 | 1900 - 608 էջ
...production, ' Don Juan,' he tells us that his ' sere fancy has fallen ' into the yellow leaf : ' — ' And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.' It was in ' Beppo : a Venetian Story ' that he dropped, for the first time, the weapon of trenchant... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 232 էջ
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy ' ' falls into the yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk II. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 էջ
...mellow, And other minds aknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy' ,, falls into the yellow ,,Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk IV. And if I laugh at any mortal tiiing, Tis that I may not weep ; and if I \vecp, 'Tis that eur nature... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 էջ
...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may...our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] Such is not the experience of the Christian, who, weeping with those that... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 էջ
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring Ere what we least wish to behold will... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 372 էջ
...grief, or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I...our nature cannot always bring " Itself to apathy" &c. " the habit of sending Hobhouse, to whom I wrote on my " first wedding-day, and continue to write... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 էջ
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to hurlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 496 էջ
...grief, or gladness !—so it fling Forgetfulness around me.!" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep;—and if I weep, "Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy" &c, Don Juan, Canto... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 էջ
...or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !'' C/ii/dc Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I may not wee]) ; — and if I weep,. " drive away the memory of it, and make " me forget. • " I will give... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 էջ
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy « falls into the yellow Leaf,» and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...burlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep; and if I weep, ' T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy,... | |
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