"follies tricked out so brightly that they"

In Don Juan, Canto XV, stanza 57, Byron describes a rakish pair:

Half virtues and whole vices being combined:
Faults which attract because they are not tame,
Follies tricked out so brightly that they blind.
These seals upon her wax made no impression;
Such was her coldness or her self-possession.

Byron's influence on Pushkin and Lermontov constitutes an important Anglo-Russian connection.

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Part I   Notes I
Part II   Notes II
Part III   Notes III
Part IV   Notes IV
Part V   Notes V
Part VI   Notes VI
Part VII   Notes VII
Part VIII   Notes VIII
Part IX   Notes IX
Part X   Notes X
Part XI   Notes XI
Part XII   Notes XII

©, Acknowledgments
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