Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 13John Murray, 1833 - Poets, English |
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... Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely positive become the comprehensive genius of Shakspeare , and such censures are suitable to the minute and slender criticism of Voltaire : - -Non usque adeo permiscuit ...
... Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely positive become the comprehensive genius of Shakspeare , and such censures are suitable to the minute and slender criticism of Voltaire : - -Non usque adeo permiscuit ...
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... Venice , " inasmuch as his subject is one eminently adapted not only to tragedy in general , but to that peculiar kind of tragedy which Lord Byron is anxious to recommend . The history of the last of the Assyrian kings is at once ...
... Venice , " inasmuch as his subject is one eminently adapted not only to tragedy in general , but to that peculiar kind of tragedy which Lord Byron is anxious to recommend . The history of the last of the Assyrian kings is at once ...
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... Venice . Hermolao Donato , a Chief of the Ten , was murdered on his return from a sitting of that council , at his own door , by unknown hands . The magni- tude of the offence and the violation of the high dignity of the Ten de- manded ...
... Venice . Hermolao Donato , a Chief of the Ten , was murdered on his return from a sitting of that council , at his own door , by unknown hands . The magni- tude of the offence and the violation of the high dignity of the Ten de- manded ...
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... Venice to answer for the heavy crime of soliciting foreign intercession with his native government . " For a third time , Francesco Foscari listened to the accusation of his son ; for the first time he heard him openly avow the charge ...
... Venice to answer for the heavy crime of soliciting foreign intercession with his native government . " For a third time , Francesco Foscari listened to the accusation of his son ; for the first time he heard him openly avow the charge ...
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... Venice , on his return to the capital , headed the political faction which opposed the warlike pro- jects of the Doge ; divided applause with him by his eloquence in the councils ; and so far extended his influence as frequently to ...
... Venice , on his return to the capital , headed the political faction which opposed the warlike pro- jects of the Doge ; divided applause with him by his eloquence in the councils ; and so far extended his influence as frequently to ...
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Aholibamah Anah Arbaces ARNOLD Assyria aught Bactria BARBARIGO bear beauty behold Beleses better blood Bourb Bourbon breath brother Cæs Cæsar Chief dare death Doge dost thou ducal dungeon earth Enter eternal Euphrates Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel foes Foscari Francesco Foscari Giacopo glory Guard hath hear heart heaven HEBER hence hour Irad Japh Japhet king leave less live look Lord Byron Loredano Marina monarch mortal mountains Myrrha ne'er never Nineveh Noah noble o'er Offi palace PANIA passion Pietro Loredano pray prince rebels Rome Salemenes Sardanapalus satraps SCENE Semiramis signor sire slave Soldiers son of Noah soul speak spirit stars Stran sword tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought true twas unto Venice walls weep wilt word wouldst
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Page 318 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world : his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty...
Page 1 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 321 - Whosoever hath any thing fixed in his person that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn.
Page 57 - TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OF A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE LORD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITERS, WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND ILLUSTRATED THAT OF EUROPE.
Page 46 - Let it suffice thee that thou know'st Us happy, and without love no happiness. Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy'st (And pure thou wert created) we enjoy In eminence, and obstacle find none Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclusive bars; Easier than air with air, if spirits embrace, Total they mix, union of pure with pure Desiring...
Page 61 - Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me; before such authorities I am afraid to stand, not that I think the present question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority, but because it is to be suspected that these precepts have not been so easily received but for better reasons than I have yet been able to find.
Page 161 - I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse — borne away with every breath ! Misplaced upon the throne — misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be— let it cud.
Page 61 - I cannot think it much to be lamented, that they were not known by him, or not observed : nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus. Such violations of rules merely positive, become the comprehensive genius of...
Page 61 - ... and that he at last deliberately persisted in a practice, which he might have begun by chance. As nothing is essential to the fable but unity of action, and...
Page 367 - The spring is come ; the violet's gone, The first-born child of the early sun ; With us she is but a winter's flower, The snow on the hills cannot blast her bower. And she lifts up her dewy eye of blue To the youngest sky of the self-same hue.