Journal of Correspondence and Conversations Between Lord Byron and the Countess of BlessingtonLorenzo Stratton, 1851 - 242 էջ |
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Journal of Correspondence and Conversations Between Lord Byron and the ... Marguerite Countess of Blessington Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1851 |
Journal of Correspondence and Conversations Between Lord Byron and the ... Marguerite Countess of Blessington Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1851 |
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Էջ 206 - BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Էջ 189 - Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft', familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Էջ 59 - Oh, my God, I take encouragement from the assurance of thy word, to pray to Thee in behalf of one for whom I have lately been much interested. May the person to whom I allude (and who is now, we fear, as much distinguished for his neglect of Thee as for the transcendent...
Էջ 226 - In height he was, as he himself has informed us, five feet eight inches and a half, and to the length of his limbs he attributed his being such a good swimmer. His hands were very white, and — according to his own notion of the size of hands as indicating birth — aristocratically small.
Էջ 206 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband : else were your children unclean ; but now are they holy.
Էջ 212 - But, joking apart, what I think of myself is, that I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long, — I am such a strange melange of good and evil, that it would be difficult to describe me.
Էջ 173 - But though I accuse Lady Byron of an excess of self-respect, I must in candour admit, that if any person ever had an excuse for an extraordinary portion of it, she has; as in all her thoughts, words, and deeds, she is the most decorous woman that ever existed, and must appear — what few, I fancy, could — a perfect and refined gentlewoman, even to her femme-de-chambre.
Էջ 165 - No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.
Էջ 240 - Until, therefore, the final determination of the National Government be known, and by virtue of the powers with which it has been pleased to invest me, I hereby decree, — "1st, To-morrow morning, at daylight, thirty seven minute guns will be fired from the Grand Battery, being the number which corresponds with the age of the illustrious deceased.
Էջ 75 - ... alembic of his mind, become so embellished as to lose all identity with the original crude embryos he had adopted. This was proved to me in another instance, when a book that he was constantly in the habit of looking over fell into my hands, and I traced various passages marked by his pencil or by his notes, which gave me the idea of having led to certain trains of thought in his works. He told me that he \ rarely ever read a page that did not give rise to chains of thought, the first idea serving...