The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the Right Hon. George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron: Including ... Anecdotes, and Memoirs of the Lives of the Most Eminent and Eccentric, Public and Noble Characters and Courtiers of the ... Age and Court of His Majesty King George the Fourth. In the Course of the Biography is Also Separately Given, Copious Recollections of the Lately Destroyed Ms. Originally Intended for Posthumous Publication, and Entitled: Memoirs of My Own Life and Times, Volume 1M. Iley, 1825 - 431 páginas |
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... expressed , that you were a genius , almost an universal one — an orator , a wit , a poet , and a statesman ; " and that , “ if ever man saved his country , CANNING can ; " will sufficiently explain why this Biography of one of the ...
... expressed , that you were a genius , almost an universal one — an orator , a wit , a poet , and a statesman ; " and that , “ if ever man saved his country , CANNING can ; " will sufficiently explain why this Biography of one of the ...
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... expression that certainly conveyed no imputation on Lord Byron , and im- plied no more than this , that by fighting with a dim light he had given up the advantage of his own superiority in swordmanship , and had been FAMILY OF LORD ...
... expression that certainly conveyed no imputation on Lord Byron , and im- plied no more than this , that by fighting with a dim light he had given up the advantage of his own superiority in swordmanship , and had been FAMILY OF LORD ...
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... expressed a satisfaction that he was in his present situation , rather than in that of having the life of any man to answer for . Mr. Partington , when he had finished the busi- ness he was sent for , and the will was properly executed ...
... expressed a satisfaction that he was in his present situation , rather than in that of having the life of any man to answer for . Mr. Partington , when he had finished the busi- ness he was sent for , and the will was properly executed ...
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... expressed his deep and unfeigned sorrow for the event , and reposed him- self with the utmost confidence on their lordships ' justice and humanity , and would with cheerfulness acquiesce in the sentence of the noblest and most equitable ...
... expressed his deep and unfeigned sorrow for the event , and reposed him- self with the utmost confidence on their lordships ' justice and humanity , and would with cheerfulness acquiesce in the sentence of the noblest and most equitable ...
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... expression of the scene . " An ancient gothic green - house , with an antique roof , now opens into the garden , which was once the burying - ground of the church , and in which a large circular vault has lately been dug , with a ...
... expression of the scene . " An ancient gothic green - house , with an antique roof , now opens into the garden , which was once the burying - ground of the church , and in which a large circular vault has lately been dug , with a ...
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The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the Right Hon. George ..., Volume 1 Visualização integral - 1825 |
The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the Right Hon. George ..., Volume 1 Visualização integral - 1825 |
The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the Right Hon. George ..., Volume 1 Visualização integral - 1825 |
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Abydos Albania Ali Pacha amongst ancient appears Athens bard boat Bride of Abydos called canto Captain cause character Chaworth Childe Harold Constantinople death Edinburgh Reviewers England English FAMILY OF LORD Farewell feelings female friends gave GENEALOGICAL SKETCH genius Giaour gondoliers Greece Greek hand Harrow school heard heart Hellespont Hobhouse honour hope human INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS island Jack Masters Lady Byron lake land Lara leave letter live Lord Byron Lordship Manfred manner Mardyn melancholy Memoirs ment mind Muses Mytilene never Newstead Abbey night noble o'er occasion once opinion Pacha parties passed passion person Petrarch poem poet poetical poetry present residence ruins sailed satire scene ship soon soul spirit stanzas Tenedos theatre thee thine thing thou thought tion took traveller Turks uncle Toby Venetian Venice whole young youth
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Página 83 - To live within himself; she was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all: upon a tone, A touch of hers, his blood would ebb and flow, And his cheek change tempestuously— his heart Unknowing of its cause of agony.
Página 60 - Near this spot Are deposited the Remains Of one Who Possessed Beauty Without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man Without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning flattery If inscribed over Human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of "Boatswain," a Dog Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey Nov. 18, 1808.
Página 264 - Should her lineaments resemble Those thou never more may'st see, Then thy heart will softly tremble With a pulse yet true to me. All my faults perchance thou knowest, All my madness none can know ; All my hopes, where'er thou goest, Wither, yet with thee they go. Every feeling hath been shaken ; Pride, which not a world could bow. Bows to thee — by thee forsaken, Even my soul forsakes me now...
Página 169 - What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Página 355 - As eager to anticipate their grave; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell. And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Página 264 - Pride — which not a world could bow — Bows to thee — by thee forsaken, Even my soul forsakes me now. But 'tis done — all words are idle — Words from me are vainer still ; But the thoughts we cannot bridle Force their way without the will. Fare thee well ! — thus disunited — Torn from every nearer tie — Seared in heart — and lone — and blighted — More than this, I scarce can die. A SKETCH FROM PRIVATE LIFE. "Honest — Honest lago ! If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee."...
Página 304 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Página 82 - Not by the sport of nature, but of man : These two, a maiden and a youth, were there Gazing — the one on all that was beneath Fair as herself — but the boy gazed on her ; And both were young, and one was beautiful : And both were young — yet not alike in youth. As the sweet moon on the horizon's verge, The maid was on the eve of womanhood ; The boy had fewer summers, but his heart Had far outgrown his years, and to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him...
Página 61 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...
Página 312 - Ye toppling crags of ice! Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me!