Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Հատոր 16 |
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... before her in a sheet , Which she must still pursue howe'er afraid : ' Twas white and indistinct , nor stopp'd to meet Her glance nor grasp , for still she gazed and grasp'd , And ran , but it escaped her as she clasp'd . XXXIII .
... before her in a sheet , Which she must still pursue howe'er afraid : ' Twas white and indistinct , nor stopp'd to meet Her glance nor grasp , for still she gazed and grasp'd , And ran , but it escaped her as she clasp'd . XXXIII .
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Then look'd close at the flint , as if to see ' Twas fresh — for he had lately used the lockAnd next proceeded quietly to cock . XLI . It has a strange quick jar upon the ear , That cocking of a pistol , when you know A moment more will ...
Then look'd close at the flint , as if to see ' Twas fresh — for he had lately used the lockAnd next proceeded quietly to cock . XLI . It has a strange quick jar upon the ear , That cocking of a pistol , when you know A moment more will ...
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Twelve negresses from Nubia brought a price Which the West Indian market scarce would bring ; Though Wilberforce , at last , has made it twice What ' twas ere Abolition ; and the thing Need not seem very wonderful , for vice Is always ...
Twelve negresses from Nubia brought a price Which the West Indian market scarce would bring ; Though Wilberforce , at last , has made it twice What ' twas ere Abolition ; and the thing Need not seem very wonderful , for vice Is always ...
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Twas a raw day of Autumn's bleak beginning , When nights are equal , but not so the days ; The Parcæ then cut short the further spinning Of seamen's fates , and the loud tempests raise ( 3 ) The waters , and repentance for past sinning ...
Twas a raw day of Autumn's bleak beginning , When nights are equal , but not so the days ; The Parcæ then cut short the further spinning Of seamen's fates , and the loud tempests raise ( 3 ) The waters , and repentance for past sinning ...
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The other evening ( ' t was on Friday last ) - This is a fact , and no poetic fable - Just as my great coat was about me cast , My hat and gloves still lying on the table , I heard a shot — ' twas eight o'clock scarce pastAnd , running ...
The other evening ( ' t was on Friday last ) - This is a fact , and no poetic fable - Just as my great coat was about me cast , My hat and gloves still lying on the table , I heard a shot — ' twas eight o'clock scarce pastAnd , running ...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
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Էջ 137 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...
Էջ 6 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep...
Էջ 16 - We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps ; and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason ; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Էջ 124 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Էջ 69 - Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.
Էջ 227 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Էջ 135 - We left our hero and third heroine in A kind of state more awkward than uncommon, For gentlemen must sometimes risk their skin For that sad tempter, a forbidden woman : Sultans too much abhor this sort of sin, And don't agree at all with the wise Roman, Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
Էջ 136 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Էջ 309 - Auld Lang Syne" brings Scotland, one and all, Scotch plaids, Scotch snoods, the blue hills, and clear streams, The Dee, the Don, Balgounie's brig's black wall, All my boy feelings, all my gentler dreams Of what I then dreamt, clothed in their own pall, Like Banquo's offspring: — floating past me seems My childhood, in this childishness of mine: I care not — 'tis a glimpse of "Auld Lang Syne.
Էջ 7 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.