The Real Lord Byron: New Views of the Poet's Life, Volumen 2Hurst and Blackett, 1883 |
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The Real Lord Byron: New Views of the Poet's Life, Volumen 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Vista completa - 1883 |
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affair Allegra Argostoli Augusta AUTHOR OF JOHN biographer Blessington Bologna Byron wrote Canto Carbonari cause Cephalonia chief cicisbeo circumstances Claire Count Guiccioli Countess Countess Guiccioli course deed delight desire destruction England English epistle favour feeling Fletcher friends Genoa gentleman Greece Greek Hobhouse honour hope Hoppner humour Hunt's husband imagined interest Italian Italy JOHN HALIFAX knew Lady Blessington Lady Byron Lady Caroline Lamb Leghorn Leigh Hunt less letter literary living London Lord Byron Madame Marianna matter Mavrocordatos Medwin Memoirs ment Metaxata Missolonghi months Moore Moore's Murray nature ness never novel opinion Palazzo passion persons Pietro Gamba Pisa poet poet's publisher purpose quarrel Ravenna readers regarded respect Romagnese scarcely Shelley sister sister-in-law society speak story Suliotes temper Teresa Guiccioli thing thou thought thousand guineas tion told Trelawny truth Venetian Venice vols whilst wife wife's Wilmot Horton wish woman words writing written
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Página 257 - The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece, around me see! The Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free. Awake! (not Greece — she is awake!) Awake, my spirit!
Página 257 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!
Página 49 - He is a person of the most consummate genius, and capable, if he would direct his energies to such an end, of becoming the redeemer of his degraded country. But it is his weakness to be proud...
Página 257 - The land of honourable death Is here. Up, to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out (less often sought than found) A soldier's grave, for thee the best ! Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest ! PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
Página 98 - But all this is too late; I love you and you love me — at least, you say so, and act as if you did so, which last is a great consolation in all events. But I more than love you, and cannot cease to love you. Think of me sometimes when the Alps and the ocean divide us — but they never will unless you wish it.
Página 98 - the following remarkable note : — ' " My dearest Teresa, — I have read this book in your garden ; — lay love, you were absent, or else I could not have read it. It is a favourite book of yours, and the writer was a friend of mine. You. .will not understand these English words, and others will not understand them, — which is the reason I have not scrawled them in Italian.
Página 50 - The following morn was rainy, cold, and dim: Ere Maddalo arose I called on him, And whilst I waited, with his child I played; A lovelier toy sweet Nature never made...
Página 75 - They made me, without my search, a species of popular idol ; they, without reason or judgment, beyond the caprice of their good pleasure, threw down the image from its pedestal ; it was not broken with the fall, and they would, it seems, again replace it, — but they shall not. " You ask about my health : about the beginning of the year I was in a state of great exhaustion, attended by such debility of stomach that nothing remained upon it ; and I was obliged to reform my ' way of life,' which was...
Página 49 - His passions and his powers are incomparably greater than those of other men, and instead of the latter having been employed in curbing the former, they have mutually lent each other strength. His ambition preys upon itself, for want of objects which it can consider worthy of exertion.