The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: The corsair. LaraJohn Murray, 1817 |
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... once more with that versification , in which I have hitherto published nothing but compositions whose former circulation is part of my present and will be of my future regret . With regard to my story , and stories in general , I should ...
... once more with that versification , in which I have hitherto published nothing but compositions whose former circulation is part of my present and will be of my future regret . With regard to my story , and stories in general , I should ...
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... once he turned his head ; But shrunk whene'er the windings of his way Forced on his eye what he would not survey , His lone , but lovely dwelling on the steep , 510 That hailed him first when homeward from the deep : And she - the dim ...
... once he turned his head ; But shrunk whene'er the windings of his way Forced on his eye what he would not survey , His lone , but lovely dwelling on the steep , 510 That hailed him first when homeward from the deep : And she - the dim ...
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... once partaken , blunts the sabre's edge , 66 ' Makes even contending tribes in peace unite , " And hated hosts seem brethren to the sight ! " 731 " Salt seasons dainties - and my food is still " The humblest root , my drink the simplest ...
... once partaken , blunts the sabre's edge , 66 ' Makes even contending tribes in peace unite , " And hated hosts seem brethren to the sight ! " 731 " Salt seasons dainties - and my food is still " The humblest root , my drink the simplest ...
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... once unseen , unsought ; But the wild prospect when the soul reviews- All rushing through their thousand avenues . Ambition's dreams expiring , love's regret , Endangered glory , life itself beset ; The joy untasted , the contempt or ...
... once unseen , unsought ; But the wild prospect when the soul reviews- All rushing through their thousand avenues . Ambition's dreams expiring , love's regret , Endangered glory , life itself beset ; The joy untasted , the contempt or ...
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... once his captive and his court . Not much could Conrad of his sentence blame , His foe , if vanquished , had but shared the same : - Alone he sate - in solitude had scanned His guilty bosom , but that breast he manned : 981 One thought ...
... once his captive and his court . Not much could Conrad of his sentence blame , His foe , if vanquished , had but shared the same : - Alone he sate - in solitude had scanned His guilty bosom , but that breast he manned : 981 One thought ...
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Página 9 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Página 83 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Página 145 - A high demeanour, and a glance that took Their thoughts from others by a single look; And that sarcastic levity of tongue, The stinging of a heart the world hath stung...
Página 181 - Melt into morn, and Light awakes the world. Man has another day to swell the past, And lead him near to little, but his last ; But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth, The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth ; Flowers in the valley, splendour in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. Immortal man ! behold her glories shine, And cry, exulting inly,
Página 160 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped; But 'scaped in vain, for in...
Página 10 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Página 22 - There breathe but few whose aspect might defy The full encounter of his searching eye; He had the skill, when Cunning's gaze would seek To probe his heart and watch his changing cheek At once the observer's purpose to espy, And on himself roll back his scrutiny, Lest he to Conrad rather should betray Some secret thought, than drag that chief's to day.
Página 14 - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 30 - There, in its centre, a sepulchral lamp Burns the slow flame, eternal — but unseen; Which not the darkness of despair can damp, Though vain its ray as it had never been.
Página 11 - Let him who crawls enamoured of decay Cling to his couch, and sicken years away ; Heave his thick breath, and shake his palsied head ; Ours — the fresh turf, and not the feverish bed.