...England, is cant—cant political, cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral, but always cant—multiplied through all the varieties of life. It is the fashion;...by taking the tone of the time. I say cant; because the English are far less moral than they were before the prevalence of this verbal decorum !"—Byron's...

...expressed it, that " In these days the grand ' primum mobile' of England is cant ; cant political, cant religious, cant moral ; but always cant, multiplied...the varieties of life. It is the fashion, and while is lasts will be too powerful for those who can exist only by taking the tone of the time. I say cant,...

...passage for which we forgive him, and here it is. " The truth is, that in these days the grand primum mobile of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical,...those who can only exist by taking the tone of the times. I say cant, because it is a thing of words, without the smallest influence upon human actions...

...for which we forgive him, and here it is. " The truth is, that in these days the grand primum mebtie of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical,...moral; but always cant, multiplied through all the rarieties of life. It is the fashion, and, while it lasts, will be too powerful for those who can only...

...passage for which we forgive him, and here it is. " The truth is, that in these days the grand primum mobile of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical,...those who can only exist by taking the tone of the times. I say cant, because it is a thing of words, without the smallest influence upon human actions;...

...that in these days the grand '• pranum mobile" of England is cant ; cant political, cant poeucal, each And one as alt a ghastly gap did make In his...awake Those whom they thirst for ; though the sou coni, because it is a tiling of words, without the smallest influence upon human actions , the English...

...Byron thus noted the progress of this disease : " The truth is that in these days the great 'primum mobile ' of England is cant; cant political, cant...those who can only exist by taking the tone of the times. I say cant, because it is a thing of words, without the smallest influence upon human actions...

...soft a name. " The truth is," wrote one well qualified to judge, "that in these days the grand primum mobile of England is cant — cant political, cant...cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life. I say cant, because it is a thing of words, without the smallest influence upon human actions ; the...

...is ' — he writes in the letter to Murray against Bowles — ' that in these days the grand primum mobile of England is cant ; cant political, cant poetical,...cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life.' 2 He denounced hypocrisy as the worst of all crimes, and indeed he did his utmost to unmask falsehood...

...legitimate number." — Conversations with Medicm. (7). "The truth is that in these days the grand priuuim mobile of England is cant ; cant political, cant poetical,...cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life." — Letter to Mr. Murray from Ravenna. (8). " In the preface to Cantos 6, 7, 8, Byron gives, amongst...