Lord Byron: A Biography with a Critical Essay on His Place in LiteratureJ. Murray, 1872 - 516 страници |
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... manner in which his knowledge and labours are regarded in Ger- many is evinced by the fact , that he has been appointed the editor of the Year - book of the German Shakespeare- Society , ' - a publication devoted to the study of our ...
... manner in which his knowledge and labours are regarded in Ger- many is evinced by the fact , that he has been appointed the editor of the Year - book of the German Shakespeare- Society , ' - a publication devoted to the study of our ...
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... manner in which Miss Gordon became acquainted with Captain Byron . A creature of mere impulse , she was 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 ...
... manner in which Miss Gordon became acquainted with Captain Byron . A creature of mere impulse , she was 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 ...
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... manner contrary to his duty . So far from feeling any remorse at having killed Mr. Chaworth , who was a spadassin and celebrated for his quarrelsome disposition , he always kept the sword which he used on that occasion in his bed ...
... manner contrary to his duty . So far from feeling any remorse at having killed Mr. Chaworth , who was a spadassin and celebrated for his quarrelsome disposition , he always kept the sword which he used on that occasion in his bed ...
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... manners and good - natured painstaking he much praises , and with whom , according to his own statement , he made astonishing progress.3 His next master was a Mr. Paterson , ' a very serious , saturnine , but kind young man , ' a rigid ...
... manners and good - natured painstaking he much praises , and with whom , according to his own statement , he made astonishing progress.3 His next master was a Mr. Paterson , ' a very serious , saturnine , but kind young man , ' a rigid ...
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... manner he was introduced into the realms of poetry ; what poets first opened to him the gates of Parnassus , and ... Manners , Foreign and Domestic . In two volumes , Lond . 1789. Dr. John Moore , the author of this romance , who was ...
... manner he was introduced into the realms of poetry ; what poets first opened to him the gates of Parnassus , and ... Manners , Foreign and Domestic . In two volumes , Lond . 1789. Dr. John Moore , the author of this romance , who was ...
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Страница 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.
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Страница 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...
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Страница 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...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.