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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... not have put an end to the good understanding between us ; so genuine indeed is his love of truth , violently as his passions may sometimes lead him to mistake it . some things , while they are all over humanity in X PREFACE .
... not have put an end to the good understanding between us ; so genuine indeed is his love of truth , violently as his passions may sometimes lead him to mistake it . some things , while they are all over humanity in X PREFACE .
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... mistakes we may commit in our own self - knowledge . I , for one , willingly concede that the reader may know me better than myself , and punish me in his thought accord- ingly . Let me have only the benefit of the concession . I have ...
... mistakes we may commit in our own self - knowledge . I , for one , willingly concede that the reader may know me better than myself , and punish me in his thought accord- ingly . Let me have only the benefit of the concession . I have ...
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... mistake and calumny meanwhile , by reflecting , that calumny itself is but a part of mistake ; and that in thinking myself nei- ther a bit better nor worse than any other man ( which is what I think of all men , for they are all ...
... mistake and calumny meanwhile , by reflecting , that calumny itself is but a part of mistake ; and that in thinking myself nei- ther a bit better nor worse than any other man ( which is what I think of all men , for they are all ...
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... tendency to laugh as puts me to the torture ; whereas I have never known an Italian's gravity disturbed by the most ludi- crous mistakes , but in one instance , and then it was the idea and not the word that discom- 38 LORD BYRON .
... tendency to laugh as puts me to the torture ; whereas I have never known an Italian's gravity disturbed by the most ludi- crous mistakes , but in one instance , and then it was the idea and not the word that discom- 38 LORD BYRON .
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... mistakes with an unconscious look , as if they were proper expressions . I remember walking once with my young acquaintance , Luigi Gianetti , of Pisa , all the way from Florence to Maiano , and holding a long ethi- cal discourse on the ...
... mistakes with an unconscious look , as if they were proper expressions . I remember walking once with my young acquaintance , Luigi Gianetti , of Pisa , all the way from Florence to Maiano , and holding a long ethi- cal discourse on the ...
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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.