The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Last London Ed. Containing, Besides the Notes and Illustrations by Moore, Walter Scott, Campbell &c., Considerable Additions and Original Notes. To which is Prefixed a Life by Thomas MooreJ. Baer, 1846 |
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... turns of fun and oddity , than in any more elaborate exhibition of wit , that the pleasantry of his conversation ... turn his thoughts seriously to mar- riage , - at least as seriously as his thoughts were ever capable of being so ...
... turns of fun and oddity , than in any more elaborate exhibition of wit , that the pleasantry of his conversation ... turn his thoughts seriously to mar- riage , - at least as seriously as his thoughts were ever capable of being so ...
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... Turn to the few in Ida's early throng , Whose souls disdain not to condemn the wrong ; Or if , amidst the comrades of thy youth , None dare to raise the sterner voice of truth , Ask thine own heart ; ' twill bid thee , boy , forbear ...
... Turn to the few in Ida's early throng , Whose souls disdain not to condemn the wrong ; Or if , amidst the comrades of thy youth , None dare to raise the sterner voice of truth , Ask thine own heart ; ' twill bid thee , boy , forbear ...
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... turn ? And why call the thing in p . 79 a translation , where two words ( siw diyte ) of the original are expanded into four lines , and the other thing , in p . 81 , where μετονύκτιες ποι ' ώραις is rendered by means of six hobbling ...
... turn ? And why call the thing in p . 79 a translation , where two words ( siw diyte ) of the original are expanded into four lines , and the other thing , in p . 81 , where μετονύκτιες ποι ' ώραις is rendered by means of six hobbling ...
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... turn for punning , call it Attic salt ; To Jeffrey go , be silent and discreet , His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie , ' t will seem a sharper hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy , ' twill pass for wit ; Care not ...
... turn for punning , call it Attic salt ; To Jeffrey go , be silent and discreet , His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie , ' t will seem a sharper hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy , ' twill pass for wit ; Care not ...
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... Turn beef to bannocks , cauliflowers to kail . " [ sale , Thus having said , the kilted goddess kiss'd Her son , and vanish'd in a Scottish mist . ( 2 ) Then prosper , Jeffrey ! pertest of the train Whom Scotland pampers with her fiery ...
... Turn beef to bannocks , cauliflowers to kail . " [ sale , Thus having said , the kilted goddess kiss'd Her son , and vanish'd in a Scottish mist . ( 2 ) Then prosper , Jeffrey ! pertest of the train Whom Scotland pampers with her fiery ...
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Page 283 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 126 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 126 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 162 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ! Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 135 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, —'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Page 162 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 162 - His steps are not upon thy paths— thy fields Are not a spoil for him— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Page 163 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.
Page 158 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low- — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 126 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!