The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 by Lord Byron
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advantages in his harbours, the _English will sell you to Ali._"
--"Parga," _Edinburgh Review_, October, 1819. vol. 32, pp. 263-293. Here, perhaps, the "Franks" are the Russians. Compare-- "Greeks only should free Greece, Not the barbarian with his masque of peace." _The Age of Bronze_, lines 298, 299, _Poetical Works_, 1901, v. 557, note 1.] [202] Îενοίμαν, ἵν' á½Î»Î±ÎµÎ½ á¼ÏεÏÏι Ïόν- [Greek: Genoi/man, i(/n' y(laen e)/pesti po/n-] ÏÎ¿Ï ÏÏόβλημ' á¼Î»Î¹ÎºÏ ÏÏον, á¼- [Greek: tou pro/blêm' a(likyston, a)/-] κÏαν á½Ïὸ Ïλάκα Î£Î¿Ï Î½á½·Î¿Ï , κ.Ï.λ. [Greek: kran y(po\ pla/ka Souni/ou, k.t.l.] Sophocles, _Ajax_, lines 1190-1192.] {173}[203] [Compare-- "What poets feel not, when they make, A pleasure in creating, The world, in _its_ turn, will not take Pleasure in contemplating." Matthew Arnold (Motto to _Poems_, 1869, vol. i. Fly-leaf).] [204] [For this "sentence," see _Journal_, November 16, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 320, note 1; see, too, letter to Rogers, 1814, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 89, note 1.] |
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