The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, by Thomas Moore, Esq, Volume 2John Murray, 1832 - Poets, English |
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... Lady M. W. Montague , Hawkins's Translation from Mignot's History of the Turks , the Arabian Nights , all travels , or histories , or books upon the East I could meet with , I had read , as well as Rycaut , before I was ten years old ...
... Lady M. W. Montague , Hawkins's Translation from Mignot's History of the Turks , the Arabian Nights , all travels , or histories , or books upon the East I could meet with , I had read , as well as Rycaut , before I was ten years old ...
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... lady's life , that a fit of rage , brought on , it is said , by reading over the up- holsterer's bills , was the ultimate cause of her death . Lord Byron had , of course , prompt intelligence of the attack . But , though he started ...
... lady's life , that a fit of rage , brought on , it is said , by reading over the up- holsterer's bills , was the ultimate cause of her death . Lord Byron had , of course , prompt intelligence of the attack . But , though he started ...
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... lady lay , heard a sound as of some one sighing heavily from within ; and , on entering the chamber , found , to her surprise , Lord Byron , sitting in the dark , beside the bed . On her repre- senting to him the weakness of thus giving ...
... lady lay , heard a sound as of some one sighing heavily from within ; and , on entering the chamber , found , to her surprise , Lord Byron , sitting in the dark , beside the bed . On her repre- senting to him the weakness of thus giving ...
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... lady herself , as to the degree of influence her temper and conduct may have ex- ercised on those of her son . It was said by one of the most extraordinary of men * , - who was himself , as he avowed , principally indebted to maternal ...
... lady herself , as to the degree of influence her temper and conduct may have ex- ercised on those of her son . It was said by one of the most extraordinary of men * , - who was himself , as he avowed , principally indebted to maternal ...
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... ladies , and I have stolen away to write this grumbling letter . - I don't know that I sha'n't end with insanity , for I find a want of method in ar- ranging my thoughts that perplexes me strangely ; but this looks more like silliness ...
... ladies , and I have stolen away to write this grumbling letter . - I don't know that I sha'n't end with insanity , for I find a want of method in ar- ranging my thoughts that perplexes me strangely ; but this looks more like silliness ...
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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 273 - Asiatics are not qualified to be republicans, but they have the liberty of demolishing despots, which is the next thing to it. To be the first man — not the Dictator — not the Sylla, but the Washington or the Aristides — the leader in talent and truth — is next to the Divinity ! Franklin, Penn, and, next to these, either Brutus or Cassius — even Mirabeau — or St. Just. I shall never be any thing, or rathe"r always be nothing. The most I can hope is, that some will my, ' He might, perhaps,...
Page 127 - ... from the days of Draco to the present time. After feeling the pulse and shaking the head over the patient, prescribing the usual course of warm water and bleeding, the warm water of your mawkish police, and the lancets of your military, these convulsions must terminate in death, the sure consummation of the prescriptions of all political Sangrados.
Page 216 - I am no bigot to infidelity, and did not expect that, because I doubted the immortality of man, I should be charged with denying the existence of a God. It was the comparative insignificance of ourselves and our world, when placed in comparison with the mighty whole, of which it is an atom, that first led me to imagine that our pretensions to eternity might be over-rated.
Page 285 - 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 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* might excuse.