The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes, Volumen 10Suttaby, 1885 |
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... the dolphin sporting in its native waves , at every turn , however grotesque , displaying a new hue and a new beauty , the noble author has shown an absolute control over his means ; and at every cadence 12 NOTICES AND REVIEWS .
... the dolphin sporting in its native waves , at every turn , however grotesque , displaying a new hue and a new beauty , the noble author has shown an absolute control over his means ; and at every cadence 12 NOTICES AND REVIEWS .
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... turn back and wound her widowed privacy with unhallowed strains of cold - blooded mockery - was brutally , fiendishly , inexpiably mean . For impurities there might be some possibility of pardon , were they supposed to spring only from ...
... turn back and wound her widowed privacy with unhallowed strains of cold - blooded mockery - was brutally , fiendishly , inexpiably mean . For impurities there might be some possibility of pardon , were they supposed to spring only from ...
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... turn round and travestie himself : the drollery is in the utter discontinuity of ideas and feelings . The noble lord is almost the only writer who has prostituted his talents in this way . He hallows in order to desecrate ; takes a ...
... turn round and travestie himself : the drollery is in the utter discontinuity of ideas and feelings . The noble lord is almost the only writer who has prostituted his talents in this way . He hallows in order to desecrate ; takes a ...
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... turns upon us with a sneer of contempt , or laughs our sensibility to scorn . Indeed , throughout , we discover the heartless despiser of human nature ; -a denaturalised being , who , having exhausted every species of sensual ...
... turns upon us with a sneer of contempt , or laughs our sensibility to scorn . Indeed , throughout , we discover the heartless despiser of human nature ; -a denaturalised being , who , having exhausted every species of sensual ...
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... turn , upon the same task , from which alone could have sprung this extraordinary poem -the most powerful and , in many respects , painful display of the versatility of genius that has ever been left for succeeding ages to wonder at and ...
... turn , upon the same task , from which alone could have sprung this extraordinary poem -the most powerful and , in many respects , painful display of the versatility of genius that has ever been left for succeeding ages to wonder at and ...
Términos y frases comunes
American revolutionary war Antonia battle of Dresden beautiful Ben Jonson better blood Boabdil boat bosom breast call'd Canto cavalier servente Centaur charming Childe Harold crew death Don Alfonso Don Juan Donna Inez doubt e'er earth Eutropius eyes fair fame father feel genius gold grew Haidée hand heart heaven honour hope hour human husband jelick Juan's Julia knew lady Lady Byron learn'd least lips lived look look'd Lord Byron maid medias res mind moral mother muse ne'er never night o'er ocean pass'd passion Pedrillo perhaps pity poem poetical poets rhyme round Samian wine scarce seem'd Seville sherbets ship shore sleep smile sort soul Southey Spain stanzas stood style sublime sure sweet tears There's things Thou shalt thought true turn'd wave whate'er wife wind wine words Wordsworth young youth
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Página 236 - And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?
Página 236 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 43 - I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one: Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan — We all have seen him, in the Pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time.
Página 140 - As eager to anticipate their grave; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Página 238 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one ? You have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? II.
Página 125 - OH, ye ! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain...
Página 45 - in medias res', (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road) And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What went before — by way of episode, While seated after dinner at his ease, Beside his mistress in some soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavern, Which serves the happy couple for a tavern.
Página 152 - The other father had a weaklier child, Of a soft cheek, and aspect delicate ; But the boy bore up long, and with a mild And patient spirit held aloof his fate ; Little he said, and now and then he smiled, As if to win a part from off the weight He saw increasing on his father's heart, With the deep deadly thought that they must part.
Página 245 - Ave Maria! blessed be the hour! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower, Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.
Página 246 - Oh, Hesperus ! thou bringest all good things — Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer, To the young bird the parent's brooding wings, The welcome stall to the...