Lord Byron: A Biography with a Critical Essay on His Place in LiteratureJ. Murray, 1872 - 516 páginas |
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... probably be regarded as the most important and novel of the volume . Great care has evidently been bestowed on the composition of the former ; but the translator cannot repress the expression of his conviction , that Professor Elze's ...
... probably be regarded as the most important and novel of the volume . Great care has evidently been bestowed on the composition of the former ; but the translator cannot repress the expression of his conviction , that Professor Elze's ...
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... Probably , however , this tradition owed its origin to an old wood - carving at Newstead representing a Saracen between a Christian knight and a Western maiden . Not to mention that Newstead came into the possession of the family only ...
... Probably , however , this tradition owed its origin to an old wood - carving at Newstead representing a Saracen between a Christian knight and a Western maiden . Not to mention that Newstead came into the possession of the family only ...
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... probably , both on father's and mother's side . Her family also was not without its dark shadow . Her father , a respected , sensible , and amiable man , but subject to fits of despondency , was found dead in the Avon at Bath , having ...
... probably , both on father's and mother's side . Her family also was not without its dark shadow . Her father , a respected , sensible , and amiable man , but subject to fits of despondency , was found dead in the Avon at Bath , having ...
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... probably won by the manly beauty of his person and espe- cially by his fine eyes . To beauty she herself had no pre- tensions ; she was short and corpulent , and was thoroughly Scottish in her whole nature . A strange anecdote is told ...
... probably won by the manly beauty of his person and espe- cially by his fine eyes . To beauty she herself had no pre- tensions ; she was short and corpulent , and was thoroughly Scottish in her whole nature . A strange anecdote is told ...
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... probably by representatives , if the baptism did not take place in Scotland . The circumstances of the family were already so shattered , that Mrs. Byron soon afterwards went alone with her child to Scotland , where she was at first ...
... probably by representatives , if the baptism did not take place in Scotland . The circumstances of the family were already so shattered , that Mrs. Byron soon afterwards went alone with her child to Scotland , where she was at first ...
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Lord Byron: A Biography with a Critical Essay on His Place in Literature Karl Elze Vista completa - 1872 |
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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.