Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822, Volume 1 |
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... Greece , remarked upon one of the bas - reliefs of the Parthenon , La ! what mantel- pieces these would make , my Lord ! " When we were announced , we found his Lordship writing . His reception was frank and kind ; he took me cor ...
... Greece , remarked upon one of the bas - reliefs of the Parthenon , La ! what mantel- pieces these would make , my Lord ! " When we were announced , we found his Lordship writing . His reception was frank and kind ; he took me cor ...
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... Greece , I was never so attached to any place in my life as to Ravenna , and but for the failure of the Constitutionalists and this fracas , should probably never have left it . The peasantry are the best people in the world , and the ...
... Greece , I was never so attached to any place in my life as to Ravenna , and but for the failure of the Constitutionalists and this fracas , should probably never have left it . The peasantry are the best people in the world , and the ...
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... Greece , * Perhaps in his lyrical pieces , even those To Thyrza , ' he never surpassed those exquisitely feeling Stanzas beginning- " O had my fate been join'd to thine , " & c . † " the one To end in madness ; both in misery . " The ...
... Greece , * Perhaps in his lyrical pieces , even those To Thyrza , ' he never surpassed those exquisitely feeling Stanzas beginning- " O had my fate been join'd to thine , " & c . † " the one To end in madness ; both in misery . " The ...
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... Greece that impress- ed itself lastingly on my memory . I had once thought of founding a tale on it ; but the subject is too har- rowing for any nerves - too terrible for any pen ! An order was issued at Zanina by its sanguinary Rajah ...
... Greece that impress- ed itself lastingly on my memory . I had once thought of founding a tale on it ; but the subject is too har- rowing for any nerves - too terrible for any pen ! An order was issued at Zanina by its sanguinary Rajah ...
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... should most likely have passed the remainder . of my life in Turkey , if I had not been called home by my mother's death and my affairs , " said he , “ Į mean to return to Greece , and shall in all 56 CONVERSATIONS OF.
... should most likely have passed the remainder . of my life in Turkey , if I had not been called home by my mother's death and my affairs , " said he , “ Į mean to return to Greece , and shall in all 56 CONVERSATIONS OF.
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Page 75 - 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 nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 75 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 90 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 16 - Sweet hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flow'd o'er, To where the last Caesarean fortress stood, Evergreen forest!
Page 35 - I have a passion for the name of " Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be ; All feelings changed, but this was last to vary, A spell from which even yet I am not quite free : But I grow sad — and let a tale grow cold, Which must not be pathetically told.
Page 75 - 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 181 - His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.
Page 181 - 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.
Page 69 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy...
Page 162 - I know not who may conquer : if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain, sworn, downright detestation Of every despotism in every nation.