Lord Byron: A Biography with a Critical Essay on His Place in LiteratureJ. Murray, 1872 - 516 páginas |
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... matter of course , to a hoar antiquity . A branch of the original Scandinavian Buruns settled , according to this authority , in Normandy , from whence two members of the family , Erneis and Ralph de Burun , followed the Conqueror to ...
... matter of course , to a hoar antiquity . A branch of the original Scandinavian Buruns settled , according to this authority , in Normandy , from whence two members of the family , Erneis and Ralph de Burun , followed the Conqueror to ...
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... matter of course , the Byrons , although these , as her son so carefully points out , traced their descent uninterruptedly in the male line . There is no account of the manner in which Miss Gordon became acquainted with Captain Byron ...
... matter of course , the Byrons , although these , as her son so carefully points out , traced their descent uninterruptedly in the male line . There is no account of the manner in which Miss Gordon became acquainted with Captain Byron ...
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... matter ) , in order to be just to the spirit of this provision , the name of Gordon was given to the child . The Duke of Gordon , as head of the family , Colonel Duff of Fetteresso ( near Stonehaven , to the south of Aberdeen ) , and ...
... matter ) , in order to be just to the spirit of this provision , the name of Gordon was given to the child . The Duke of Gordon , as head of the family , Colonel Duff of Fetteresso ( near Stonehaven , to the south of Aberdeen ) , and ...
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... matters , that his foot was so far restored that he was able to put on a common boot - ' an event for which he had long anxiously wished , and which he was sure would give her great pleasure.'4 1 Moore's Life , i . 41 . 3 Ibid . i , 55 ...
... matters , that his foot was so far restored that he was able to put on a common boot - ' an event for which he had long anxiously wished , and which he was sure would give her great pleasure.'4 1 Moore's Life , i . 41 . 3 Ibid . i , 55 ...
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... matter more gravely and worthily , he would not have shut up his feelings so defiantly in his own breast ; and in this example we see very plainly how the heartlessness of those to whom he was allied by the ties of nature influenced his ...
... matter more gravely and worthily , he would not have shut up his feelings so defiantly in his own breast ; and in this example we see very plainly how the heartlessness of those to whom he was allied by the ties of nature influenced his ...
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Página 419 - Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Página 272 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Página 381 - Alike in ignorance, his reason such Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still, by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all, Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Página 202 - Hougoumont appears to want little but a better cause, and that undefinable but impressive halo which the lapse of ages throws around a celebrated spot, to vie in interest with any or all of these, except perhaps the last mentioned.
Página 45 - We were on good terms, but his brother was my intimate friend. There were always great hopes of Peel, amongst us all, masters and scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal...
Página 362 - Indisputably, the firm believers in the Gospel have a great advantage over all others, — for this simple reason, that, if true, they will have their reward hereafter ; and if there be no hereafter, they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having had the assistance of an exalted hope, through life, without subsequent disappointment, since (at the worst for them) " out of nothing, nothing can arise,
Página 392 - I say that Maddalo is proud, because I can find no other word to express the concentred and impatient feelings which consume him; but it is on his own hopes and affections only that he seems to trample, for in social life no human being can be more gentle, patient and unassuming than Maddalo. He is cheerful, frank and witty. His more serious conversation is a sort of intoxication; men are held by it as by a spell.
Página 126 - Whatever Sheridan has done or chosen to do has been, par excellence, always the best of its kind. He has written the best comedy (School for Scandal], the best drama...
Página 385 - I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope, whom I tried in this way, — I took Moore's poems and my own and some others, and went over them side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, harmony, effect, and even Imagination, passion, and Invention, between the little Queen Anne's man, and us of the Lower Empire. Depend upon it, it is all Horace...
Página 322 - OF JANUARY, 1788. HE DIED AT MISSOLONGHI, IN WESTERN GREECE, ON THE 19TH OF APRIL, 1824, ENGAGED IN THE GLORIOUS ATTEMPT TO RESTORE THAT COUNTRY TO HER ANCIENT FREEDOM AND RENOWN. HIS SISTER, THE HONOURABLE AUGUSTA MARIA LEIGH, PLACED THIS TABLET TO HIS MEMORY.