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... perhaps for melody . As it is longer , and more lyrical and Greek , than I intended at first , I have not divided it into acts , but called what I have sent Part First ; as there is a suspension of the action , which may either close ...
... perhaps for melody . As it is longer , and more lyrical and Greek , than I intended at first , I have not divided it into acts , but called what I have sent Part First ; as there is a suspension of the action , which may either close ...
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... Perhaps she looks upon them as I look . Methinks a being that is beautiful Becometh more so as it looks on beauty , The eternal beauty of undying things . Oh , Anah ! Irad . Japh . But she loves thee not . Alas ! Irad . And proud ...
... Perhaps she looks upon them as I look . Methinks a being that is beautiful Becometh more so as it looks on beauty , The eternal beauty of undying things . Oh , Anah ! Irad . Japh . But she loves thee not . Alas ! Irad . And proud ...
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... perhaps deserved it ; - And , in its stead , a heaviness of heart- A weakness of the spirit - listless days , And nights inexorable to sweet sleep- Have come upon me . Peace ! what peace ? the calm Of desolation , and the stillness of ...
... perhaps deserved it ; - And , in its stead , a heaviness of heart- A weakness of the spirit - listless days , And nights inexorable to sweet sleep- Have come upon me . Peace ! what peace ? the calm Of desolation , and the stillness of ...
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... Perhaps even hours , ye will be changed , rent , hurl'd Before the mass of waters ; and yon cave , Which seems to lead into a lower world , Shall have its depths search'd by the sweeping wave , And dolphins gambol in the lion's den ...
... Perhaps even hours , ye will be changed , rent , hurl'd Before the mass of waters ; and yon cave , Which seems to lead into a lower world , Shall have its depths search'd by the sweeping wave , And dolphins gambol in the lion's den ...
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... perhaps , to denote the occasional stupefaction , drowsiness , and torpidity of soul produced by the impending destruction upon the latest of the Ante- diluvians . But , on the whole , it is not unworthy of Lord Byron . WILSON . - Lord ...
... perhaps , to denote the occasional stupefaction , drowsiness , and torpidity of soul produced by the impending destruction upon the latest of the Ante- diluvians . But , on the whole , it is not unworthy of Lord Byron . WILSON . - Lord ...
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Aholibamah Anah Arbaces ARNOLD Assyria aught Bactria BARBARIGO bear beauty behold Beleses better blood Bourb Bourbon breath brother Cæs Cæsar Chief dare death Doge dost thou ducal dungeon earth Enter eternal Euphrates Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel foes Foscari Francesco Foscari Giacopo glory Guard hath hear heart heaven HEBER hence hour Irad Japh Japhet king leave less live look Lord Byron Loredano Marina monarch mortal mountains Myrrha ne'er never Nineveh Noah noble o'er Offi palace PANIA passion Pietro Loredano pray prince rebels Rome Salemenes Sardanapalus satraps SCENE Semiramis SFERO signor sire slave Soldiers son of Noah soul speak spirit stars Stran sword tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought twas unto Venice walls weep wilt word wouldst
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Página 318 - His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder: For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they lived in. In his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket.
Página 61 - He that without diminution of any other excellence shall preserve all the unities unbroken, deserves the like applause with the architect who shall display all the orders of architecture in a citadel without any deduction from its strength. But the principal beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy, and the greatest graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life.
Página 61 - ... time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented that they were not known by him, or not observed : nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus. Such violations of rules merely positive become the comprehensive genius of...
Página 46 - Let it suffice thee that thou know'st Us happy, and without love no happiness. Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy'st (And pure thou wert created) we enjoy In eminence, and obstacle find none Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclusive bars; Easier than air with air, if spirits embrace, Total they mix, union of pure with pure Desiring...
Página 57 - TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OF A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE LORD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITERS, WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND ILLUSTRATED THAT OF EUROPE.
Página 72 - Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains ? The despotism of vice — The weakness and the wickedness of luxury — The negligence — the apathy — the evils Of sensual sloth — produce ten thousand^ tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
Página 61 - Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me; before such authorities I am afraid to stand, not that I think the present question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority, but because it is to be suspected that these precepts have not been so easily received but for better reasons than I have yet been able to find.
Página 161 - Zarina ! I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse — borne away with every breath ! Misplaced upon the throne — misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be — let it end.
Página 61 - ... and that he at last deliberately persisted in a practice, which he might have begun by chance. As nothing is essential to the fable, but Unity of Action, and...
Página 56 - Shakespeare ; and so much the better in one sense, for I look upon him to be the worst of models, though the most extraordinary of writers. It has been my object to be as simple and severe as Alfieri, and I have broken down the poetry as nearly as I could to common language.