The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals and His Life, Հատոր 16John Murray, 1847 |
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... women hate many things which strip off the tinsel of sentiment ; and they are right , as it would rob them of their weapons . I never knew a woman who did not hate De Grammont's Memoirs for the same reason . " We subjoin a single ...
... women hate many things which strip off the tinsel of sentiment ; and they are right , as it would rob them of their weapons . I never knew a woman who did not hate De Grammont's Memoirs for the same reason . " We subjoin a single ...
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... Woman or wine , you'll have to undergo ; Both maladies are taxes on our joys : But which to choose , I really hardly know ; And if I had to give a casting voice , For both sides I could many reasons show , And then decide , without ...
... Woman or wine , you'll have to undergo ; Both maladies are taxes on our joys : But which to choose , I really hardly know ; And if I had to give a casting voice , For both sides I could many reasons show , And then decide , without ...
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... woman of a good family in those parts , and had the satisfaction of seeing my addresses kindly received , which occasioned the perplexity I am going to relate . We were , in a calm evening , diverting ourselves , on the top of a cliff ...
... woman of a good family in those parts , and had the satisfaction of seeing my addresses kindly received , which occasioned the perplexity I am going to relate . We were , in a calm evening , diverting ourselves , on the top of a cliff ...
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... women , returned from her captivity , I heard sing , by a strange coincidence , in Rossini's opera of " L'Italiana in Algieri , " at Venice , in the beginning of 1817. — [ We have reason to believe that the following , which we take ...
... women , returned from her captivity , I heard sing , by a strange coincidence , in Rossini's opera of " L'Italiana in Algieri , " at Venice , in the beginning of 1817. — [ We have reason to believe that the following , which we take ...
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... women being prohibited as singers at St. Peter's , and not deemed trust - worthy as guardians of the harem . - ( 4 ) [ The gravest and deepest of the male voices . GRAHAM . ] But being the prima donna's near relation , Who swore CANTO ...
... women being prohibited as singers at St. Peter's , and not deemed trust - worthy as guardians of the harem . - ( 4 ) [ The gravest and deepest of the male voices . GRAHAM . ] But being the prima donna's near relation , Who swore CANTO ...
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Էջ 45 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
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 135 - 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 122 - 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 16 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...
Էջ 177 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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 225 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
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.