 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - 532 էջ
...benches. Indeed it is very much to be doubted if Mr. Emerson might not honestly say with Lord Byron — "I don't pretend that I quite understand My own meaning when I would be very fine."5 That somewhat expressive sentence about casting pearls before swine will cover the case of... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - 2005 - 736 էջ
...stories that figure in Don Juan." Thus Lord Byron wrote Don Juan to amuse himself, to unburden his brain: "[But] the fact is that I have nothing plann'd, Unless...it were [to be] a moment merry, A novel word in my vocabulary."1' As he wrote Don Juan, his pen seemed to glide over the paper involuntarily. The rhyme... | |
 | Craig Raine - 2006 - 224 էջ
...goes into a second edition, I have thought of prefixing to it the lines of Byron from Don Juan': viz 'I don't pretend that I quite understand / My own meaning when I would be very fine. ' Walt Whitman's 'Shut Not Your Doors' (one of the 'Inscriptions' prefacing Leaves of Grass) claims... | |
 | Andrew Franta - 2007 - 15 էջ
...against those who "have accused me of a strange design / Against the creed and morals of the land": I don't pretend that I quite understand My own meaning...fine; But the fact is that I have nothing plann'd. . . . (4:5) The claim that he has "nothing plann'd," of course, recalls Byron's letter to Murray (which... | |
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Some have accused me of a strange design Against the creed and morals of the land, And trace it in this poem every line : I don't pretend that I quite understand My own meaning when I would be very fine... 
