Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volumen 1A. and W. Galignani, 1830 - 512 páginas |
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... Canto II . In the collection of " Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea , " to which Lord Byron so skilfully had recourse for the technical knowledge and facts out of which he has com- posed bis own powerful description , the reader will find ...
... Canto II . In the collection of " Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea , " to which Lord Byron so skilfully had recourse for the technical knowledge and facts out of which he has com- posed bis own powerful description , the reader will find ...
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... Canto IV . I " Should your Harrow engagements allow you to visit town between this and February , I shall be most happy to see you in Albemarle - street . If I am not so fortunate , I shall endeavour to join you for an afternoon at ...
... Canto IV . I " Should your Harrow engagements allow you to visit town between this and February , I shall be most happy to see you in Albemarle - street . If I am not so fortunate , I shall endeavour to join you for an afternoon at ...
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... and symmetry of his model of a form , together with his good humour and athletic , as well as mental , accomplishments . " - Note on Don Juan Canto II . of the few notes and letters , which he has A. D. 1808 . 51 LIFE OF LORD BYRON .
... and symmetry of his model of a form , together with his good humour and athletic , as well as mental , accomplishments . " - Note on Don Juan Canto II . of the few notes and letters , which he has A. D. 1808 . 51 LIFE OF LORD BYRON .
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... Canto of Childe Harold . I can't see any point of resemblance : -he wrote prose ; I verse : he was of the people ; I of the aristocracy : † he was a philoso- pher ; I am none : he published his first work at forty ; I mine at eighteen ...
... Canto of Childe Harold . I can't see any point of resemblance : -he wrote prose ; I verse : he was of the people ; I of the aristocracy : † he was a philoso- pher ; I am none : he published his first work at forty ; I mine at eighteen ...
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... I would select from that proud throng , Partly because they blend me with his line , And partly that I did his sire some wrong . Childe Harold , Canto III . * I shall get my seat on the return of A. D. 1809 . 55 LIFE OF LORD BYRON .
... I would select from that proud throng , Partly because they blend me with his line , And partly that I did his sire some wrong . Childe Harold , Canto III . * I shall get my seat on the return of A. D. 1809 . 55 LIFE OF LORD BYRON .
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Página 277 - With regard to poetry in general ', I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the wrong, one as much as another ; that we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system, or systems, not worth a damn in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free ; and that the present and next generations will finally be of this opinion.
Página 236 - ... neither the music of the Shepherd, the crashing of the Avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the Glacier, the Forest, nor the Cloud, have for one moment lightened the weight upon my heart, nor enabled me to lose my own wretched identity in the majesty, and the power, and the Glory, around, above, and beneath me.
Página 255 - So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a roving By the light of the moon.
Página 365 - ... man, except man himself, who has always been, and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment.
Página 76 - The immediate distance is not above a mile, but the current renders it hazardous ; — so much so that I doubt whether Leander's conjugal affection must not have been a little chilled in his passage to Paradise. I attempted it a week ago, and failed, — owing to the north wind, and the wonderful rapidity of the tide, — though I have been from my childhood a strong swimmer. But, this morning being calmer, I succeeded, and crossed the " broad Hellespont
Página 364 - ... feudal ages — artificial and unnatural. They ought to mind home — and be well fed and clothed — but not mixed in society. Well educated, too, in religion — but to read neither poetry nor politics — nothing but books of piety and cookery. Music — drawing — dancing — also a little gardening and ploughing now and then. I have seen them mending the roads in Epirus with good success. Why not, as well as haymaking and milking?
Página 273 - Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may be won.
Página 290 - That she had a sufficient regard for me in her wild way, I had many reasons to believe. I will mention one. In the autumn, one day, going to the Lido with my Gondoliers, we were overtaken by a heavy Squall, and the Gondola put in peril — hats blown away, boat filling, oar lost, tumbling sea, thunder, rain in torrents, night coming, and wind increasing.
Página 349 - I perceive that in Germany, as well as in ' Italy, there is a great struggle about what they call ' " Classical " and " Romantic," — terms which were not ' subjects of classification in England, at least when I ' left it four or five years ago.
Página 333 - Kiss'd my mouth, trembling in the act all over: Accursed was the book and he who wrote! That day no further leaf we did uncover.