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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... respect fit to appear ; but it has long ceased to be within my no- tions of what is necessary for society , to give an unpleasant account of any man ; and as to my own biography , I soon became tired of that . It is true , I should have ...
... respect fit to appear ; but it has long ceased to be within my no- tions of what is necessary for society , to give an unpleasant account of any man ; and as to my own biography , I soon became tired of that . It is true , I should have ...
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... respect for a writer , to contend with him ; and I keep what I have to say on these matters , till the promised work appears from the pen of Mr. Moore . Meanwhile , however , in order to answer a question put to me in the Quar- terly ...
... respect for a writer , to contend with him ; and I keep what I have to say on these matters , till the promised work appears from the pen of Mr. Moore . Meanwhile , however , in order to answer a question put to me in the Quar- terly ...
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... respect for his rank than I was wil- ling to suppose , my sympathy was not an agreeable one ; so , contenting myself with see- ing his Lordship's head bob up and down in the water , like a buoy , I came away . Lord Byron was afterwards ...
... respect for his rank than I was wil- ling to suppose , my sympathy was not an agreeable one ; so , contenting myself with see- ing his Lordship's head bob up and down in the water , like a buoy , I came away . Lord Byron was afterwards ...
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... respecting another and greater matter . Two hundred pounds were sent me from Italy , to enable me to leave England with comfort . They came from Lord Byron , and nothing was said to me of security , or LORD BYRON . 25.
... respecting another and greater matter . Two hundred pounds were sent me from Italy , to enable me to leave England with comfort . They came from Lord Byron , and nothing was said to me of security , or LORD BYRON . 25.
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... respect towards others , in any degree worth speaking of , nor even ( with shame I say it ) just to my own children ( though I trust to outlive that culpability ) , yet I have never refused to share my last sixpence ( no idle phrase in ...
... respect towards others , in any degree worth speaking of , nor even ( with shame I say it ) just to my own children ( though I trust to outlive that culpability ) , yet I have never refused to share my last sixpence ( no idle phrase in ...
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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.