The works of Thomas Moore, Volumen 161832 |
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... Madame de Staël told me ( ten days ago , at Copet ) marvellous and grievous things ; but I have seen nothing of it but the motto , which promises amiably for us and for our tragedy . ' If such be the posy , what should the ring be ? — a ...
... Madame de Staël told me ( ten days ago , at Copet ) marvellous and grievous things ; but I have seen nothing of it but the motto , which promises amiably for us and for our tragedy . ' If such be the posy , what should the ring be ? — a ...
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... Madame as brilliant as ever . << I came here by the Netherlands and the Rhine route , and Basle , Berne , Morat , and Lausanne . I have cir- cumnavigated the Lake , and go to Chamouni with the first fair weather ; but really we have had ...
... Madame as brilliant as ever . << I came here by the Netherlands and the Rhine route , and Basle , Berne , Morat , and Lausanne . I have cir- cumnavigated the Lake , and go to Chamouni with the first fair weather ; but really we have had ...
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... Madame de Staël wishes to see the Antiquary , and I am going to take it to her to - morrow . She has made Copet as agreeable as society and talent can make any place on earth . « Yours ever , « N. » From the Journal mentioned in the ...
... Madame de Staël wishes to see the Antiquary , and I am going to take it to her to - morrow . She has made Copet as agreeable as society and talent can make any place on earth . « Yours ever , « N. » From the Journal mentioned in the ...
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... Madame de Staël , in that Memoir , he spoke thus : « Madame de Staël was a good woman at heart and the cleverest at bottom , but spoilt by a wish to be- she knew not what . In her own house she was amiable ; in any other person's , you ...
... Madame de Staël , in that Memoir , he spoke thus : « Madame de Staël was a good woman at heart and the cleverest at bottom , but spoilt by a wish to be- she knew not what . In her own house she was amiable ; in any other person's , you ...
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... Madame de Staël's suggestion , I have no very ac- curate remembrance ; but there can be little doubt that its failure , after the violence he had done his own pride in the overture , was what first infused any mixture of resentment or ...
... Madame de Staël's suggestion , I have no very ac- curate remembrance ; but there can be little doubt that its failure , after the violence he had done his own pride in the overture , was what first infused any mixture of resentment or ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 460 - To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile; so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy.
Página 44 - My sister ! my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine ; Mountains and seas divide us, but I claim No tears, but tenderness to answer mine : Go where I will, to me thou art the same — A loved regret which I would not resign. There yet are two things in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee.
Página 48 - For thee, my own sweet sister, in thy heart I know myself secure, as thou in mine ; We were and are — I am, even as thou art — Beings who ne'er each other can resign ; It is the same, together or apart, From life's commencement to its slow decline We are entwined. — let death come slow or fast, The tie which bound the first endures the last ! LINES ON HEARING THAT LADY BYRON WAS ILL.
Página 269 - I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my deathbed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to your soil.
Página 222 - 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 138 - Of the embrace of angels, with a sex More beautiful than they, which did draw down The erring spirits who can ne'er return.
Página 16 - The music of the cows' bells ( for their wealth, like the patriarchs', is catile) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds shouting to us from crag to crag, and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery, realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence : — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a little too much of the sabre and...
Página 263 - What if thy deep and ample stream should be A mirror of my heart, where she may read The thousand thoughts I now betray to thee, Wild as thy wave, and headlong as thy speed ! What do I say, a mirror of my heart?
Página 47 - The world is all before me; I but ask Of Nature that with which she will comply — It is but in her summer's sun to bask, To mingle with the quiet of her sky, To see her gentle face without a mask, And never gaze on it with apathy.
Página 270 - Venice gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.