The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volumen12J. Murray, 1832 |
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... judge of the simplicity of plot , ' and do not judge me by your old mad dramatists ; which is like drinking usquebaugh , and then proving a fountain . Yet , after all , I sup- pose you do not mean that spirits is a nobler element than a ...
... judge of the simplicity of plot , ' and do not judge me by your old mad dramatists ; which is like drinking usquebaugh , and then proving a fountain . Yet , after all , I sup- pose you do not mean that spirits is a nobler element than a ...
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... judge , and his certainty of his own imprudence in electing them his judges . Were I capable of writing a play which could be deemed stage - worthy , success would give me no pleasure , and failure great pain . It is for this reason ...
... judge , and his certainty of his own imprudence in electing them his judges . Were I capable of writing a play which could be deemed stage - worthy , success would give me no pleasure , and failure great pain . It is for this reason ...
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... judges , even in seeming ; My station near the accused too , Michel Steno , Made me . [ that . Doge ( abruptly ) . And how look'd he ? deliver Vin . Calm , but not overcast , he stood resign'd To the decree , whate'er it were ; — but lo ...
... judges , even in seeming ; My station near the accused too , Michel Steno , Made me . [ that . Doge ( abruptly ) . And how look'd he ? deliver Vin . Calm , but not overcast , he stood resign'd To the decree , whate'er it were ; — but lo ...
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... judges but those named by law- As sovereign , I appeal'd unto my subjects , The very subjects who had made me sovereign , And gave me thus a double right to be so . The rights of place and choice , of birth and service , Honours and ...
... judges but those named by law- As sovereign , I appeal'd unto my subjects , The very subjects who had made me sovereign , And gave me thus a double right to be so . The rights of place and choice , of birth and service , Honours and ...
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... judge in my own cause , Nor do I know what sense of punishment May reach the soul of ribalds such as Steno ; But if his insults sink no deeper in The minds of the inquisitors than they Have ruffled mine , he will , for all acquittance ...
... judge in my own cause , Nor do I know what sense of punishment May reach the soul of ribalds such as Steno ; But if his insults sink no deeper in The minds of the inquisitors than they Have ruffled mine , he will , for all acquittance ...
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Página 209 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Página 251 - The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon Broke out of bounds o'er the ethereal blue, Splitting some planet with its playful tail, As boats are sometimes by a wanton whale.
Página 8 - 1 viso; Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante , Questi , che mai da me non fia diviso , La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante. Galeotto fu il libro, e chi lo scrisse; Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante.
Página 15 - 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! which Boccaccio's lore And Dryden's lay made haunted ground...
Página 19 - OH, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
Página 206 - Who kindlest and who quenchest suns ! — Attest ' I am not innocent, — but, are these guiltless ? I perish, but not unavenged ; far ages Float up from the abyss of time to be, And show these eyes, before they close, the doom Of this proud city ; and I leave my curse On her and hers forever...
Página 246 - She whipped two female prentices to death. And hid them in the coal-hole ; for her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans • such as erst chastised Our Milton when at college. For this act Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws ! But time shall come, When France shall reign, and laws be all repealed.
Página 11 - Alone we were, and no Suspicion near us. Oft-times by that reading Our eyes were drawn together, and the hue Fled from our alter'd cheek.
Página 39 - Boats," and "Waggons !" Oh ! ye shades Of Pope and Dryden, are we come to this ? That trash of such sort not alone evades Contempt, but from the bathos vast abyss Floats scumlike uppermost, and these Jack Cades Of sense and song above your graves may hiss — The "little boatman" and his "Peter Bell" Can sneer at him who drew "Achitophel !" T
Página 295 - He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But soon rose to the surface — like himself...