Byron. Shelley. Moore. Rogers. Keats. Southey. LandorEdward Tuckerman Mason C. Scribner's Sons, 1884 - Authors, English |
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... Trelawny's " Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and By- ron " ( republished , with alterations and additions , as " Records of Shelley , Byron , and the Author " ) ; Ju- lius Millingen's " Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece ...
... Trelawny's " Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and By- ron " ( republished , with alterations and additions , as " Records of Shelley , Byron , and the Author " ) ; Ju- lius Millingen's " Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece ...
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... Trelawny's impressions . height , five feet eight and a half inches ; regular features , without a stain or furrow on his pallid skin , his shoulders broad , chest open , body and limbs finely proportioned . His small finely - finished ...
... Trelawny's impressions . height , five feet eight and a half inches ; regular features , without a stain or furrow on his pallid skin , his shoulders broad , chest open , body and limbs finely proportioned . His small finely - finished ...
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... TRELAWNY ( " Records of Shelley , Byron , etc. " ) . " 2 He had most beautiful eyes , well set in his head ; they were like a cat's , changing continually in color , now brown , now golden , then green , full of ever- varying expression ...
... TRELAWNY ( " Records of Shelley , Byron , etc. " ) . " 2 He had most beautiful eyes , well set in his head ; they were like a cat's , changing continually in color , now brown , now golden , then green , full of ever- varying expression ...
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... TRELAWNY ( " Records of Shelley , Byron , etc. , " 1878 ) . In 1858 Trelawny said , in his " Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron : " " Both Byron's feet were clubbed , and his legs withered to the knee -the form and ...
... TRELAWNY ( " Records of Shelley , Byron , etc. , " 1878 ) . In 1858 Trelawny said , in his " Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron : " " Both Byron's feet were clubbed , and his legs withered to the knee -the form and ...
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... Trelawny says , " In truth Byron never smoked either pipe or cigar . " It is very difficult , however , to reconcile this statement with the allu- sions to smoking which are to be found in Byron's poems . For further particulars about ...
... Trelawny says , " In truth Byron never smoked either pipe or cigar . " It is very difficult , however , to reconcile this statement with the allu- sions to smoking which are to be found in Byron's poems . For further particulars about ...
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Page iii - Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread , But as the marigold at the sun's eye ; And iu themselves their pride lies buried , For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once...
Page 137 - I was silent from astonishment; was it possible this mild-looking, beardless boy, could be the veritable monster at war with all the world? — excommunicated by the Fathers of the Church, deprived of his civil rights by the fiat of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family, and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school?
Page 92 - His features were not symmetrical (the mouth, perhaps, excepted), yet was the effect of the whole extremely powerful. They breathed an animation, a fire, an enthusiasm, a vivid and preternatural intelligence that I never met with in any other countenance.
Page 138 - ... of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family, and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school ? I could not believe it ; it must be a hoax.
Page 75 - The errors of Lord Byron arose neither from depravity of heart, — for nature had not committed the anomaly of uniting to such extraordinary talents an imperfect, moral sense, — nor from feelings dead to the admiration of virtue. No man had ever a kinder heart for sympathy, or a more open hand for the relief of distress ; and no mind was ever more formed for the enthusiastic admiration of noble actions, providing he was convinced that the actors had proceeded on disinterested principles.
Page 140 - The other was up at six or seven, reading Plato, Sophocles, or Spinoza, with the accompaniment of a hunch of dry bread ; then he joined Williams in a sail on the Arno, in a flat-bottomed skiff, book in hand, and from thence he went to the pine-forest, or some out-of-the-way place. When the birds went to roost he returned home, and talked and read until midnight.
Page 113 - Acid, or essential oil of bitter almonds, I should regard it as a great kindness if you could procure me a small quantity. It requires the greatest caution in preparation, and ought to be highly concentrated ; I would give any price for this medicine ; you remember we talked of it the other night, and...
Page 303 - We all conceived a prepossession in his favor; for there was a sterling quality in this laugh, and in his vigorous healthy voice, and in the roundness and fulness with which he uttered every word he spoke, and in the very fury of his superlatives, which seemed to go off like blank cannons and hurt nothing. But we were hardly prepared to have it so confirmed by his appearance, when Mr.
Page 33 - B.'s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it...
Page 112 - When he recovered his breath, he said : "I always find the bottom of the well, and they say Truth lies there. In another minute I should have found it, and you. would have found an empty shell. It is an easy way of getting rid of the body.