Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822, Volumes 1-2 |
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... Hobhouse ; Lord Byron's horseman- Page 9-11 11-16 St. Preux and Julia ; classical drowning . ship ; pistol - firing ; remarks on duelling ; his own duels . Anecdote 16-20 Sunset at Venice and Pisa . Routine of Lord Byron's life . The ...
... Hobhouse ; Lord Byron's horseman- Page 9-11 11-16 St. Preux and Julia ; classical drowning . ship ; pistol - firing ; remarks on duelling ; his own duels . Anecdote 16-20 Sunset at Venice and Pisa . Routine of Lord Byron's life . The ...
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... Hobhouse's opinion of Cain . ' Lord B.'s defence of that poem . Goethe's ' Faust . ' Letter to Murray respecting ' Cain . ' Bacchanalian song . Private theatricals . The Definite Article . A play proposed . The Guiccioli's Veto Merits ...
... Hobhouse's opinion of Cain . ' Lord B.'s defence of that poem . Goethe's ' Faust . ' Letter to Murray respecting ' Cain . ' Bacchanalian song . Private theatricals . The Definite Article . A play proposed . The Guiccioli's Veto Merits ...
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... Hobhouse ; commencement of his and Lord Byron's friendship ; similarity of pursuits . Dedication of Childe Harold . ' Lady Charlotte Harley , Lord Byron's Ianthe . Hobhouse's disser- tation on Italian literature ; his antiquarian ...
... Hobhouse ; commencement of his and Lord Byron's friendship ; similarity of pursuits . Dedication of Childe Harold . ' Lady Charlotte Harley , Lord Byron's Ianthe . Hobhouse's disser- tation on Italian literature ; his antiquarian ...
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... Hobhouse were almost the only English people I saw . No wonder ; I shewed a " distaste for society at that time , and went little among " the Genevese ; besides , I could not speak French . " What is become of my boatman and boat ? I ...
... Hobhouse were almost the only English people I saw . No wonder ; I shewed a " distaste for society at that time , and went little among " the Genevese ; besides , I could not speak French . " What is become of my boatman and boat ? I ...
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... Hobhouse before I became intimate with him . The " best marksmen at a target are not the surest in the 66 field . Cecil's and Stackpoole's affair proved this . They 66 466 fought after a quarrel of three years , c 2 LORD BYRON . 19.
... Hobhouse before I became intimate with him . The " best marksmen at a target are not the surest in the 66 field . Cecil's and Stackpoole's affair proved this . They 66 466 fought after a quarrel of three years , c 2 LORD BYRON . 19.
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Page 105 - 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 112 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 113 - 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!
Page 208 - Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it;— He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
Page 113 - ... 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.
Page 173 - 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 113 - But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 256 - 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 300 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Page 31 - Sweet hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood...