one, since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that if what was whispered and muttered and...Switzerland, in the shadow of the Alps, and by the blue depths of the lakes, I was pursued and breathed upon by the blight. I crossed the mountains, but it... | |
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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour : my name, which had been a knightly or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and... 
