The Life of Lord ByronJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 334 páginas |
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... living head , Whatever flows is never dull . I liv'd , I lov'd , I quaff'd like thee ; I died , but earth my bones resign : Fill up - thou canst not injure me , The worm hath fouler lips than thine . Better to hold the sparkling grape ...
... living head , Whatever flows is never dull . I liv'd , I lov'd , I quaff'd like thee ; I died , but earth my bones resign : Fill up - thou canst not injure me , The worm hath fouler lips than thine . Better to hold the sparkling grape ...
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... living valley seems to stir . Flocks play , trees wave , streams flow , the mountain fir Nodding above ; behold black Acheron ! Once consecrated to the sepulchre . Pluto ! if this be hell I look upon , Close shamed Elysium's gates ; my ...
... living valley seems to stir . Flocks play , trees wave , streams flow , the mountain fir Nodding above ; behold black Acheron ! Once consecrated to the sepulchre . Pluto ! if this be hell I look upon , Close shamed Elysium's gates ; my ...
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... living ; but the prediction which it implies was soon after verified , and he closed his stern and energetic life with a catastrophe worthy of its guilt and bravery . He voluntarily perished by firing a powder - magazine , when ...
... living ; but the prediction which it implies was soon after verified , and he closed his stern and energetic life with a catastrophe worthy of its guilt and bravery . He voluntarily perished by firing a powder - magazine , when ...
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... living among the mountains adjacent to the coast of the Ionian Sea . Besides this , the woods and hills of every part of his dominions were in a great degree possessed by formidable bands of rob- bers , who , recruited and protected by ...
... living among the mountains adjacent to the coast of the Ionian Sea . Besides this , the woods and hills of every part of his dominions were in a great degree possessed by formidable bands of rob- bers , who , recruited and protected by ...
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... living . " The very mountains seemed Caledonian with a kinder climate . The kilt , though white , the spare active form , their dialect , Celtic in its sound , and their hardy habits , all carried me back to Mor- ven . No nation are so ...
... living . " The very mountains seemed Caledonian with a kinder climate . The kilt , though white , the spare active form , their dialect , Celtic in its sound , and their hardy habits , all carried me back to Mor- ven . No nation are so ...
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Página 327 - 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 in Newfoundland, May, 1803, and died at Newstead, Nov.
Página 122 - Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb ; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay...
Página 195 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles,— nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Página 208 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Página 121 - Salamis ! Their azure arches, through the long expanse, More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints along their summits driven Mark his gay course, and own the hues of Heaven ; Till darkly shaded from the land, and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Página 64 - My joy was in the Wilderness, to breathe The difficult air of the iced mountain's top, Where the birds dare not build, nor insect's wing Flit o'er the herbless granite...
Página 172 - 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 48 - AH ! gentle, fleeting, wav'ring sprite, Friend and associate of this clay ! To what unknown region borne, Wilt thou now wing thy distant flight ? No more with wonted humour gay, But pallid, cheerless, and forlorn.
Página 187 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
Página 190 - It was the night — and Lara's glassy stream The stars are studding, each with imaged beam; So calm, the waters scarcely seem to stray, And yet they glide like happiness away...