Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Հատոր 16 |
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Afric is all the sun's , and as her earth Her human clay is kindled ; full of power For good or evil , burning from its birth , The Moorish blood partakes the planet's hour , And like the soil beneath it will bring forth : Beauty and ...
Afric is all the sun's , and as her earth Her human clay is kindled ; full of power For good or evil , burning from its birth , The Moorish blood partakes the planet's hour , And like the soil beneath it will bring forth : Beauty and ...
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“ The sublime mark of a great soul shines forth , in all its beauty , through those affecting expressions of pain and anguish that appear in the countenance of the famous Laocoon , and diffuse their horrors through his convulsed members ...
“ The sublime mark of a great soul shines forth , in all its beauty , through those affecting expressions of pain and anguish that appear in the countenance of the famous Laocoon , and diffuse their horrors through his convulsed members ...
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His figure is a class : it characterises every beauty of virility verging on age ; the prince , the priest , the father are visible , but , absorbed in the man , serve only to dignify the victim of one great expression ; though poised ...
His figure is a class : it characterises every beauty of virility verging on age ; the prince , the priest , the father are visible , but , absorbed in the man , serve only to dignify the victim of one great expression ; though poised ...
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Over this charming creature the poet has thrown a beauty and a fascination , which were never , we think , surpassed . In this , as in the former cantos , he pours out a singular mixture of pathos , doggrel , wit , and satire ; taking a ...
Over this charming creature the poet has thrown a beauty and a fascination , which were never , we think , surpassed . In this , as in the former cantos , he pours out a singular mixture of pathos , doggrel , wit , and satire ; taking a ...
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But many a Greek maid in a loving song Sighs o'er her name ; and many an islander With her sire's story makes the night less long ; Valour was his , and beauty dwelt with her : If she loved rashly , her life paid for wrong ( ? ) ...
But many a Greek maid in a loving song Sighs o'er her name ; and many an islander With her sire's story makes the night less long ; Valour was his , and beauty dwelt with her : If she loved rashly , her life paid for wrong ( ? ) ...
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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.