Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volumen 1A. and W. Galignani, 1830 - 512 páginas |
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... poet , were decorated . brothers of that family on the field at Edgehill - the celebrity of the name appears to have died away for near a century . It was about the year 1750 , that the shipwreck and sufferings of Mr Byron * ( the ...
... poet , were decorated . brothers of that family on the field at Edgehill - the celebrity of the name appears to have died away for near a century . It was about the year 1750 , that the shipwreck and sufferings of Mr Byron * ( the ...
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... poet . Within a short distance of it , however , all those features of wildness and beauty , which mark the course ... poetic talent . But it may be questioned whether this faculty was ever so produced . That the charm of scenery , which ...
... poet . Within a short distance of it , however , all those features of wildness and beauty , which mark the course ... poetic talent . But it may be questioned whether this faculty was ever so produced . That the charm of scenery , which ...
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... poetry , it was not likely that an expression such as this should fail of being re- corded . Accordingly we find ... poet , and even to waken in his mind a sort of boyish admiration for singularities which he found thus elevated into ...
... poetry , it was not likely that an expression such as this should fail of being re- corded . Accordingly we find ... poet , and even to waken in his mind a sort of boyish admiration for singularities which he found thus elevated into ...
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... poetry was far beyond the usual standard of his age , and in my study he found many books open to him , both to please his taste and to gratify his curiosity ; among others , a set of our poets , from Chaucer to Churchill , which I am ...
... poetry was far beyond the usual standard of his age , and in my study he found many books open to him , both to please his taste and to gratify his curiosity ; among others , a set of our poets , from Chaucer to Churchill , which I am ...
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... poet : - " Of those who were not immediately near me I knew little , unless by their cries . Some struggled hard ... poetry must be content to yield the palm to prose . There is a pathos in the last sentences of the seaman's recital ...
... poet : - " Of those who were not immediately near me I knew little , unless by their cries . Some struggled hard ... poetry must be content to yield the palm to prose . There is a pathos in the last sentences of the seaman's recital ...
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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.