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... never have appeared before the public . I despise mere writing for the sake of book - making , and have disdained to swell out my materials into volumes . I have given his ideas as I noted them down at the time , -in his own words , as ...
... never have appeared before the public . I despise mere writing for the sake of book - making , and have disdained to swell out my materials into volumes . I have given his ideas as I noted them down at the time , -in his own words , as ...
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... never gone out of my way . This " is partly owing to the indolence of my disposition , partly owing to my incum- " brances . I had some idea , when at " Rome , of visiting Naples , but was at " that time anxious to get back to Venice ...
... never gone out of my way . This " is partly owing to the indolence of my disposition , partly owing to my incum- " brances . I had some idea , when at " Rome , of visiting Naples , but was at " that time anxious to get back to Venice ...
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... never worth " much . When I went the tour of the Lake " in her with Shelley and Hobhouse , she was 66 nearly wrecked near the very spot where " St. Preux and Julia were in danger of " being drowned . It would have been clas- " sical to ...
... never worth " much . When I went the tour of the Lake " in her with Shelley and Hobhouse , she was 66 nearly wrecked near the very spot where " St. Preux and Julia were in danger of " being drowned . It would have been clas- " sical to ...
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... never so " attached to any place in my life as to Ra- 66 venna ; and but for the failure of the Con- " stitutionalists and this fracas , should pro- bably never have left it . The peasantry 66 " are the best people in the world , and ...
... never so " attached to any place in my life as to Ra- 66 venna ; and but for the failure of the Con- " stitutionalists and this fracas , should pro- bably never have left it . The peasantry 66 " are the best people in the world , and ...
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... never " stir out without being well armed , and sleep " with pistols . They knew that I never " D 2 LORD BYRON . 35.
... never " stir out without being well armed , and sleep " with pistols . They knew that I never " D 2 LORD BYRON . 35.
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Page 146 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife...
Page 157 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 118 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played.
Page 251 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 156 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And -we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 158 - We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 116 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Page 79 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...