The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Том 5J. Murray, 1835 |
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... play of fancy which is scattered over it , and place by its side an equal number of verses , from any two existing poets , of the same power and the same variety where will you find them ? - " I merely mention one instance of many in ...
... play of fancy which is scattered over it , and place by its side an equal number of verses , from any two existing poets , of the same power and the same variety where will you find them ? - " I merely mention one instance of many in ...
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... played in the Harrow match against the Etonians in 1805 , gaining more notches ( as one of our chosen eleven ) than any , except Lord Ipswich and Brook- man , on our side . " LETTER 400 , TO MR . MURRAY . " Ravenna , 9bre 23 ° , 1820 ...
... played in the Harrow match against the Etonians in 1805 , gaining more notches ( as one of our chosen eleven ) than any , except Lord Ipswich and Brook- man , on our side . " LETTER 400 , TO MR . MURRAY . " Ravenna , 9bre 23 ° , 1820 ...
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... playing on the piano - forte — talked till ten , when the Count , her father , and the no less Count , her brother , came in from the theatre . Play , they said , Alfieri's Filippo - well received . " Two days ago the King of Naples ...
... playing on the piano - forte — talked till ten , when the Count , her father , and the no less Count , her brother , came in from the theatre . Play , they said , Alfieri's Filippo - well received . " Two days ago the King of Naples ...
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... , neither of which is now a very easy matter at least , for a player to produce in me . - " Thought of the state of women under the ancient Greeks - convenient enough . Present state a rem- nant 1821 . 59 LIFE OF LORD BYRON .
... , neither of which is now a very easy matter at least , for a player to produce in me . - " Thought of the state of women under the ancient Greeks - convenient enough . Present state a rem- nant 1821 . 59 LIFE OF LORD BYRON .
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... played with my mastiff . gave him his supper . Made another reading to the epigram , but the turn the same . To - night at the theatre , there being a prince on his throne in the last scene of the comedy , — the audience laughed , and ...
... played with my mastiff . gave him his supper . Made another reading to the epigram , but the turn the same . To - night at the theatre , there being a prince on his throne in the last scene of the comedy , — the audience laughed , and ...
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Страница 22 - The morning precious; beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit. Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit. Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy.
Страница 67 - Tis a grand poem — and so true! — true as the 10th of Juvenal himself. The lapse of ages changes all things — time — language — the earth — the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been, and always will be, an unlucky rascal.
Страница 52 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy...
Страница 196 - I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state...
Страница 306 - Drummond's publishers have been allowed to rest in peace for seventy years, are you to be singled out for a work of fiction, not of history or argument? There must be something at the bottom of this — some private enemy of your own : it is otherwise incredible.
Страница 9 - I recollect, however, that having been much hurt by Romilly's conduct (he, having a general retainer for me, had acted as adviser to the adversary, alleging, on being reminded of his retainer, that he had forgotten it, as his clerk had so many), I observed that some of those who were now eagerly laying...
Страница 27 - When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours ; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knock'd on the head for his labours.
Страница 354 - ... and regular interment. You can have no idea what an extraordinary effect such a funeral pile has, on a desolate shore, with mountains in the back-ground and the sea before, and the singular appearance the salt and frankincense gave to the flame. All of Shelley was consumed, except his heart, which would not take the flame, and is now preserved in spirits of wine.
Страница 109 - Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." ["There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Страница 113 - I feel exactly as you do about our ' art," but it comes over me in a kind of rage every now and then, like • • • • and then, if I do n't write to empty my mind, I go mad.