Lord Byron: A Biography with a Critical Essay on His Place in LiteratureJ. Murray, 1872 - 516 páginas |
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... poetry , almost forgotten their own nationality . But not- withstanding the interest thus felt for the creations of his genius , no substantive Life of Byron had , as far as we are aware , appeared in Germany , with the exception of ...
... poetry , almost forgotten their own nationality . But not- withstanding the interest thus felt for the creations of his genius , no substantive Life of Byron had , as far as we are aware , appeared in Germany , with the exception of ...
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... poetry is exposed , and partly from the rise of new poetic schools , the vast influence , once exercised by the works of Byron , had to a certain extent waned among us . But various signs may be discerned which seem to point to a ...
... poetry is exposed , and partly from the rise of new poetic schools , the vast influence , once exercised by the works of Byron , had to a certain extent waned among us . But various signs may be discerned which seem to point to a ...
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... poet was born . He found his only amusement on the lake in front of the Abbey ; on its banks he built those tasteless miniature citadels , which are still standing , and the further to ornament it he had a small vessel conveyed thither ...
... poet was born . He found his only amusement on the lake in front of the Abbey ; on its banks he built those tasteless miniature citadels , which are still standing , and the further to ornament it he had a small vessel conveyed thither ...
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... poet , and on his decease the poet himself , became heir presumptive of the peerage . The mad Lord Byron ' ( he who killed Chaworth in the duel ) , who survived both his son and his grandson , could , however , never bring himself to ...
... poet , and on his decease the poet himself , became heir presumptive of the peerage . The mad Lord Byron ' ( he who killed Chaworth in the duel ) , who survived both his son and his grandson , could , however , never bring himself to ...
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... poet's whole life ; for while Scott's lameness left his heart untouched , Byron's was ever em- bittered from this ... poetry , that we shall have to return to it more fully in the sequel . According to a condition im- posed by will ...
... poet's whole life ; for while Scott's lameness left his heart untouched , Byron's was ever em- bittered from this ... poetry , that we shall have to return to it more fully in the sequel . According to a condition im- posed by will ...
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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.