Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy, Band 1H. Colburn, 1828 - 494 Seiten |
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... Don Juan ( which he did under the influence of gin and water ) , rose late in the morning . He break- fasted ; read ; lounged about , singing an air , generally out of Rossini , and in a swaggering style , though in a voice at once ...
... Don Juan ( which he did under the influence of gin and water ) , rose late in the morning . He break- fasted ; read ; lounged about , singing an air , generally out of Rossini , and in a swaggering style , though in a voice at once ...
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... Don Juan , " was his weakness ; and he calls it " a very painful attribute . " It is an attribute certainly not very godlike ; but it still left him as self - centered and unsympathising with his movers , as if he • had been a statue or ...
... Don Juan , " was his weakness ; and he calls it " a very painful attribute . " It is an attribute certainly not very godlike ; but it still left him as self - centered and unsympathising with his movers , as if he • had been a statue or ...
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... Don Juan ! " When Lord Byron talked freely to her before others , she was not affected by what would have startled a delicate Englishwoman , ( a com- mon Italian defect ) , but when he alluded to 74 LORD BYRON .
... Don Juan ! " When Lord Byron talked freely to her before others , she was not affected by what would have startled a delicate Englishwoman , ( a com- mon Italian defect ) , but when he alluded to 74 LORD BYRON .
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... Don Juan . His favourite reading was history and travels . I think I am correct in saying that his favou- rite authors were Bayle and Gibbon . Gib- bon was altogether a writer calculated to please him . There was a show in him , and at ...
... Don Juan . His favourite reading was history and travels . I think I am correct in saying that his favou- rite authors were Bayle and Gibbon . Gib- bon was altogether a writer calculated to please him . There was a show in him , and at ...
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... Don Juan . And finally , his learning and research supplied the indolent man of letters with the informa- tion which he had left at school . Lord Byron's collection of books was poor , and consisted chiefly of new ones . I remem- ber ...
... Don Juan . And finally , his learning and research supplied the indolent man of letters with the informa- tion which he had left at school . Lord Byron's collection of books was poor , and consisted chiefly of new ones . I remem- ber ...
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Seite 429 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd, With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon, Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez, and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 428 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device...
Seite 364 - The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's. I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. III. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around...
Seite 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.
Seite 434 - Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone...
Seite 435 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Seite 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.
Seite 437 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! J Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.