"Xcv" Quotes from Famous Books
... well as omissions. The first stanza of the First Canto, stanzas xliii. and xc., which celebrate the battles of Albuera and Talavera; the stanzas to the memory of Charles Skinner Matthews, nos. xci., xcii.; and stanzas ix., xcv., xcvi. of the Second Canto, which record Byron's grief for the death of an unknown lover or friend, apparently (letter to Dallas, October 31, 1811) the mysterious Thyrza, and others (vide post, note on the MSS. of the First and Second Cantos of ... — The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... vigor to the murdering sword which is in the hand of Khepra against the rebels." (Chapter XCV., ... — Scarabs • Isaac Myer |