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  • Cp. ‘Childe’ in _Childe Maurice_, etc. 3.4: ‘borrow,’ ransom.]

    Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

  • _And pleased the Childe appeared nor ere the boy reviled_.} _And pleased for a glimpse appeared the woeful Childe_.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Roland Childe is the longtime puzzle-solving adversary of the narrator, Richard Swift.

    REVIEW: Infinities edited by Peter Crowther 2004

  • Roland Childe is the longtime puzzle-solving adversary of the narrator, Richard Swift.

    REVIEW: Diamond Dogs & Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds 2004

  • The Sceptic's figure of the deathbed comforter recalls Byron's own feminine icon of deathbed watch in Childe Harold 4.72,

    Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron 2001

  • This Flood is followed, not by a conventional rainbow, but by the figure Byron used in Childe Harold 4, the Claudean sunset of the Italian picturesque; Byron's "one vast Iris of the West" (4.27) becomes Hemans's own "purple west,"

    Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_ 1998

  • At first glance, this looks like the rather cliched version of spontaneous composition once associated with the "eruptive" school of English Romanticism, e.g., with Byron's comparison of his writing fits to a live volcano or his idealization of perfect expression, in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, as something like a verbal lightning bolt: "Could I embody and unbosom now/That which is most within me ... into one word,/And that word were Lightning, I would speak" (3. 905-11).

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • Third, the interested and culturally-mediated arguments that make up Byron's and Hemans's debate over religious scepticism: texts to be discussed include Byron's The Curse of Minerva which declares the Athenian Hellenism (and which is reprised in Childe Harold

    Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron 2001

  • You shall see Husband anon the Childe, which is indifferently recovered in his armes, and if Nurse and his holy

    The Decameron 2004

  • The Curtleaxe is taken up by some Childe, that is innocent, or rather ignorant of the Ceremonie, and so layd downe againe; then doe they observe, whether the same side is uppermost, which lay before, and so proceed accordingly.

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

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