The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Հատոր 6J. Murray, 1873 |
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Abel Adah Adam altar ARNOLD art thou aught BARBARIGO bear beautiful behold better blood born Bourb Bourbon brother Cæs Cæsar Cain chamber Chief Count curse dare death didst Doge dost doth ducal dungeon e'er earth Enter eternal evil Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel Foscari Francesco Foscari Frankfort Fritz GABOR hath heard heart heaven hour Iden IDENSTEIN immortal JOSEPHINE leave less live look Lord Byron Loredano Lucifer Marina methinks mortal mother ne'er never noble nought o'er palace Pietro Loredano poor pray pre-Adamite prince Rome scarce serpent Sieg Siegendorf signor sire Soldiers soul speak spirit Stral Stralenheim Stran stranger thee thine things thou art thou hast thought true Ulric unto Venice walls WERNER wilt wouldst wretch Zillah
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Էջ 149 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out, For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful, and good husbandry : Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all ; admonishing, That we should 'dress us fairly for our end. Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Էջ 203 - Whosoever hath any thing fixed in his person that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn...
Էջ 202 - One of the most striking passages, indeed, in the few pages of that memoir which related to his early days, was where, in speaking of his own sensitiveness, on the subject of his deformed foot, he described the feeling of horror and humiliation that came over him, when his mother, in one of her fits of passion, called him
Էջ 78 - Along with the concentrated pathos and homestruck sentiments of his former poetry, the noble author seems also, we cannot imagine why, to have discarded the spirited and melodious versification in which they were embodied, and to have formed to himself a measure equally remote from the spring and vigour of his former compositions, and from the softness and inflexibility of the ancient masters of the drama.
Էջ 166 - For valour, since deformity is daring. It is its essence to o'ertake mankind By heart and soul, and make itself the equal — Ay, the superior of the rest. There is A spur in its halt movements, to become All that the others cannot, in such things As still are free to both, to compensate For stepdame Nature's avarice at first.
Էջ 146 - A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity;' nor is that curiosity ever more agreeably or usefully employed, than in examining the laws and customs of foreign nations.
Էջ 2 - Gifford don't take to my new dramas. To be sure, they are as opposite to the English drama as one thing can be to another; but I have a notion that, if understood, they will in time find favour (though not on the stage) with the reader. The simplicity of plot is intentional, and the avoidance of rant also, as also the compression of the speeches in the more severe situations. What I seek to show in ' The Foscaris ' is the suppressed passions, rather than the rant of the present day.
Էջ 82 - The great key to the mystery is, perhaps, the imperfection of our own faculties, which see and feel strongly the partial evils which press upon us, but know too little of the general system of the universe, to be aware how the existence of these is to be reconciled with the benevolence of the great Creator Ever yours truly, WALTER SCOTT.
Էջ 148 - Cain is a proud man : if Lucifer ' promised him kingdom, &c. it would elate him : the ' object of the Demon is to depress him still further in ' his own estimation than he was before, by showing ' him infinite things and his own abasement, till he ' falls into the frame of mind that leads to the catas...
Էջ 143 - An allusion to a doubtful topic will often pass for a definitive conclusion on it; and, clothed in beautiful language, may leave the most pernicious impressions behind. We therefore think that poets ought fairly to be confined to the established creed and morality of their country, or to the actual passions and sentiments of mankind ; and that poetical dreamers and sophists who pretend to theorise according to their feverish fancies, without a warrant from authority or reason, ought to be banished...