And if we do but watch the hour, T Of him who treasures up a wrong. Mazeppa. Stanza 10. In a great cause. Marino Faliero, Act ii. Sc. 2. Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, I loved my country, and I hated him. The Vision of Judgment. lxxxiii. Sublime tobacco! which from east to west i The Island, Canto ii. Stanza 19. Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripê; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties give me a cigar!: My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! Ibid. On my Thirty-sixth Year. Brave men were living before Agamemnon.1 Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 6. In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual, Stanza 17. Inform us truly,have they not henpeck'd you all? 1 Vixerunt fortes ante Agamemnona Stanza 22 Multi. HORACE: Ode iv. 9. 25. The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 40. Her stature tall, I hate a dumpy woman. Stanza 61. Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded Stanza 83. And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented. Stanza 117. 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark My dear, I was the first who came away." Stanza 141. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; "T is woman's whole existence. Stanza 194. In my hot youth, when George the Third was king. Stanza 212. So for a good old-gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice.1 Stanza 216. What is the end of fame? "Tis but to fill Stanza 218. Canto ii. Stanza 14. There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms Stanza 34. 1 See Middleton, page 173. ་ A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 53. All who joy would win Must share it, happiness was born a twin. Stanza 172. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth and love. Alas, the love of women! it is known In her first passion woman loves her lover: He was the mildest manner'd man Eternal summer gilds them yet, Stanza 178. Stanza 186 Stanza 199. Canto iii. Stanza 3. Stanza 41. Stanza 86. 1. 1 Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l'amour. — ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maxim 471. Of two such lessons, why forget. The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave, Think ye he meant them for a slave? Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 10. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Stanza 86. 16. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns, And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Stanza 88. Stanza 108. "T is that I may not weep. Canto it. Stanza 4. The precious porcelain of human clay." Stanza 11. "Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore." Perhaps the early grave Stanza 12. Which men weep over may be meant to save. Ibid. And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage. "Arcades ambo," id est, blackguards both. - I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, Stanza 29. Stanza 93. Stanza 93. And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome. 1 See Shakespeare, page 63. 2 See Dryden, page 277. 3 See Wordsworth, page 479. Stanza 101. 4 All her innocent thoughts Like rose-leaves scatter'd... JOHN WILSON: On the Death of a Child. (1812) Oh "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!"1 Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 110 There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, But all have prices, Canto v. Stanza 5. From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.2 And puts himself upon his good behaviour. The women pardon'd all except her face. Stanza 27. Stanza 47. Stanza 49. Stanza 113. Canto vi. Stanza 7. A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase Stanza 78. Canto viii. Stanza 3. Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt Stanza 18. What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman! Canto ix. Stanza 64. And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter. Oh for a forty-parson power! 1 See Southey, page 507. 2 See Robert Walpole, page 304. Canto x. Stanza 24. Stanza 34 |