Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy, Volume 1 |
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... regard to any one , -I could not conceal from myself , on looking over the manuscript , that in renewing my intercourse with him in ima- gination , I had involuntarily felt an access of the spleen and indignation , which I experi- enced ...
... regard to any one , -I could not conceal from myself , on looking over the manuscript , that in renewing my intercourse with him in ima- gination , I had involuntarily felt an access of the spleen and indignation , which I experi- enced ...
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... regard to one of us , who stood blushing and looking in her eyes , and not knowing well what to be at . I thought we ought to have struck up a quartett . But there might have ensued a quintett , not so harmo- nious ; and the scene was ...
... regard to one of us , who stood blushing and looking in her eyes , and not knowing well what to be at . I thought we ought to have struck up a quartett . But there might have ensued a quintett , not so harmo- nious ; and the scene was ...
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... regard to their own customs : -but I shall be digressing too far . Among other things , in which I dif- fer in point of theory ( for in practice I am bound to say that of late , though for other reasons , I have totally altered in this ...
... regard to their own customs : -but I shall be digressing too far . Among other things , in which I dif- fer in point of theory ( for in practice I am bound to say that of late , though for other reasons , I have totally altered in this ...
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... regard to Mr. Moore , whom I have never seen or corresponded with since his efforts against the Liberal , he has not been the less aware of the feelings entertained on the subject by myself and others . the attachment was real ; that it ...
... regard to Mr. Moore , whom I have never seen or corresponded with since his efforts against the Liberal , he has not been the less aware of the feelings entertained on the subject by myself and others . the attachment was real ; that it ...
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... regard being founded solely on her person , and not surviv- ing in the shape of a considerate tenderness , had so degenerated in a short space of time , that if you were startled to hear the lady com- plain of him as she did , and that ...
... regard being founded solely on her person , and not surviv- ing in the shape of a considerate tenderness , had so degenerated in a short space of time , that if you were startled to hear the lady com- plain of him as she did , and that ...
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Page 435 - Ode to a Nightingale MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 436 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 446 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 437 - Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Page 437 - Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?
Page 434 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 428 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device...
Page 340 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Page 364 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 419 - Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public.— What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished.'— Preface, p.