The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life |
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... wrote much better then than I have ever done since . Haste and agitation of one kind or another have quite spoilt as pretty a scrawl as ever scratched over a frank . The grammar- school might consist of a 150 , of all ages under age ...
... wrote much better then than I have ever done since . Haste and agitation of one kind or another have quite spoilt as pretty a scrawl as ever scratched over a frank . The grammar- school might consist of a 150 , of all ages under age ...
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... wrote these remarkable lines : - " My epitaph shall be my name alone ; If that with honour fail to crown my clay , Oh may no other fame my deeds repay ! That , only that , shall single out the spot , By that remember'd , or with that ...
... wrote these remarkable lines : - " My epitaph shall be my name alone ; If that with honour fail to crown my clay , Oh may no other fame my deeds repay ! That , only that , shall single out the spot , By that remember'd , or with that ...
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... wrote those verses entitled " The Cornelian , " which were printed in his first , unpublished volume , and of which the following is a stanza : " Some , who can sneer at friendship's ties Have for my weakness oft reproved me ; Yet still ...
... wrote those verses entitled " The Cornelian , " which were printed in his first , unpublished volume , and of which the following is a stanza : " Some , who can sneer at friendship's ties Have for my weakness oft reproved me ; Yet still ...
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... wrote me on leaving college to join the Guards , was as melancholy in its tenour as it could well be on such an occasion . But he showed nothing of this in his deportment , being mild and gentle ; —and yet with much turn for the ...
... wrote me on leaving college to join the Guards , was as melancholy in its tenour as it could well be on such an occasion . But he showed nothing of this in his deportment , being mild and gentle ; —and yet with much turn for the ...
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... wrote - making allowance for the embellishments of fancy - the transcript of his actual life and feelings , that it is not easy to sup- pose a poem so full of natural tenderness to have been indebted for its origin to imagination alone ...
... wrote - making allowance for the embellishments of fancy - the transcript of his actual life and feelings , that it is not easy to sup- pose a poem so full of natural tenderness to have been indebted for its origin to imagination alone ...
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