Chapter I · Chapter 1

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

the state of being absent

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a feeling of intense dislike

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

one or some or every or all without specification

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a privileged class holding hereditary titles

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

a member of the aristocracy

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

plural of “aspiration” — a will to succeed

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

inflected form of “become” — enter or assume a certain state or condition

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

the supreme effort one can make

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

(comparative of “good”) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

inflected form of “bear” — have

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

possessive form of “byron” — English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the particular occupation for which you are trained

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a period of 100 years

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

completely ordinary and unremarkable

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

make a compromise; arrive at a compromise

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

plural of “conception” — an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

feeling or showing worry or solicitude

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

plural of “conspirator” — a member of a conspiracy

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

of or pertaining to or typical of Europe

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

past form of “contrast” — put in opposition to show or emphasize differences

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

any system of principles or beliefs

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a cynical feeling of distrust

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

plural of “difficulty” — an effort that is inconvenient

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

suitable to or characteristic of drama

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a division of the United Kingdom

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use “Europe” to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

apart from; not including

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

presently existing

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

plural of “fact” — a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

a competitor thought likely to win

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

with resolute determination

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

willing to give and share unstintingly

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

subject to guidance or control especially after launching

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the aggregate of past events

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

causing hurt

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

plural of “idea” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a slight illness

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

habitual

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

of comparatively little physical weight or density

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

creative writing of recognized artistic value

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

kept in good condition

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a feeling of thoughtful sadness

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

preside over

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

used to form the superlative

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

and not; used after a negative to add a second negative

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

an insignificant place

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

the place where something begins, where it springs into being

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

lacking in energy or will

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

the time that has elapsed

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

an odd or unusual characteristic

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the character of the positive electric pole

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

indicating exactness or preciseness

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

plural of “predilection” — a predisposition in favor of something

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

plural of “principle” — a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

past form of “produce” — bring forth or yield

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

people in general considered as a whole

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the state of having good sense and sound judgment

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a calm, lengthy, intent consideration

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

(usually preceded by “in”) a detail or point

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

(physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

(usually preceded by “in”) a detail or point

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

markedly new or introducing radical change

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

express in words

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

established or decided beyond dispute or doubt

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the quality of being significant

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

unusual or striking

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

relating to human society and its members

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

plural of “socialist” — a political advocate of socialism

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a solemn statement made under oath

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

of or relating to or concerning theology

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

in or at that place or location

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome

From this reading Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy.

very generous

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

plural of “view” — a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading VOL.

feel or have a desire for; want strongly

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

which person or people

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.

in the company of; together with

From this reading I. Byron's influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron's reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 His ethical poverty 249 Conclusion 250 BYRON.

but in spite of that

From this reading Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat who became the favourite poet of all the most high-minded conspirators and socialists of continental Europe for half a century; of the best of those, that is to say, who have borne the most unsparing testimony against the present ordering of society, and against the theological and moral conceptions which have guided and maintained it.