The works of lord ByronBernh. Tauchnitz., 1826 |
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... human nature , which would have done credit to a writer of matured experience and confirmed reputation . It is true , that in this satire he attacked some . whom he afterwards found did not deserve it ; but it is equally true that he ...
... human nature , which would have done credit to a writer of matured experience and confirmed reputation . It is true , that in this satire he attacked some . whom he afterwards found did not deserve it ; but it is equally true that he ...
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... human heart , and delinea tions of human passion and frailty which were drawn both to and wit the life , and therefore threw all those who dreaded exposure into th most serious alarm . There was much more both of politics and of per ...
... human heart , and delinea tions of human passion and frailty which were drawn both to and wit the life , and therefore threw all those who dreaded exposure into th most serious alarm . There was much more both of politics and of per ...
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... human intellect and ex- ertion , he was cut off in the prime of life , and at the very commencement of his heroic career . The circumstances which induced him to embark in the Greek cause it would be idle to investigate ; the advantages ...
... human intellect and ex- ertion , he was cut off in the prime of life , and at the very commencement of his heroic career . The circumstances which induced him to embark in the Greek cause it would be idle to investigate ; the advantages ...
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... human life , and sounded every string on the divine harp , from its slightest to its most powerful and heart ... humanity , as in olden time it would have been an atonement for the blackest crimes , may in th present be allowed to ...
... human life , and sounded every string on the divine harp , from its slightest to its most powerful and heart ... humanity , as in olden time it would have been an atonement for the blackest crimes , may in th present be allowed to ...
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... human hearts - to what ? -a dream alone . Can despots compass aught that hails their sway ? Or call with truth one span of earth their own , Save that wherein at last they crumble bone by bone ? Oh , Albuera ! glorious field of grief ...
... human hearts - to what ? -a dream alone . Can despots compass aught that hails their sway ? Or call with truth one span of earth their own , Save that wherein at last they crumble bone by bone ? Oh , Albuera ! glorious field of grief ...
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Page 62 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 56 - Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday— All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged? Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 62 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd...
Page 135 - None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think.
Page 135 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the sun Creeping as it before had done, But through the crevice where it came...
Page 20 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 49 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.
Page 576 - TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain...
Page 584 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Page 171 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.