Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A RomauntH. C. Baird, 1856 - 339 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 33
Page 35
... heard on Andalusia's shore . XXXVIII . Hark ! heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note ? Sounds not the clang of conflict on the heath ? Count Julian forgot the duties of a Christian and a patriot , and , forming an alliance with Musa ...
... heard on Andalusia's shore . XXXVIII . Hark ! heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note ? Sounds not the clang of conflict on the heath ? Count Julian forgot the duties of a Christian and a patriot , and , forming an alliance with Musa ...
Page 37
... heard wonders of the Portuguese lately , and their gallantry . Pray Heaven it continue ; yet would it were bedtime , Hal , and all were well ! ' They must fight a great many hours , by Shrewsbury clock , ' before the number of their ...
... heard wonders of the Portuguese lately , and their gallantry . Pray Heaven it continue ; yet would it were bedtime , Hal , and all were well ! ' They must fight a great many hours , by Shrewsbury clock , ' before the number of their ...
Page 38
... heard clipping bad Spanish , after listening to the speech of a patriotic cobbler of Cadiz , on the event of his own entry into that city , and the exit of some five thousand bold Britons out of this best of all possible worlds ...
... heard clipping bad Spanish , after listening to the speech of a patriotic cobbler of Cadiz , on the event of his own entry into that city , and the exit of some five thousand bold Britons out of this best of all possible worlds ...
Page 41
... heard many of them : some of the airs are beautiful . Don Manuel Godoy , the Principe de la Paz , of an ancient but decayed family , was born at Badajoz , on the frontiers of Portugal , and was originally in the ranks of the Spanish ...
... heard many of them : some of the airs are beautiful . Don Manuel Godoy , the Principe de la Paz , of an ancient but decayed family , was born at Badajoz , on the frontiers of Portugal , and was originally in the ranks of the Spanish ...
Page 44
... Heard her light , lively tones in lady's bower , Seen her long locks that foil the painter's power , Her fairy form , with more than female grace , Scarce would you deem that Saragoza's tower Beheld her smile in Danger's Gorgon face ...
... Heard her light , lively tones in lady's bower , Seen her long locks that foil the painter's power , Her fairy form , with more than female grace , Scarce would you deem that Saragoza's tower Beheld her smile in Danger's Gorgon face ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alban hill Albanians amongst ancient Ariosto Athens beauty behold beneath better blood Boccaccio bosom breast Cæsar Calf antique called CANTO charms Childe Harold CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE church Cicero Cloth extra Constantinople dark death deem'd deep earth edition Egeria fair fame feel foes French gaze gilt gondoliers Greece Greek Half calf hand hath heart heaven hills Historical Notes honour hope hour Illustrated immortal Italian Italy Julius Cæsar lake land light Lord Byron maid mind moroc mortal mountains ne'er never o'er once palace pass passion Petrarch plain poem poet Pouqueville rock Roman Rome ruins says scene seems seen shore sigh smile song soul spirit spot stanza Tasso tears temple thee thine thing thou thought tion tomb traveller Turk Venetians Venice volume walls waves wild woes wolf
Popular passages
Page 249 - twas a pleasing fear; For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane, — as I do here.
Page 127 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet...
Page 186 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains ; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest...
Page 247 - His steps are not upon thy paths — thy fields Are not a spoil for him — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray, And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Page 140 - Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
Page 129 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 178 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy!
Page 109 - tis haunted, holy ground, No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon: Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Page 160 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page 156 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty, and a mystery, and create G In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.