...of all human tales ; It is but the same rehearsal of the past. Kirst freedom, then glory; when this fails. Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Is but one page. The above lines are eloquent in their rugged truth. They describe experience as recorded...

...Byron, the most Augustan of nineteenth-century poets, put it neatly, as an established maxim or law: Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom,...that fails Wealth, vice, corruption; - barbarism at last.12 It would be too much to claim that the classical 'cycle of corruption' was extinct in nineteenth-century...

...effort to break free of language altogether in order to achieve an unmediated set of responses: 108 There is the moral of all human tales; Tis but the...— 'tis better written here, Where gorgeous Tyranny had thus amass'd All treasures, all delights, that eye or ear, Heart, soul could seek, tongue ask —...

...liberating, who provided American liberalism its finest moment. From the Revolution to the Constitution There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the...fails, Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last. LORD BYRON, 1816 David Hume and the "Seamy Side of Human Affairs" During the Civil War Lincoln called...

...example. The fourth canto of Childe Harold provides an appropriate and traditional gloss: -108There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same...History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page . . . Byron supported his moralisation with scholarly authority, Hobhouse's note extracts a long passage...

...history of the Mediterranean civilizations as a series of cycles that always followed the same course: First freedom, and then glory, when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last. And Shelley, meditating upon the Platonic cycle, shuddered before the awful prospect of wars and decadence...

...maturity, decay, and death. The finest thumbnail sketch of this position was penned by Lord Byron: There is the moral of all human tales; Tis but the...History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. For the sake of argument, let's assume that large cyclical forces decide the forms of creativity and...

...the Imperial Mount! 'tis thus the mighty falls. СУШ. There is the moral of all human tales ; 'T is bnt one page,— 'tis better written here Where gorgeous Tyranny hath thus amass'd All treasures, all...

...rather than natural causes." And she quoted Byron's assertion that there is only one tale to History: "First Freedom, and then Glory; when that fails, Wealth, Vice, Corruption — barbarism at last."61 Now, as we have seen in our discussion of Hall, Gilman was not alone in warning of the dangers...

...Behold the Imperial Mount! 'tis thus the mighty falls.1 cvm There is the moral of all human tales; 965 Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom...vast, Hath but one page, - 'tis better written here, 970 Where gorgeous Tyranny hath thus amass'd All treasures, all delights, that eye or ear, Heart, soul...