Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volumen 15John Murray, 1833 |
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... dying at six - and - thirty , bequeathed a collection of works such as Byron's to the world . Secondly , we hold it impossible that , laying the extent of his intellectual labours out of the question , and looking only to the nature of ...
... dying at six - and - thirty , bequeathed a collection of works such as Byron's to the world . Secondly , we hold it impossible that , laying the extent of his intellectual labours out of the question , and looking only to the nature of ...
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... died . We consider it as one of the finest and most touching effusions of his noble genius . We think he who reads it , and can ever after bring himself to regard even the worst transgressions that have been charged against Lord Byron ...
... died . We consider it as one of the finest and most touching effusions of his noble genius . We think he who reads it , and can ever after bring himself to regard even the worst transgressions that have been charged against Lord Byron ...
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... dying day . I would rather see all I have ever written lining the same trunk in which I actu- ally read the eleventh book of a modern epic poem ( 1 ) at Malta , in 1811 , ( I opened it to take out a change after the paroxysm of a ...
... dying day . I would rather see all I have ever written lining the same trunk in which I actu- ally read the eleventh book of a modern epic poem ( 1 ) at Malta , in 1811 , ( I opened it to take out a change after the paroxysm of a ...
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... died in 1803. ] ( 2 ) [ Charles Hoyle , of Trinity College , Cambridge , author of " Exodus , " an epic in thirteen books . ] ( 3 ) [ Peter Bell first saw the light in 1798. During this long interval , pains have been taken at different ...
... died in 1803. ] ( 2 ) [ Charles Hoyle , of Trinity College , Cambridge , author of " Exodus , " an epic in thirteen books . ] ( 3 ) [ Peter Bell first saw the light in 1798. During this long interval , pains have been taken at different ...
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... died at Rome about a year after this was written , of a decline produced by his having burst a blood - vessel on reading the article on his Endymion ' in the Quarterly Review . I have read the article before and since ; and although it ...
... died at Rome about a year after this was written , of a decline produced by his having burst a blood - vessel on reading the article on his Endymion ' in the Quarterly Review . I have read the article before and since ; and although it ...
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Página 225 - And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Página 90 - 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 321 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations; - all were his! He counted them at break of day And when the sun set where were they?
Página 325 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Página 320 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Página 90 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Página 324 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Página 324 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Página 93 - 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 12 - No more — no more — Oh ! never more on me The freshness of the heart can fall like dew, Which out of all the lovely things we see Extracts emotions beautiful and new, Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee : Think'st thou the honey with those objects grew ? • Alas!