The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, by Thomas Moore, Esq, Volume 17J. Murray, 1833 - Poets, English |
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... virtues in a writer , because they make him write in earnest . ( 2 ) [ It has been , injuriously for him , too extensively held among mo- dern writers , that Plutarch was to be considered as an historian whose authority might be quoted ...
... virtues in a writer , because they make him write in earnest . ( 2 ) [ It has been , injuriously for him , too extensively held among mo- dern writers , that Plutarch was to be considered as an historian whose authority might be quoted ...
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... virtue's primrose paths of snows ; And then men stare , as if a new ass spake To Balaam , and from tongue to ear o'erflows Quicksilver small talk , ending ( if you note it ) With the kind world's amen- " Who would have thought it ...
... virtue's primrose paths of snows ; And then men stare , as if a new ass spake To Balaam , and from tongue to ear o'erflows Quicksilver small talk , ending ( if you note it ) With the kind world's amen- " Who would have thought it ...
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... virtues of high station , Even in the hopeful Isle , whose outlet's " Dover ! ' While the poor rich wretch , object of these cares , Has cause to wish her sire had had male heirs . XXXIV . Some are soon bagg'd , and some reject three ...
... virtues of high station , Even in the hopeful Isle , whose outlet's " Dover ! ' While the poor rich wretch , object of these cares , Has cause to wish her sire had had male heirs . XXXIV . Some are soon bagg'd , and some reject three ...
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... of the world , and sense Of the sad consequence of going astray , Are wiser in their warnings ' gainst the woe Which the mere passionless can never know . XLV . While the harsh prude indemnifies her virtue By E 4 CANTO XII . 55 DON JUAN .
... of the world , and sense Of the sad consequence of going astray , Are wiser in their warnings ' gainst the woe Which the mere passionless can never know . XLV . While the harsh prude indemnifies her virtue By E 4 CANTO XII . 55 DON JUAN .
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... virtue By railing at the unknown and envied passion , Seeking far less to save you than to hurt you , Or , what's still worse , to put you out of fashion , — The kinder veteran with calm words will court you , Entreating you to pause ...
... virtue By railing at the unknown and envied passion , Seeking far less to save you than to hurt you , Or , what's still worse , to put you out of fashion , — The kinder veteran with calm words will court you , Entreating you to pause ...
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Adieu Amundeville antè Atalantis Aurora beauties Blackwood's Magazine call'd CANTO chaste coruscation dames dance devil dinner Don Juan Don Quixote doth doubt dread e'er eyes fair fame feelings Friar gainst gentle ghost gout grace gynocracy hate hath heard heart heaven heroes human John Bull Juan's king knew Lady Adeline late least leave less look look'd Lord Byron Lord Henry LXXIII LXXVI LXXXV Macbeth mankind marriage matter mind misanthropy Miss moral Muse nations nature ne'er never noble nought o'er once pass'd passion Perhaps poet praise pretty pride ragoût rhyme sage scarce seem'd seen Shooter's Hill slight smile sometimes soul spirit stood strange sublime sweet Sweet Adeline tell thee there's things thou thought true truth turn'd twas twill unto virtue what's wish wish'd wonder XVII young youth
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Page 171 - She gazed upon a world she scarcely knew As seeking not to know it ; silent, lone, As grows a flower, thus quietly she grew, And kept her heart serene within its zone. There was awe in the homage which she drew ; Her spirit seem'd as seated on a throne Apart from the surrounding world, and strong In its own strength — most strange in one so young!
Page 98 - Amidst the court a Gothic fountain play'd, Symmetrical, but deck'd with carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint: The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.
Page 12 - I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds, and gloomy imaginations; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy...
Page 195 - I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 3 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Page 96 - But in a higher niche, alone, but crown'd, The Virgin -Mother of the God-born Child, With her Son in her blessed arms, look'd round, Spared by some chance when all beside was spoil'd : She made the earth below seem holy ground. This may be superstition, weak or wild, But even the faintest relics of a shrine Of any worship wake some thoughts divine.
Page 70 - I pretend to enumerate all he said on the subject ; but it may give you pleasure to hear that it was conveyed in language which would only suffer by my attempting to transcribe it, and with a tone and taste which gave me a very high idea of his abilities and accomplishments, which I had hitherto considered as confined to manners, certainly superior to those of any living gentleman, " This interview was accidental.
Page 35 - But how shall I relate, in other cantos, Of what befell our hero, in the land Which 'tis the common cry and lie to vaunt, as A moral country...
Page 24 - Has taken for a swan rogue Southey's gander. John Keats, who was kill'd off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, without Greek Contrived to talk about the gods of late Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow ! His was an untoward fate ; 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
Page 54 - But now I'm going to be immoral ; now I mean to show things really as they are, Not as they. ought to be : for I avow, That till we see what's what in fact, we're far From much improvement with that virtuous plough Which skims the surface, leaving scarce a scar Upon the black loam long manured by Vice, Only to keep its corn at the old price.