The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Volume 7J. Murray, 1873 |
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... knew not , nor shall know , Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below . XV . I said that like a picture by Giorgione Venetian women were , and so they are , Particularly seen from a balcony , ( For beauty's sometimes best set off afar ) ...
... knew not , nor shall know , Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below . XV . I said that like a picture by Giorgione Venetian women were , and so they are , Particularly seen from a balcony , ( For beauty's sometimes best set off afar ) ...
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... knew Music , and dancing , fiddling , French and Tuscan The last not easy , be it known to you , For few Italians speak the right Etruscan . He was a critic upon operas , too , And knew all niceties of sock and buskin ; And no Venetian ...
... knew Music , and dancing , fiddling , French and Tuscan The last not easy , be it known to you , For few Italians speak the right Etruscan . He was a critic upon operas , too , And knew all niceties of sock and buskin ; And no Venetian ...
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... knew not why , and cared not what , So that her female friends , with envy broiling , Beheld her airs and triumph , and all that ; And well - dress'd males still kept before her filing , And passing bow'd and mingled with her chat ...
... knew not why , and cared not what , So that her female friends , with envy broiling , Beheld her airs and triumph , and all that ; And well - dress'd males still kept before her filing , And passing bow'd and mingled with her chat ...
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... knew it would not do at all To meet the daylight after seven hours ' sitting Among three thousand people at a ball , To make her curtsy thought it right and fitting ; The Count was at her elbow with her shawl , And they the room were on ...
... knew it would not do at all To meet the daylight after seven hours ' sitting Among three thousand people at a ball , To make her curtsy thought it right and fitting ; The Count was at her elbow with her shawl , And they the room were on ...
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... knew no French ; and having obtained a grammar for the purpose of study , our friend Scrope Davies was asked what progress Brummell had made in French ; he responded , ' that Brummell had been stopped like Bonaparte in Russia , by the ...
... knew no French ; and having obtained a grammar for the purpose of study , our friend Scrope Davies was asked what progress Brummell had made in French ; he responded , ' that Brummell had been stopped like Bonaparte in Russia , by the ...
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Page 239 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they?
Page 16 - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. And sounds as if it should be writ on satin. With syllables which breathe of the sweet South. And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in. That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural. Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all.
Page 158 - And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Page 242 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 69 - I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one...
Page 146 - Well — well, the world must turn ; upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails. And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails...
Page 157 - At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been cast loose, That still could keep afloat the struggling tars...
Page 70 - in medias res', (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road) And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What went before — by way of episode, While seated after dinner at his ease, Beside his mistress in some soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavern, Which serves the happy couple for a tavern.
Page 117 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart 'Tis woman's whole existence...
Page 195 - They are right ; for man, to man so oft unjust, Is always so to women ; one sole bond Awaits them, treachery is all their trust ; Taught to conceal, their bursting hearts despond Over their idol, till some wealthier lust Buys them in marriage — and what rests beyond ? A thankless husband, next a faithless lover, Then dressing, nursing, praying, and all's over.