...best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accursed, R, BROWNING, Apparent Failure, st, 7 Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others' good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But in some strange perversity of thought, That swayed him onward with a secret...

...people frowned. Such a psychological problem as we find in Lara might well perplex the drawing-rooms : "Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others' good, But not in pity — not because he ought, But in some strange perversity of thought, That swayed him onward with a...

...fate" (1. 879), "destiny beset him there" (1. 900); but even Lara, it is said, 1 Don Juan XIV, 5. 84 "at last confounded good and ill, And half mistook for fate the acts of will" (I. 335 f.) In Manfred there are no such doubts. "Man is man and master of his fate." To the spirits...

...o'er his stormy life ; But haughty still, and loth himself to blame, He call'd on Nature's self to share the shame, And charged all faults upon the fleshly...and ill, And half mistook for fate the acts of will. Whether the picture be accurate or no, it is sincere ; and it is only because Byron's critics were...

...whole drama. Or, on another interpretation, we might write of Don Alvaro or even of his creator : — He at last confounded good and ill, And half mistook for fate the acts of will. 1. Manfred II, iv. 2. Manfred I, ii. 3. Don Alvaro V, li (VI, 400). 4. Lara, I, xviii. Had Don Alvaro...

...of Don Alvaro's creator, as we might equally well write of the Don Alvaro of the famous soliloquy : He at last confounded good and ill, And half mistook for fate the acts of will. 1. Ibid., I, x1x. While another point of view would be represented if we adopted as an epigraph for...

...o'er his stormy life ; But haughty still, and loth himself to blame, He eall'd on Nature's self to share the shame, And charged all faults upon the fleshly...and ill, And half mistook for fate the acts of will. Whether the picture be accurate or no, it is sincere ; and it is only because Byron's critics were...

...Brooklyn. NY Ba nard Literary Association (2) (3) ; Athletic Association (3); Scribblers Club (3). "Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others' good. ALBERT LEON SIFF New York City Class Track Team (2); 1912-1913 Dual Meet and Interclass Games (3) ;...

...exult and half regret . . . But haughty still and loth himself to blame, He call'd on Nature's self to share the shame, And charged all faults upon the fleshly...and ill, And half mistook for fate the acts of will. It would be wrong to regard this as Byronic hokum, for the wording is very precise. Lara looks demonic...

...follow'd baffled youth; But haughty still, and loth himself to blame, He call'd on Nature's self to share the shame, And charged all faults upon the fleshly...and ill, And half mistook for fate the acts of will: 144 But Carlos is more than a mere compound of self-portraiture and of early Byronic heroes, as one...