The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Հատոր 16J. Murray, 1835 |
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... perhaps surprise many readers . It will be seen that , throughout this powerful picture , the Poet has relied on a literal transcript of recorded facts , with precisely the same feel- ings which had produced the terrible verisi ...
... perhaps surprise many readers . It will be seen that , throughout this powerful picture , the Poet has relied on a literal transcript of recorded facts , with precisely the same feel- ings which had produced the terrible verisi ...
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... perhaps , been more fully exempt than Lord Byron . None of his pub- lications have failed in at least exciting a sufficient portion of general in- terest and attention ; and even those among them which the scrutinising eye of criticism ...
... perhaps , been more fully exempt than Lord Byron . None of his pub- lications have failed in at least exciting a sufficient portion of general in- terest and attention ; and even those among them which the scrutinising eye of criticism ...
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... 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 , and hard as his to mend , Being pride , ( 1 ) which ...
... 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 , and hard as his to mend , Being pride , ( 1 ) which ...
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... Perhaps no better than they have treated me Who have imputed such designs as show Not what they saw , but what they wish'd to see ; But if it gives them pleasure , be it so ; This is a liberal age , and thoughts are free : Meantime ...
... Perhaps no better than they have treated me Who have imputed such designs as show Not what they saw , but what they wish'd to see ; But if it gives them pleasure , be it so ; This is a liberal age , and thoughts are free : Meantime ...
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... perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save . ( 2 ) XIII . Haidée and Juan thought not of the dead . [ them : The heavens , and earth , and air , seem'd made for They found no fault with Time , save that he fled ...
... perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save . ( 2 ) XIII . Haidée and Juan thought not of the dead . [ them : The heavens , and earth , and air , seem'd made for They found no fault with Time , save that he fled ...
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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 331 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Էջ 6 - In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal...
Էջ 7 - Some have accused me of a strange design Against the creed and morals of the land, And trace it in this poem every line: I don't pretend that I quite understand My own meaning when I would be very fine...
Էջ 21 - It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so; A gentlemanly distance, not too near, If you have got a former friend for foe; But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.
Էջ 136 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Էջ 176 - They accuse me - Me - the present writer of The present poem - of - I know not what A tendency to under-rate and scoff At human power and virtue, and all that; And this they say in language rather rough. Good God! I wonder what they would be at! I say no more than hath been said in Dante's Verse, and by Solomon and by Cervantes...
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.