The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals and His Life, Volumen 4John Murray, 1847 |
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... Hobhouse quarrels , too , with the Quar- terly and ( except the last ) I am the innocent Istmhus ( damn the word ! I can't spell it , though I have crossed that of Corinth a dozen times ) of these enmities . · " I will tell you ...
... Hobhouse quarrels , too , with the Quar- terly and ( except the last ) I am the innocent Istmhus ( damn the word ! I can't spell it , though I have crossed that of Corinth a dozen times ) of these enmities . · " I will tell you ...
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... Hobhouse just come in , and my horses at the door , so that I must mount and take the field in the Campus Martius , which , by the way , is all built over by modern Rome . " Yours very and ever , & c . " P. S. Hobhouse presents his ...
... Hobhouse just come in , and my horses at the door , so that I must mount and take the field in the Campus Martius , which , by the way , is all built over by modern Rome . " Yours very and ever , & c . " P. S. Hobhouse presents his ...
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... Hobhouse presents his remembrances , and is eager , with all the world , for your new poem . " LETTER 280. TO MR . MURRAY . " Venice , May 30. 1817 . " I returned from Rome two days ago , and have received your letter ; but no sign nor ...
... Hobhouse presents his remembrances , and is eager , with all the world , for your new poem . " LETTER 280. TO MR . MURRAY . " Venice , May 30. 1817 . " I returned from Rome two days ago , and have received your letter ; but no sign nor ...
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... Hobhouse , which is reckoned very good . He is their best after Canova , and by some preferred to him . “ I have had a letter from Mr. Hodgson . He is very happy , has got a living , but not a child : if he VOL . IV . D had stuck to a ...
... Hobhouse , which is reckoned very good . He is their best after Canova , and by some preferred to him . “ I have had a letter from Mr. Hodgson . He is very happy , has got a living , but not a child : if he VOL . IV . D had stuck to a ...
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... Hobhouse are here : the former in the same house , the latter a few hundred yards distant . 66 ― You say nothing of Manfred , from which its failure may be inferred ; but I think it odd you should not say so at once . I know nothing ...
... Hobhouse are here : the former in the same house , the latter a few hundred yards distant . 66 ― You say nothing of Manfred , from which its failure may be inferred ; but I think it odd you should not say so at once . I know nothing ...
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Página 35 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy!
Página 16 - Thou material God ! And representative of the Unknown — Who chose thee for his shadow ! Thou chief star ! Centre of many stars ! which mak'st our earth Endurable, and temperest the hues And hearts of all who walk within thy rays...
Página 247 - 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 198 - 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 Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her...
Página 103 - ... direct his energies to such an end, of becoming the redeemer of his degraded country. But it is his weakness to be proud. He derives, from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surround him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life. His passions and his powers are incomparably greater than those of other men; and, instead of the latter having been employed in curbing the former, they have mutually lent each other strength. His ambition preys...
Página 16 - Glorious Orb! the idol Of early nature, and the vigorous race Of undiseased mankind, the giant sons 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 187 - But you will recognise the handwriting of him who passionately loved you, and you will divine that, over a book which was yours, he could only think of love. In that word, beautiful in all languages, but most so in yours — Amor mio — is comprised my existence here and hereafter.
Página 12 - Kalon," found, And seated in my soul. It will not last, But it is well to have known it, though but once: It hath enlarged my thoughts with a new sense...
Página 56 - With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the wrong, one as much as another; that we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system, or systems, not worth a damn in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free; and that the present and next generations will finally be of this opinion.
Página 56 - I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope whom I tried in this way...