Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy, Volumen1Henry Colburn, 1828 - 440 páginas |
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... feeling of the first taste of comfort ( a novelty unknown for years ) , and the very dread of seeing this new piece of rose - colour in my existence vanish before the re - exertion of my brain and the ink - spots it produces between me ...
... feeling of the first taste of comfort ( a novelty unknown for years ) , and the very dread of seeing this new piece of rose - colour in my existence vanish before the re - exertion of my brain and the ink - spots it produces between me ...
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... feeling , whether I had told the world of it or not . Besides , Lord Byron was not candid with me . He suffered himself to take mea- sures , and be open to representations , in which I was concerned , without letting me know : and I ...
... feeling , whether I had told the world of it or not . Besides , Lord Byron was not candid with me . He suffered himself to take mea- sures , and be open to representations , in which I was concerned , without letting me know : and I ...
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... feel them more than I ought . It is in the nature of things for those who differ with society , to be misconceived even by the best men , who are not very discern- ing : how much more must they reckon upon the attacks and mis ...
... feel them more than I ought . It is in the nature of things for those who differ with society , to be misconceived even by the best men , who are not very discern- ing : how much more must they reckon upon the attacks and mis ...
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... feel it to be their interest that he should ; and they learn even to bring out their vir- tues at the warmth of his belief in virtue . But meanwhile it is only by an effort of generosity , that any man implicated in the present state of ...
... feel it to be their interest that he should ; and they learn even to bring out their vir- tues at the warmth of his belief in virtue . But meanwhile it is only by an effort of generosity , that any man implicated in the present state of ...
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... feel prouder than self - knowledge will allow me to feel with any thing more my own . The writer in the Athenæum , ( whose re- marks I had not entirely seen till the rest of this preface had been written , ) has offered me advice on one ...
... feel prouder than self - knowledge will allow me to feel with any thing more my own . The writer in the Athenæum , ( whose re- marks I had not entirely seen till the rest of this preface had been written , ) has offered me advice on one ...
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acquaintance admired afterwards Albaro appeared Bard Baubo Bay of Spezia beauty believe body called compliment confess connexion contradiction critics DEAR HUNT delight Don Juan doubt England English eyes fancy Faust feel genius Genoa gentleman give Goethe good-humoured Greece Hazlitt heart honour hope intercourse Italian Italy Keats kind knew lady Lady Byron laugh least Leghorn Leigh Hunt Lerici less letters Liberal lived look Lord Byron Lord Holland Lordship Madame Guiccioli manner matter mean Meph mistake Moore moral nature never noble occasion opinion Parisina passage passion perhaps person Pisa pleasure poem poet poetical poetry politics pretended reader reason respect Rimini seemed sense Shelley Shelley's sincerity sort speak spirit spleen talk tell thing thou thought tion told took truth Via Reggio wish word write written young
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Página 435 - Ode to a Nightingale MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Página 436 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 446 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 437 - Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Página 437 - Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?
Página 434 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Página 428 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device...
Página 340 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Página 364 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 419 - Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public.— What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished.'— Preface, p.