Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Հատոր 16 |
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I. NOTHING so difficult as a beginning In poesy , unless perhaps the end ; For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning The race , he sprains a wing , and down we tend , Like Lucifer when hurl'd from heaven for sinning ; Our sin the same ...
I. NOTHING so difficult as a beginning In poesy , unless perhaps the end ; For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning The race , he sprains a wing , and down we tend , Like Lucifer when hurl'd from heaven for sinning ; Our sin the same ...
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[ them : The heavens , and earth , and air , seem'd made for They found no fault with Time , save that he fled ; They saw not in themselves aught to condemn : Each was the other's mirror , and but read Joy sparkling in their dark eyes ...
[ them : The heavens , and earth , and air , seem'd made for They found no fault with Time , save that he fled ; They saw not in themselves aught to condemn : Each was the other's mirror , and but read Joy sparkling in their dark eyes ...
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I said to myself , it is not in the power of Heaven to relieve me - when I awaked , equally transported and astonished , to see myself drawn out of an affliction , which , the very moment before , appeared to be altogether inextricable ...
I said to myself , it is not in the power of Heaven to relieve me - when I awaked , equally transported and astonished , to see myself drawn out of an affliction , which , the very moment before , appeared to be altogether inextricable ...
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Oh ! Powers of Heaven ! what dark eye meets she there ? ' Tis - ' tis her father's --- fix'd upon the pair ! ( 1 ) [ MS . — “ And that short dream contain'd a life too long .
Oh ! Powers of Heaven ! what dark eye meets she there ? ' Tis - ' tis her father's --- fix'd upon the pair ! ( 1 ) [ MS . — “ And that short dream contain'd a life too long .
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... ( 1 ) But closed its little being without light , And went down to the grave unborn , wherein Blossom and bough lie wither'd with one blight ; In vain the dews of Heaven descend above The bleeding flower and blasted fruit of love .
... ( 1 ) But closed its little being without light , And went down to the grave unborn , wherein Blossom and bough lie wither'd with one blight ; In vain the dews of Heaven descend above The bleeding flower and blasted fruit of love .
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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.