The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,, Band 13John Murray, 1832 |
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... thou dost for more shekels Than all our father's herds would bring if weigh'd Against the metal of the sons of Cain The yellow dust they try to barter with us , As if such useless and discolour'd trash , The refuse of the earth , could ...
... thou dost for more shekels Than all our father's herds would bring if weigh'd Against the metal of the sons of Cain The yellow dust they try to barter with us , As if such useless and discolour'd trash , The refuse of the earth , could ...
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... Thou unknown , terrible , and indistinct , Yet awful Thing of Shadows , speak to me ! Why dost thou laugh that horrid laugh ? Spirit . Why weep'st thou ? ( 1 ) [ This soliloquy has the fault of being too long and wire - drawn . At its ...
... Thou unknown , terrible , and indistinct , Yet awful Thing of Shadows , speak to me ! Why dost thou laugh that horrid laugh ? Spirit . Why weep'st thou ? ( 1 ) [ This soliloquy has the fault of being too long and wire - drawn . At its ...
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... doth the earth - born here , While all his race are slumbering ? Japh . Angel ! what Dost thou on earth when thou shouldst be on high ? Aza . Know'st thou not , or forget'st thou , that a part Of our great function is to guard thine ...
... doth the earth - born here , While all his race are slumbering ? Japh . Angel ! what Dost thou on earth when thou shouldst be on high ? Aza . Know'st thou not , or forget'st thou , that a part Of our great function is to guard thine ...
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... dost thou think that we , With Cain's , the eldest born of Adam's , blood Warm in our veins , - strong Cain ! who was begotten In Paradise , - would mingle with Seth's children ? Seth , the last offspring of old Adam's dotage ? No , not ...
... dost thou think that we , With Cain's , the eldest born of Adam's , blood Warm in our veins , - strong Cain ! who was begotten In Paradise , - would mingle with Seth's children ? Seth , the last offspring of old Adam's dotage ? No , not ...
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... Thou who dost rather make me dream that Abel Had left a daughter , whose pure pious race Survived in thee , so much unlike thou art The rest of the stern Cainites , save in beauty , For all of them are fairest in their favour- Aho ...
... Thou who dost rather make me dream that Abel Had left a daughter , whose pure pious race Survived in thee , so much unlike thou art The rest of the stern Cainites , save in beauty , For all of them are fairest in their favour- Aho ...
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Seite 7 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Seite 67 - Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me; before such authorities I am afraid to stand, not that I think the present question one of those that are to be decided by mere...
Seite 52 - Let it suffice thee that thou know'st Us happy, and without love no happiness. Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy'st (And pure thou wert created) we enjoy In eminence, and obstacle find none Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclusive bars; Easier than air with air, if spirits embrace, Total they mix, union of pure with pure Desiring...
Seite 322 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world : his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There...
Seite 63 - TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OF A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE LORD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITERS, WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND ILLUSTRATED THAT OF EUROPE.
Seite 62 - Shakespeare ; and so much the better in one sense, for I look upon him to be the worst of models, though the most extraordinary of writers. It has been my object to be as simple and severe as Alfieri, and I have broken down the poetry as nearly as I could to common language.
Seite 167 - I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse — borne away with every breath ! Misplaced upon the throne — misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be— let it cud.
Seite 67 - ... have begun by chance. As nothing is essential to the fable but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety...
Seite 67 - Whether Shakespeare knew the unities, and rejected them by design, or deviated from them by happy ignorance, it is, I think, impossible to decide and useless to inquire.
Seite 66 - ... unities;' conceiving that with any very distant departure from them, there may be poetry, but can be no drama. He is aware of the unpopularity of this notion in present English literature; but it is not a system of his own, being merely an opinion, which, not very long ago, was the law of literature throughout the world, and is still so in the more civilised parts of it.