 | Anne Kostelanetz Mellor - 1993 - 292 pages
...Manfred of his beloved sister Astarte, at the same time emphasizing that they were the same person: She was like me in lineaments — her eyes, Her hair,...Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften 'd all, and temper'd into beauty. (Manfred, II:ii, 106-109) Percy Shelley in Epipsychidion hails... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...such, they seem'd not such to me Yet there was one — WITCH: Spare not thyself -proceed. 105 MANFRED: She was like me in lineaments - her eyes, Her hair,...beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, 1 10 The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with... | |
 | Kay Redfield Jamison - 1996 - 388 pages
...ours When we were in our youth, and had one heart, And loved each other as we should not love. . . . She was like me in lineaments — her eyes, Her hair,...temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings128 They traveled together in the summer and fall of 1813 and then spent part of the early... | |
 | Steven Bruhm - 2001 - 242 pages
...to assume a "real" woman into his own ego and thus to obliterate her. He says of his sister Astarte: She was like me in lineaments — her eyes, Her hair,...mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty;... I loved her, and destroy'd her! (1980-91, 2.2.105-17) To this self-representation of Byron's gender... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - 2002 - 410 pages
...originally not alone. In Lady Astartc. whom we can view as his sister, he found a female alterego: She was like me in lineaments - her eyes, Her hair,...tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; Bui softcn'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thouglas and wanderings, The quest... | |
 | Deborah Forbes - 2004 - 260 pages
...self and an almost-self. Manfred emphasizes the similarities between himself and his partner in crime: "She was like me in lineaments — her eyes, / Her...very tone / Even of her voice, they said were like to mine."82 In other words, even the one true other in Manfred's life is a mirror of himself. According... | |
 | Drummond Bone - 2004 - 340 pages
...Montesquieu's Persian Letters).14 Astarte is evidently not only Manfred's sister but his twin: She was like to me in lineaments - her eyes, Her hair, her features,...tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine (Manfred, n.ii.105-7) The only being with whom Manfred could feel anything like sympathy is virtually... | |
 | Nathaniel Branden - 2008 - 244 pages
...Manfred describes the woman he loved, he tells us that she had the same great capacities as his own: "She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings/ The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind/To comprehend the universe . . ." Though this view of woman was certainly not the prevailing view... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 534 pages
...her, — some traits of his own character and the iSatanic character are thrown in by contrast : " She was like me in lineaments — her eyes Her hair,...Even of her voice, they said were like to mine ; But softened all, and tempered into beauty : She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of... | |
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She was like me in lineaments — her eyes, Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said, were like to mine ; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty : She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden... 
