Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A RomauntH. C. Baird, 1856 - 339 pages |
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... memory . So much for chivalry . Burke need not have regretted that its days are over , though Marie- Antoinette was quite as chaste as most of those in whose honours lances were shivered , and knights unhorsed . Before the days of ...
... memory . So much for chivalry . Burke need not have regretted that its days are over , though Marie- Antoinette was quite as chaste as most of those in whose honours lances were shivered , and knights unhorsed . Before the days of ...
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... memory may desire ; Though more than Hope can claim , could Friend- ship less require ? 1 [ Peri , the Persian term for a beautiful intermediate order of beings , is generally supposed to be another form of our own word Fairy . ] " [ A ...
... memory may desire ; Though more than Hope can claim , could Friend- ship less require ? 1 [ Peri , the Persian term for a beautiful intermediate order of beings , is generally supposed to be another form of our own word Fairy . ] " [ A ...
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... memory of some deadly feud Or disappointed passion lurk❜d below : But this none knew , nor haply cared to know ; For his was not that open , artless soul That feels relief by bidding sorrow flow , Nor sought he friend to counsel or ...
... memory of some deadly feud Or disappointed passion lurk❜d below : But this none knew , nor haply cared to know ; For his was not that open , artless soul That feels relief by bidding sorrow flow , Nor sought he friend to counsel or ...
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... memory of his mag- nificence was fresh at the period of Lord Byron's pilgrimage . Returning to England , he realized all the outward shows of Gothic grandeur in his unsubstantial pageant of Fonthill Abbey ; and has more recently been ...
... memory of his mag- nificence was fresh at the period of Lord Byron's pilgrimage . Returning to England , he realized all the outward shows of Gothic grandeur in his unsubstantial pageant of Fonthill Abbey ; and has more recently been ...
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... memory , are said , by Cervantes , never to bestow that name upon any human female , reserving it for their dogs . " - SIR WALTER SCOTT , Poetical Works , vol . ix . p . 375. ] Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote ; Nor CANTO I. 35 ...
... memory , are said , by Cervantes , never to bestow that name upon any human female , reserving it for their dogs . " - SIR WALTER SCOTT , Poetical Works , vol . ix . p . 375. ] Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote ; Nor CANTO I. 35 ...
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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.