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" I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 304
1818
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Last London Ed ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...farthing candlelighl which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. i XLIV. I love Ihe language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like...satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, I (I) In (he MS."From the tall peasant with her ruddy bronre."— E. ¡a) III the MS— " Like her...
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ...

William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...the Italian in comparison with our own : " I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melta LANGUAGE. § 37. This is the Latin language in new forms, produced by sathi With syllables that breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in That...
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Glossology: Being a Treatise on the Nature of Language, and on the Language ...

Charles V. Kraitsir - English language - 1852 - 252 pages
...useless rags on Latin words, diphthongizes so many * BYRON, so Anglo-Saxon in his style, says: * " I love the language that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses in a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables that breathe of the...
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Lights and Shadows of Artist Life and Character

James Smith - Art - 1853 - 448 pages
...their conversation much in the same strain in Italian : this elicited a second reproof conveyed in — That soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from...mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin. This was worse and worse, and extorted from one of them the remark, " We really must respect the delicacy...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and a Sketch of His ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...drunken man's dead eye in maudlin sorrow, But with all Heaven t* himself; that day will break as XLIV. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a fournie muuth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and a Sketch of His ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...ТЫ sort of {«ruling candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. XLIV. as shriek it from their caves ; The scroll» of Enoch prophesied it long I n female mouth, And sounds as if it should he writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Including the Suppressed Poems. Also a Sketch of ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 pages
...sort of farthing-candle light which glimmers Wtiere reeking London's smoky cauldron simmers. XLiV. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...sweet south, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, 'I hat not a single accent seems uncouth, LIKO our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Whicn...
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Michigan Journal of Education and Teachers' Magazine, Volume 3

Education - 1856 - 412 pages
...Italian tengue: " I love the language that soft bastard Latin, That flows like liquid music from the mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables that, breath« of the sweet south. And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 698 pages
...1 I love the language, that soft hastard latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mnuth, Which sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables...south, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That uot a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...simmers. 1 Ilove the language, that soft hastard latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, Which sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables...breathe of the sweet south , And gentle liquids gliding ail so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting...
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