Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Հատոր 16John Murray, 1833 |
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... present . The cry is up , and cant is up . I should have no objection to return the price of the copyright . " February 7. 1820. " I have cut the third Canto into two , because it was too long ; and I tell you this beforehand , because ...
... present . The cry is up , and cant is up . I should have no objection to return the price of the copyright . " February 7. 1820. " I have cut the third Canto into two , because it was too long ; and I tell you this beforehand , because ...
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... present day has been more generally read , or its continuation more eagerly and impatiently awaited . Its poetical merits have been ex- tolled to the skies by its admirers , and the Priest and the Levite , though they have joined to ...
... present day has been more generally read , or its continuation more eagerly and impatiently awaited . Its poetical merits have been ex- tolled to the skies by its admirers , and the Priest and the Levite , though they have joined to ...
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... present thought . ( 1 ) [ The celebrated " Confessions of an English Opium Eater , " by Mr. De Quincey , had been published shortly before this Canto was written . — -E . ] XXI . I know not why , but in that 12 CANTO IV . DON JUAN .
... present thought . ( 1 ) [ The celebrated " Confessions of an English Opium Eater , " by Mr. De Quincey , had been published shortly before this Canto was written . — -E . ] XXI . I know not why , but in that 12 CANTO IV . DON JUAN .
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... present vouches for the past . ( 2 ) XLVII . " Let him disarm ; or , by my father's head , His own shall roll before you like a ball ! " He raised his whistle , as the word he said , And blew , another answer'd to the call , ( 1 ) [ The ...
... present vouches for the past . ( 2 ) XLVII . " Let him disarm ; or , by my father's head , His own shall roll before you like a ball ! " He raised his whistle , as the word he said , And blew , another answer'd to the call , ( 1 ) [ The ...
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... present , Just at the very time when he least broods On such a thing is suddenly to sea sent , Wounded and chain'd , so that he cannot move , And all because a lady fell in love . LII . Here I must leave him , for I grow pathetic ...
... present , Just at the very time when he least broods On such a thing is suddenly to sea sent , Wounded and chain'd , so that he cannot move , And all because a lady fell in love . LII . Here I must leave him , for I grow pathetic ...
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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.