The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2J. Murray, 1899 |
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... scenes and cities of renown , a song of travel , a rhythmical diorama , was Byron's own handiwork - not an inheritance , but a creation 66 But what of the eponymous hero , the sated and melancholy " Childe , " with his attendant page ...
... scenes and cities of renown , a song of travel , a rhythmical diorama , was Byron's own handiwork - not an inheritance , but a creation 66 But what of the eponymous hero , the sated and melancholy " Childe , " with his attendant page ...
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... scenes which it attempts to describe . It was begun in Albania ; and the parts relative to Spain and Portugal were composed from the author's observations in those countries . Thus much it may be necessary to state for the correctness ...
... scenes which it attempts to describe . It was begun in Albania ; and the parts relative to Spain and Portugal were composed from the author's observations in those countries . Thus much it may be necessary to state for the correctness ...
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... scene would seek the shades below . VII . The Childe departed from his father's hall : It was a vast and venerable pile ; So old , it seeméd only not to fall , Yet strength was pillared in each massy aisle . Monastic dome ! condemned to ...
... scene would seek the shades below . VII . The Childe departed from his father's hall : It was a vast and venerable pile ; So old , it seeméd only not to fall , Yet strength was pillared in each massy aisle . Monastic dome ! condemned to ...
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... scenes- Why , Nature , waste thy wonders on such men ? i . Who hate the very hand that waves the sword To shield them , etc .- [ MS . D. ] To guard them , etc .— [ MS . pencil . ] ii . Mid many things that grieve both nose and ee ...
... scenes- Why , Nature , waste thy wonders on such men ? i . Who hate the very hand that waves the sword To shield them , etc .- [ MS . D. ] To guard them , etc .— [ MS . pencil . ] ii . Mid many things that grieve both nose and ee ...
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... scene , with varied beauty glow . 1 i . ii . views too sweet and vast - [ MS . erased . ] by tottering convent crowned .— [ MS . erased . ] Alcornoque .- [ Note ( pencil ) . ] iii . The murmur that the sparkling torrents keep .— [ MS ...
... scene , with varied beauty glow . 1 i . ii . views too sweet and vast - [ MS . erased . ] by tottering convent crowned .— [ MS . erased . ] Alcornoque .- [ Note ( pencil ) . ] iii . The murmur that the sparkling torrents keep .— [ MS ...
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Albania Ali Pacha ancient Ariosto Athens battle beauty behold beneath Boccaccio breast Cæsar Canto Canto of Childe Childe Harold CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE church Cicero column Compare Dallas dark death deemed Delvinaki earth edit erased fair fame feel Florence foes Fourth Canto French gaze Giaour glory gondoliers Greece Greek hand hath heart Heaven hills Hist Hobhouse honour hope hour inscription Italian Italy Julius Cæsar July king Lady lake land Leave letter to Murray Lord Byron mind mortal mountains never night o'er October once passed Petrarch plain poem poet Poetical Prevesa published rock Roman Rome ruins says scene Second Canto seems Shelley shore shrine sigh song soul Spain spirit Stanza statue Tasso tears temple thee thine things thou thought tomb Tozer Travels in Albania Venetian Venice vide walls waves word
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Página 230 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Página 233 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Página 116 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 232 - And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips — "The foe! They come! they come ! " And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering
Página 261 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 460 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Página 458 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 64 - How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
Página 249 - The castled Crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine ; And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scattered cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strewed a scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
Página 459 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.