The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals and His Life, Volumen 4John Murray, 1847 |
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... whole at dif- ferent times . The two first Acts are the best ; the third so so ; but I was blown with the first and second heats . You must call it a Poem , ' for it is no Drama , and I do not choose to have it called by so * * a name ...
... whole at dif- ferent times . The two first Acts are the best ; the third so so ; but I was blown with the first and second heats . You must call it a Poem , ' for it is no Drama , and I do not choose to have it called by so * * a name ...
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... whole ) begin only at the 17th page ; but as I had corrected and sent back the first Act , it does not signify . " The third Act is certainly d - d bad , and , like the Archbishop of Grenada's homily ( which savoured of the palsy ) ...
... whole ) begin only at the 17th page ; but as I had corrected and sent back the first Act , it does not signify . " The third Act is certainly d - d bad , and , like the Archbishop of Grenada's homily ( which savoured of the palsy ) ...
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... whole space by which he before fell short of perfection , all these circumstances , connected with the production of this grand poem , lay open to us features , both of his disposition and genius , in the highest degree interesting ...
... whole space by which he before fell short of perfection , all these circumstances , connected with the production of this grand poem , lay open to us features , both of his disposition and genius , in the highest degree interesting ...
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... whole , ancient and modern , it beats Greece , Constantinople , every thing at least that I have ever seen . But I can't describe , because my first impressions are always strong and confused , and my memory selects and reduces them to ...
... whole , ancient and modern , it beats Greece , Constantinople , every thing at least that I have ever seen . But I can't describe , because my first impressions are always strong and confused , and my memory selects and reduces them to ...
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... whole dram . pers . ( for they are all as mad as Manuel , who surely must have had more interest with a corrupt bench than a distant relation and heir presumptive , somewhat suspect of homicide , ) I do not wonder at its failure . As a ...
... whole dram . pers . ( for they are all as mad as Manuel , who surely must have had more interest with a corrupt bench than a distant relation and heir presumptive , somewhat suspect of homicide , ) I do not wonder at its failure . As a ...
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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...