Critical Miscellanies Voli 2

still works. A mysterious and potent word from the gods has gone abroad over the face of the earth. This larger influence was not impaired by Byron's ethical poverty. The latter was an inevitable consequence of his defective discipline. The triteness of his moral climax is occasionally startling. When Sardanapalus, for instance, sees Zarina torn from him, and is stricken with profound anguish at the pain with which h