Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: With Anecdotes of Some of His ContemporariesHenry Colburn and Company, 1822 - 428 páginas |
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... circumstances , arm him with more than ordinary power to enable him to carry his object into effect , it becomes a duty to lay open his personal history , that it may be seen whe- INTRODUCTION . 7 ther he , who seeks to create.
... circumstances , arm him with more than ordinary power to enable him to carry his object into effect , it becomes a duty to lay open his personal history , that it may be seen whe- INTRODUCTION . 7 ther he , who seeks to create.
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... open the eyes of those who are wilfully blind , and it is still more difficult to make a proud man sensible of his folly . Still something should be done to abate an increasing evil ; and though lawless wit will , in spite of ...
... open the eyes of those who are wilfully blind , and it is still more difficult to make a proud man sensible of his folly . Still something should be done to abate an increasing evil ; and though lawless wit will , in spite of ...
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... open to exposure , and are capable of confutation . But this is a species of the art that takes a narrow range , and is limited to few objects compared with the boundless regions of fable and feeling , lively invention , and meta ...
... open to exposure , and are capable of confutation . But this is a species of the art that takes a narrow range , and is limited to few objects compared with the boundless regions of fable and feeling , lively invention , and meta ...
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... open the practices and holding up the names of the persons of these marauders ; who were known to hold their meetings for the selection of vic- tims under the roof of a British Peer . The able and unreserved manner in which the exposure ...
... open the practices and holding up the names of the persons of these marauders ; who were known to hold their meetings for the selection of vic- tims under the roof of a British Peer . The able and unreserved manner in which the exposure ...
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... open with unsparing severity ; and , with the exception of Zeluco , and the personages that figure most conspicuously in the noble lord's principal poems , it will not be easy to meet with any thing more repulsive either in works of ...
... open with unsparing severity ; and , with the exception of Zeluco , and the personages that figure most conspicuously in the noble lord's principal poems , it will not be easy to meet with any thing more repulsive either in works of ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 288 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 279 - Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom — Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Página 312 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Página 319 - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all.
Página 229 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 185 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, And cried through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Página 301 - She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe : nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I had not; And tenderness — but that I had for her; Humility — and that I never had. Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own — I loved her, and destroy'd her ! Witch.
Página 289 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Página 294 - Yet must I think less wildly:— I have thought Too long and darkly; till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame: And thus, untaught in youth my heart to tame, My springs of life were poisoned.
Página 305 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...