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" I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent... "
The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical notice by J. W. Lake - Page 311
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825
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The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron, Volume 2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 340 pages
...glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. XLIV. I love the language, that soft hastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, . And sounds as if it should he writ on satin, With syllahles which hreathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 95

1825 - 878 pages
...Italian. The sweet melody of this language, which Byron happily, but rather ludicrously, describes as -that soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, seems to have been intended by Nature to supply the deficiency in thought and in strength of mind,...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 4-5

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1826 - 466 pages
...glimmers Where reeking London's smoky canldron simmers. XLIV. I love the language, that soft hastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth,...Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we 're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all. XLV. I like the women too (forgive my folly),...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...to borrow That sort of farthing-candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's su/nk\ cauldron I : Tmnboargi ! thy 'larnni gives promise of war. \...to the Fair Greeee! sad relic of departed .worth ! seem* uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, Krnnting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and...
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Metropolitan Improvements; Or, London in the Nineteenth Century: Being a ...

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 pages
...architecture only, as the noble author of Childe Harold does of their language, when he calls it " that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from...With syllables which breathe of the sweet south." So of their architecture I adapt another quotation from the same illustrious bard, and you may see...
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The works of lord Byron including his suppressed poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 pages
...\Vlnrh iiiflis like kisses from a female mould, And -omuls as if it should he writ on satin, Willi syllables which breathe of the sweet south, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That tiot a single accent seems uncouth, like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we...
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The works of lord Byron including the suppressed poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...love the language, that soft bastard F,aliu, Which melts like kisses from a female mouib, And sound* as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which...the sweet south, And gentle liquids gliding all so pal in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural,...
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Metropolitan Improvements; Or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in ...

1828 - 198 pages
...language, when he calls it " that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female month, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet south." So of their architecture I adapt another quotation from the same illustrious bard, and you may see...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Including the Suppressed Poems. Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...sort of farthing-candle light, which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky cauldron simmers. XLIV. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, Aud sounds as if it should be writ on satin, Wilb syllables which breathe of the sweet soulh, And genlle...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1829 - 478 pages
...borrow That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. 1 love the language, that soft bastard. Latin, Which...from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be wiit on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat...
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