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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... soon made me perfectly at home in his society . Our first interview was marked with a cordiality and con- fidence that flattered while it delighted me , and I felt anxious for the next day , in order that I might re- peat my visit ...
... soon made me perfectly at home in his society . Our first interview was marked with a cordiality and con- fidence that flattered while it delighted me , and I felt anxious for the next day , in order that I might re- peat my visit ...
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... soon set me up . I never led so moral a life as during my residence in that country ; but I gained no credit by it . Where there is a mortification , there ought to be reward . On the contrary , there is no story so absurd that they did ...
... soon set me up . I never led so moral a life as during my residence in that country ; but I gained no credit by it . Where there is a mortification , there ought to be reward . On the contrary , there is no story so absurd that they did ...
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... Soon after we got off the stones , we mounted our horses , which were waiting for us . Lord Byron is an ad- mirable horseman , combining grace with the securi- ty of his seat . He prides himself much on this ex- ercise . He conducted us ...
... Soon after we got off the stones , we mounted our horses , which were waiting for us . Lord Byron is an ad- mirable horseman , combining grace with the securi- ty of his seat . He prides himself much on this ex- ercise . He conducted us ...
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... soon collected , but no one ventured to offer the least assistance . I soon directed my ser- vant to lift up the bleeding body and carry it into my palace ; but it was represented to me that by so do- ing I should confirm the suspicion ...
... soon collected , but no one ventured to offer the least assistance . I soon directed my ser- vant to lift up the bleeding body and carry it into my palace ; but it was represented to me that by so do- ing I should confirm the suspicion ...
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... soon melted away . I was beset by duns , and at length an execution was levied , and the bai- liffs put in possession of the very beds we had to sleep on . This was no very agreeable state of af fairs - no very pleasant scene for Lady ...
... soon melted away . I was beset by duns , and at length an execution was levied , and the bai- liffs put in possession of the very beds we had to sleep on . This was no very agreeable state of af fairs - no very pleasant scene for Lady ...
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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.