 in medias res," (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road), And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What went before — by way of episode, While seated after dinner at his ease, Beside his mistress, in some soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise,...  The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 70by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1905 - 726 pages
....vtf) : — " Most epic poems plunge />/ viedias res (Horace makes this the heroic turn-pike road), And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What...cavern Which serves the happy couple for a tavern," and, second, the stanza of the French ballade, of which an example will be given under the fixed verse-forms... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavern, Which serves the happy couple for a tavern. VII rnity. Above or Love, Hope, Hate, or Fear, It lives all passionless and Forbids all wandering as the worst of sinning, And therefore I shall open with a line (Although it... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...Juan. VI Most epic poets plunge ' in medias res ' 41 (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road), Kept pace with her expectancy, and flew. in A change...spirit of my dream. There was an ancient mansion, bis ease, Beside his mistress in some soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavern, Which serves... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1906 - 488 pages
...Don Juan. VI Most epic poets plunge ' in medias res ' (Horace makes this the heroic turn-pike road), And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What...cavern, Which serves the happy couple for a tavern. VII That is the usual method, but not mine — My way is to begin with the beginning ; The regularity... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 486 pages
...Don Juan. VI Most epic poets plunge ' in medias res' (Horace makes this the heroic turn-pike road), And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What...cavern, Which serves the happy couple for a tavern. VII That is the usual method, but not mine — My way is to begin with the beginning; The regularity... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...last Act, Don Juan Is thrown Into the flames by 'Into the middle of things (Horace, Ars Poetica, 148) d 7 That is the usual 'method, but not mine— My way is to begin with the beginning; The regularity... | |
 | Carlos M. N. Eire - 1989 - 340 pages
...Byron, Don Juan, TG Steffan, E. Steffan, WW Pratt, eds. (4 vols., New Haven, 1982), vol. 2, p. 25: "My way is to begin with the beginning;/ The regularity of my design/ Forbids all wandering as the worst of sinning" (Canto i, st. 7). 2 Introduction to the Commentary on... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...Don Juan. VI. Most epic poets plunge "in medias res " (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road), And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What...before— by way of episode, While seated after dinner at hi» eue, Beside his mistress in some soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavern, Which serves... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...Don Juan. 40 VI Most epic poets plunge "in medias res" (Horace makes this the heroic tumpike road), And then your hero tells, whene'er you please. What...in some soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavem, Which serves the happy couple for a tavem. VII That is the usual method, but not mine — My... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 pages
...tells, when'er you please, What went before — by way of episode . . . . (1 :6) That, says Byron, "is the usual method, but not mine — / My way is to begin with the beginning" (1:7). Commenting on this passage in his seminal chapter on "Form"in Don Juan in Context, McGann concludes... | |
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