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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... prevent them from doing mischief . Since then , the right honourable poet has rendered you , or himself , a marvellous piece of kindness in stating that his last performance was submitted to your examination previous to its publication .
... prevent them from doing mischief . Since then , the right honourable poet has rendered you , or himself , a marvellous piece of kindness in stating that his last performance was submitted to your examination previous to its publication .
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... performance as " Cain ; " since the circum- stance seems to account for the little notice that has been taken in the Quarterly Review of the literary delinquencies of the noble lord . But as the fact has been divulged , it be- comes ...
... performance as " Cain ; " since the circum- stance seems to account for the little notice that has been taken in the Quarterly Review of the literary delinquencies of the noble lord . But as the fact has been divulged , it be- comes ...
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... performances directly and avowedly tend to produce a revolution in the feelings and principles of mankind . Where such is the aim of a writer , whose singularly versatile talents , elevated station , and peculiar circumstances , arm him ...
... performances directly and avowedly tend to produce a revolution in the feelings and principles of mankind . Where such is the aim of a writer , whose singularly versatile talents , elevated station , and peculiar circumstances , arm him ...
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... with some lines from a performance conceived in the genuine strain of classic taste and genuine poesy : " I will not from remembrance blot the lays Which Harrow echo'd in my younger days— INVOCATION TO HARROW . Those days , in which your.
... with some lines from a performance conceived in the genuine strain of classic taste and genuine poesy : " I will not from remembrance blot the lays Which Harrow echo'd in my younger days— INVOCATION TO HARROW . Those days , in which your.
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... performance , thought proper to abuse the noble earl , in the bitterest gall and wornwood of satire ; as one " Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse . " In justification of this marvellous inconsistency the author offers the ...
... performance , thought proper to abuse the noble earl , in the bitterest gall and wornwood of satire ; as one " Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse . " In justification of this marvellous inconsistency the author offers the ...
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admiration Albania Ali Pacha ANECDOTE appears Athens author of Childe Bards beautiful Bonnivard called character Childe Harold Chillon circumstances Clarens classic connexion Conrad Corsair critic Dæmon daughter death Don Juan dreadful EDINBURGH REVIEW effect endeavoured English excite favour favourite feelings friends genius Giaour Greeks Harrow heart Hellespont honour hour human infidelity judgment lady Lake of Geneva land language Lara literary lived Lord Byron lordship Manfred manner Mazeppa mind misanthropy moral mountains nature never Newstead Newstead Abbey noble author noble lord noble poet o'er object observes opinion Pacha Parisina passed passions performance person piece poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise racter reader religion remarkable satire says scene sensibility sentiment shore SIEGE OF CORINTH sketches spirit stanzas story sublime tale talents thee thing thou thought tion travels truth Turks verse virtue Voltaire whole writer young youth
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...