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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... considered it as a school , I should have been happy at Harrow . There is one spot I should like * He had always a black riband round his neck , to which was attached a locket containing hair and a picture . We had been playing at ...
... considered it as a school , I should have been happy at Harrow . There is one spot I should like * He had always a black riband round his neck , to which was attached a locket containing hair and a picture . We had been playing at ...
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... considered an enemy to religion , and an unbeliever . I disowned the other day that I was of Shelley's school in metaphysics , though I admired his poetry ; not but what he has changed his mode of thinking very much since he wrote the ...
... considered an enemy to religion , and an unbeliever . I disowned the other day that I was of Shelley's school in metaphysics , though I admired his poetry ; not but what he has changed his mode of thinking very much since he wrote the ...
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... considered a traveller's tale made me suppress the fact of its genuineness . The Marquis of Sligo , who knew the particulars of the story , reminded me of them in England , and wonder- ed I had not authenticated them in the Preface ...
... considered a traveller's tale made me suppress the fact of its genuineness . The Marquis of Sligo , who knew the particulars of the story , reminded me of them in England , and wonder- ed I had not authenticated them in the Preface ...
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... considered responsi- ble for what I publish , I am at a loss to conceive . If ' Cain ' be blasphemous , ' Paradise Lost ' is blasphemous ; and the words of the Oxford gentleman , ' Evil , be thou my good , ' are from that very poem ...
... considered responsi- ble for what I publish , I am at a loss to conceive . If ' Cain ' be blasphemous , ' Paradise Lost ' is blasphemous ; and the words of the Oxford gentleman , ' Evil , be thou my good , ' are from that very poem ...
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... considered a sort of suicide , was always doubtful to me . I was never more surprised than to see , two years afterwards , " The Deformed Transformed ' announced ; ( supposing it to have perished at Pisa ; ) but it seems that he must ...
... considered a sort of suicide , was always doubtful to me . I was never more surprised than to see , two years afterwards , " The Deformed Transformed ' announced ; ( supposing it to have perished at Pisa ; ) but it seems that he must ...
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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.