Life of Lord ByronW. Scott, 1890 - 215 páginas |
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... Greek Committee in Eng- land to go ; hesitations and vacillation ; presentiment of death in Greece ; events overruled ; domestic reconciliation and return to England - not for the poet of world - sorrow , and revolutionary Europe , or ...
... Greek Committee in Eng- land to go ; hesitations and vacillation ; presentiment of death in Greece ; events overruled ; domestic reconciliation and return to England - not for the poet of world - sorrow , and revolutionary Europe , or ...
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... Greek factions ; sends soldiers , money , and medical stores ; Trelawny and Brown nego- tiate with the regular Government at Salamis for Byron ; he judges the Greeks fairly ; takes a house at Metaxata ; thence visits Ithaca ; his ...
... Greek factions ; sends soldiers , money , and medical stores ; Trelawny and Brown nego- tiate with the regular Government at Salamis for Byron ; he judges the Greeks fairly ; takes a house at Metaxata ; thence visits Ithaca ; his ...
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... Greek heroes- youthful , resplendent , as skilful with the sword as with the lyre - beloved by a beautiful woman , conqueror alike in sports as in battles ; and yet condemned from the cradle by a cruel destiny to the infernal deities ...
... Greek heroes- youthful , resplendent , as skilful with the sword as with the lyre - beloved by a beautiful woman , conqueror alike in sports as in battles ; and yet condemned from the cradle by a cruel destiny to the infernal deities ...
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... Greek , to relish or to reason upon . . . In some parts of the Continent young persons are taught from common authors , and do not read the best classics till their maturity . " " My school friendships , " he says , in one of his ...
... Greek , to relish or to reason upon . . . In some parts of the Continent young persons are taught from common authors , and do not read the best classics till their maturity . " " My school friendships , " he says , in one of his ...
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... Greeks to assault Lepanto . He cared as much for his fourteen - feet dives with Matthews into the Cam , to pick up coins and trinkets ; for his amorous adventures with the ladies in England , and darker orgies at Venice ; his sea ...
... Greeks to assault Lepanto . He cared as much for his fourteen - feet dives with Matthews into the Cam , to pick up coins and trinkets ; for his amorous adventures with the ladies in England , and darker orgies at Venice ; his sea ...
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Página 80 - I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula, I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey; but never under the most despotic of infidel governments did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country.
Página xxv - GHOSTS," "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE," and "THE WILD DUCK." With an Introductory Note. VOL. III. "LADY INGER OF OSTRAT," "THE VIKINGS AT HELGELAND,
Página 159 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Página xxvi - LIFE OF DICKENS. By Frank T. Marzials. "Notwithstanding the mass of matter that has been printed relating to Dickens and his works ... we should, until we came across this volume, have been at a loss to recommend any popular life of England's most popular novelist as being really satisfactory. The difficulty is removed by Mr. Marzials's little book."— Athenaeum.
Página 156 - The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist ; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
Página 141 - 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 upon itself, for want of objects which it can consider worthy of exertion.
Página 13 - tis but just The many-headed beast should know." Ah shameless ! for he did but sing A song that pleased us from its worth ; No public life was his on earth, No blazon'd statesman he, nor king.
Página xxvi - LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE. By A. Birrell. "Those who know much of Charlotte Bronte will learn more, and those who know nothing about her will find all that is best worth learning in Mr. Birrell's pleasant book.
Página xxvii - LIFE OF MILL. By WL Courtney. " A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir." — Glasgow Herald. LIFE OF SCHILLER. By Henry W. Nevinson. " Presents the poet's life in a neatly rounded picture."— Scotsman.
Página 27 - Left by his sire, too young such loss to know, Lord of himself; — that heritage of woe, That fearful empire which the human breast But holds to rob the heart within of rest!— VOL.