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The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale (1813) Inferred

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) · 1813

InferredFuller quotes two phrases—"young affections have run to waste and watered a desert" and "weeds of dark luxuriance tares of haste"—that appear to form a continuous passage from Byron's *The Giaour*, though the first phrase's exact source is uncertain.

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III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“Your "young affections have run to waste and watered a desert" whence sprung "weeds of dark luxuriance tares of haste”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller quotes two phrases—"young affections have run to waste and watered a desert" and "weeds of dark luxuriance tares of haste"—that appear to form a continuous passage from Byron's The Giaour, though the first phrase's exact source is uncertain.