The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,John Murray, 1833 |
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... passage homeward , how far from cheerful or happy was the state of mind in which he returned . In truth , even for a disposition of the most san- guine cast , there was quite enough in the discom- forts that now awaited him in England ...
... passage homeward , how far from cheerful or happy was the state of mind in which he returned . In truth , even for a disposition of the most san- guine cast , there was quite enough in the discom- forts that now awaited him in England ...
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... passages from the Para- phrase as may seem calculated to give an idea as well of its merits as its defects . - The opening of the poem is , with reference to the original , ingenious : - " Who would not laugh , if Lawrence , hired to ...
... passages from the Para- phrase as may seem calculated to give an idea as well of its merits as its defects . - The opening of the poem is , with reference to the original , ingenious : - " Who would not laugh , if Lawrence , hired to ...
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... passage throughout the Paraphrase : — " Awake a louder and a loftier strain , ' And , pray , what follows from his boiling brain ? He sinks to S✶✶'s level in a trice , Whose epic mountains never fail in mice ! - " Mac Flecknoe , the ...
... passage throughout the Paraphrase : — " Awake a louder and a loftier strain , ' And , pray , what follows from his boiling brain ? He sinks to S✶✶'s level in a trice , Whose epic mountains never fail in mice ! - " Mac Flecknoe , the ...
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... passage , with the humorous note ap- pended to it , will complete the whole amount of my favourable specimens : — " And that's enough · then write and print so fast , If Satan take the hindmost , who'd be last ? They storm the types ...
... passage , with the humorous note ap- pended to it , will complete the whole amount of my favourable specimens : — " And that's enough · then write and print so fast , If Satan take the hindmost , who'd be last ? They storm the types ...
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... passage in one of his journals : " Like Sylla , I have always believed that all things depend upon for- tune , and nothing upon ourselves . I am not aware of any one thought or action worthy of being called good to myself or others ...
... passage in one of his journals : " Like Sylla , I have always believed that all things depend upon for- tune , and nothing upon ourselves . I am not aware of any one thought or action worthy of being called good to myself or others ...
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Page 316 - Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray...
Page 192 - Fair clime! where every season smiles Benignant o'er those blessed isles, Which, seen from far Colonna's height, Make glad the heart that hails the sight, And lend to loneliness delight. There mildly dimpling, Ocean's cheek Reflects the tints of many a peak Caught by the laughing tides that lave These Edens of the Eastern wave...
Page 270 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 11 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Page 311 - I hate odds, and wish he may beat them. As for me, by the blessing of indifference, I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments...
Page 233 - I have said nothing, either, of the brilliant sex ; but the fact is, I am at this moment in a far more serious, and entirely new, scrape than any of the last twelve months, — and that is saying a good deal. It is unlucky we can neither live with nor without these women.
Page 286 - ... as the last breath of Brutus pronounced, and every day proves it. He is, perhaps, a little opiniated, as all men who are the centre of circles, wide or narrow — the Sir Oracles, in whose name two or three are gathered together — must be, and as even Johnson was ; but, withal, a valuable man, and less vain than success and even the consciousness of preferring ' the right to the expedient
Page 285 - What an odd situation and friendship is ours ! — without one spark of love on either side, and produced by circumstances which in general lead to coldness on one side, and aversion on the other. She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled, which is strange in an heiress — a girl of twenty — a peeress that is to be, in her own right — an only child, and a savante, who has always had her own way.
Page 32 - My poor mother died yesterday ! and I am on my way from town to attend her to the family vault. I heard one day of her illness, the next of her death. Thank God her last moments were most tranquil. I am told she was in little pain, and not aware of her situation. I now feel the truth of Mr. Gray's observation, ' That we can only have one mother.
Page 157 - He jested, he talked, he did every thing admirably, but then he would be applauded for the same thing twice over. He would read his own verses, his own paragraph, and tell, his own story again and again ; and then the ' Trial by Jury ! ! !' I almost wished it abolished, for I sat next him at dinner. As I had read his published speeches, there was no occasion to repeat them to me.