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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... wish- ed to make amends for loss of time : the plan of the book became altered ; and I fi- nally made up my mind to enlarge and enrich it with an account of Lord Byron . It had been wondered , when I returned to England , how it was ...
... wish- ed to make amends for loss of time : the plan of the book became altered ; and I fi- nally made up my mind to enlarge and enrich it with an account of Lord Byron . It had been wondered , when I returned to England , how it was ...
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... wish to love a man , and to find the enthusiasm of this long- ing worse than repelled . It was the death of my friend Shelley , and my own want of re- sources , that made me add this bitter discovery to the sum of my experience . The ...
... wish to love a man , and to find the enthusiasm of this long- ing worse than repelled . It was the death of my friend Shelley , and my own want of re- sources , that made me add this bitter discovery to the sum of my experience . The ...
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... wish it had never been writ- ten . I have other reasons also for the regret , which are not so easy of explanation ; though I should have entered very freely into them , had the hostility I have provoked taken a more ge- nerous xvi ...
... wish it had never been writ- ten . I have other reasons also for the regret , which are not so easy of explanation ; though I should have entered very freely into them , had the hostility I have provoked taken a more ge- nerous xvi ...
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... wish to be thought ill of by any body ; and the fault ( singularly enough ) is at variance with what I have said against it in the book , when I speak of some of my . former writings . But even this inconsistency may serve to show , how ...
... wish to be thought ill of by any body ; and the fault ( singularly enough ) is at variance with what I have said against it in the book , when I speak of some of my . former writings . But even this inconsistency may serve to show , how ...
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... , have been per- suaded by him to return , had there been as much love , or even address , on his side , as there was a wish to believe in his merit on her's , it is no wonder that others , whom she had 10 LORD BYRON .
... , have been per- suaded by him to return , had there been as much love , or even address , on his side , as there was a wish to believe in his merit on her's , it is no wonder that others , whom she had 10 LORD BYRON .
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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.