Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Հատոր 1John Murray, 1833 |
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... doubt , of piquing the ambition of both . On these occasions , and only these , Byron was some- times at the head , and the master , to banter him , - - * " He was , " says one of my informants , " a good hand at marbles , and could ...
... doubt , of piquing the ambition of both . On these occasions , and only these , Byron was some- times at the head , and the master , to banter him , - - * " He was , " says one of my informants , " a good hand at marbles , and could ...
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... doubt if I have ever been really attached since . Be that as it may , hearing of her marriage several years after was like a thunder - stroke it nearly choked me - - to the horror of my mother and the astonish- ment and almost ...
... doubt if I have ever been really attached since . Be that as it may , hearing of her marriage several years after was like a thunder - stroke it nearly choked me - - to the horror of my mother and the astonish- ment and almost ...
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... doubt that his character would have been , in many respects , the better for it . In the following year his grand- uncle , the fifth Lord Byron , died at Newstead Abbey , having passed the latter years of his strange life in a state of ...
... doubt that his character would have been , in many respects , the better for it . In the following year his grand- uncle , the fifth Lord Byron , died at Newstead Abbey , having passed the latter years of his strange life in a state of ...
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... carriage to his lady , and , mounting the box , drove off himself . These stories are , no doubt , as gross fictions as some of those of which his illustrious suc- cessor was afterwards made the victim ; and a fe- 30 1798 . NOTICES OF THE.
... carriage to his lady , and , mounting the box , drove off himself . These stories are , no doubt , as gross fictions as some of those of which his illustrious suc- cessor was afterwards made the victim ; and a fe- 30 1798 . NOTICES OF THE.
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... doubt , though on what grounds accorded , I know not of a pension on the Civil List , of 300l . a year . The following is a copy of the King's warrant for the grant : ( Signed ) " GEORGE R. " WHEREAS we are graciously pleased to grant ...
... doubt , though on what grounds accorded , I know not of a pension on the Civil List , of 300l . a year . The following is a copy of the King's warrant for the grant : ( Signed ) " GEORGE R. " WHEREAS we are graciously pleased to grant ...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1832 |
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Էջ 305 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Էջ 194 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Էջ 62 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Էջ 307 - Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! Or, since that has left my breast, Keep it now, and take the rest! Hear my vow before I go, ZtoT) p,ou, ads d^aira>. By those tresses unconfined, Woo'd by each /Egean wind; By those lids whose jetty fringe Kiss thy soft cheeks...
Էջ 50 - Brighten'd, and for a moment seem'd to roam, He squeezed from out a rag some drops of rain Into his dying child's mouth — but in vain.
Էջ 193 - I hold virtue, in general, or the virtues severally, to be only in the disposition, each a feeling, not a principle. I believe truth the prime attribute of the Deity, and death an eternal sleep, at least of the body. You have here a brief compendium of the sentiments of the wicked George, Lord Byron; 1 and, till I get a new suit, you will perceive I am badly clothed. I remain yours, etc., BYRON.
Էջ 62 - But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head, Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There would he wander wild, till Phoebus' beam, Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team.
Էջ 49 - Little he said, and now and then he smiled, As if to win a part from off the weight He saw increasing on his father's heart, With the deep, deadly thought, that they must part.
Էջ 32 - Syne" brings Scotland, one and all, Scotch plaids, Scotch snoods, the blue hills, and clear streams, The Dee, the Don, Balgounie's brig's Hack wall,* All my boy feelings, all my gentler dreams Of what I then dreamt, clothed in their own pall, Like Banquo's offspring ; — floating past me seems My childhood in this childishness of mine : I care not — 'tis a glimpse of "Auld Lang Syne.
Էջ 25 - And what was my answer? I really cannot explain or account for my feelings at that moment ; but they nearly threw me into convulsions, and alarmed my mother so much, that after I grew better, she generally avoided the subject — to me — and contented herself with telling it to all her acquaintance.