The Works of Lord Byron, Volumen 11J. Murray, 1900 |
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... hundred guineas for them . The answer to this is short : I never wrote such poems , never received the sum he mentions , nor any other in the same quarter , nor ( as far as moral or mortal certainty can be sure ) ever had , directly or ...
... hundred guineas for them . The answer to this is short : I never wrote such poems , never received the sum he mentions , nor any other in the same quarter , nor ( as far as moral or mortal certainty can be sure ) ever had , directly or ...
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... hundred Drury Lane offerings , during my coadjutor- ship with the sub - and - super Committee . When does your poem of poems come out ? I hear that the Edinburgh Review has cut up Coleridge's Chris- tabel , and declared against me for ...
... hundred Drury Lane offerings , during my coadjutor- ship with the sub - and - super Committee . When does your poem of poems come out ? I hear that the Edinburgh Review has cut up Coleridge's Chris- tabel , and declared against me for ...
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... hundred guineas for them . He lies - I never wrote such stuff , never saw the poems , nor the publisher of them , in my life , nor had any communication , directly or indirectly , with the fellow . Pray say as much for me , if need be ...
... hundred guineas for them . He lies - I never wrote such stuff , never saw the poems , nor the publisher of them , in my life , nor had any communication , directly or indirectly , with the fellow . Pray say as much for me , if need be ...
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... hundred and fifty married ladies 1 1. Byron alludes to Livy , bk . viii . c . 18. A number of leading citizens were attacked and died by a mysterious disease . In each case the symptoms were identical . At last a girl offered to reveal ...
... hundred and fifty married ladies 1 1. Byron alludes to Livy , bk . viii . c . 18. A number of leading citizens were attacked and died by a mysterious disease . In each case the symptoms were identical . At last a girl offered to reveal ...
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... hundred and fifty husbands in the good old times . The bachelors of Rome believed this extra- ordinary mortality to be merely the common effect of matrimony or a pestilence ; but the surviving Benedicts , being all seized with the ...
... hundred and fifty husbands in the good old times . The bachelors of Rome believed this extra- ordinary mortality to be merely the common effect of matrimony or a pestilence ; but the surviving Benedicts , being all seized with the ...
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Página 492 - But ye were dead 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 149 - Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on : Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may be won. Were't the last drop in the well, As I gasped upon the brink, Ere my fainting spirit fell, Tis to thee that I would drink.
Página 490 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 146 - Set you down this; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Página 142 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Página 315 - 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. I would not even feed your worms, if I could help it.
Página 493 - O may some spark of your celestial fire, The last, the meanest of your sons inspire, (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes,) To teach vain wits a science little known, T' admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Página 373 - Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters ; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail. Thus to their hopeless eyes...
Página 148 - s above me, Here's a heait for every fate. " Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may be won.
Página 285 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.