The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volumen 5J. Murray, 1835 |
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... recollect- ing my mother's account of the matter , although she was more accurate than I am , being precise upon points of genealogy , like all the aristocratical Scotch . She had a long list of ancestors , like Sir Lucius O'Trigger's ...
... recollect- ing my mother's account of the matter , although she was more accurate than I am , being precise upon points of genealogy , like all the aristocratical Scotch . She had a long list of ancestors , like Sir Lucius O'Trigger's ...
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... recollect , some time after , Madame de Staël said to me in Switzerland , You should not have warred with the world — it will not do it is too strong always for any individual : I myself once tried it in early life , but it will not do ...
... recollect , some time after , Madame de Staël said to me in Switzerland , You should not have warred with the world — it will not do it is too strong always for any individual : I myself once tried it in early life , but it will not do ...
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... recollect that their earliest English poetical pleasures were drawn from the little nightingale ' of Twickenham . ( " The first is from the notes to a Poem of the Friends , ' pages 181 , 182 . " It is only within the last twenty or ...
... recollect that their earliest English poetical pleasures were drawn from the little nightingale ' of Twickenham . ( " The first is from the notes to a Poem of the Friends , ' pages 181 , 182 . " It is only within the last twenty or ...
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... recollect that , if we take to such an enterprise , we must do so in good earnest . Here is a hint , - do you make it a plan . We will modify it into as lite- rary and classical a concern as you please , only let us put out our powers ...
... recollect that , if we take to such an enterprise , we must do so in good earnest . Here is a hint , - do you make it a plan . We will modify it into as lite- rary and classical a concern as you please , only let us put out our powers ...
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... recollect to have met them in the fashion- able world of London ( of which I then formed an item , a fraction , the segment of a circle , the unit of a million , the nothing of something ) in the assemblies of the hour , and at a ...
... recollect to have met them in the fashion- able world of London ( of which I then formed an item , a fraction , the segment of a circle , the unit of a million , the nothing of something ) in the assemblies of the hour , and at a ...
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Página 22 - The morning precious; beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake? 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 67 - Tis a grand poem — and so true! — true as the 10th of Juvenal himself. The lapse of ages changes all things — time — language — the earth — the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been, and always will be, an unlucky rascal.
Página 52 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy...
Página 196 - I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state...
Página 306 - Drummond's publishers have been allowed to rest in peace for seventy years, are you to be singled out for a work of fiction, not of history or argument? There must be something at the bottom of this — some private enemy of your own : it is otherwise incredible.
Página 9 - I recollect, however, that having been much hurt by Romilly's conduct (he, having a general retainer for me, had acted as adviser to the adversary, alleging, on being reminded of his retainer, that he had forgotten it, as his clerk had so many), I observed that some of those who were now eagerly laying...
Página 27 - When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours ; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knock'd on the head for his labours.
Página 354 - ... and regular interment. You can have no idea what an extraordinary effect such a funeral pile has, on a desolate shore, with mountains in the back-ground and the sea before, and the singular appearance the salt and frankincense gave to the flame. All of Shelley was consumed, except his heart, which would not take the flame, and is now preserved in spirits of wine.
Página 109 - Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." ["There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Página 113 - I feel exactly as you do about our ' art," but it comes over me in a kind of rage every now and then, like • • • • and then, if I do n't write to empty my mind, I go mad.