The Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and JournalsJohn Murray, 1851 - 735 oldal |
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... hand of his minstrel by death . ' It has been said of Lord Byron , that " he was | prouder of being a descendant of those Byrons of Normandy , who accompanied William the Conqueror into England , than of having been the author of Childe ...
... hand of his minstrel by death . ' It has been said of Lord Byron , that " he was | prouder of being a descendant of those Byrons of Normandy , who accompanied William the Conqueror into England , than of having been the author of Childe ...
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... hand was soon paid away , - the bank shares were disposed of at 6007. , ( now worth 50007. ) -timber on the estate was cut down and sold to the amount of 15002.- the farm of Monkshill and superiority of the fishings , affording a ...
... hand was soon paid away , - the bank shares were disposed of at 6007. , ( now worth 50007. ) -timber on the estate was cut down and sold to the amount of 15002.- the farm of Monkshill and superiority of the fishings , affording a ...
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... hands , rent it from top to bottom , and stood in sullen stillness , setting his censurer and her wrath at ance ... hand , he exclaimed impatiently , 66 Dinna speak of it ! " Sometimes , how- ever , as in after life , he could talk ...
... hands , rent it from top to bottom , and stood in sullen stillness , setting his censurer and her wrath at ance ... hand , he exclaimed impatiently , 66 Dinna speak of it ! " Sometimes , how- ever , as in after life , he could talk ...
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... hand , he was pacific and I savage ; so I fought for him , or thrashed others for him , or thrashed himself to make him thrash others when it was necessary , as a point of honour and stature , that he should so chastise ; or we talked ...
... hand , he was pacific and I savage ; so I fought for him , or thrashed others for him , or thrashed himself to make him thrash others when it was necessary , as a point of honour and stature , that he should so chastise ; or we talked ...
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... hand , the following memorial : - " George Gordon Byron , Wednesday , June 26th , A. D. 1805 , 3 quarters of an hour past 3 o'clock in the afternoon , 3d school , — Calvert , monitor ; Tom Wildman on my left hand and Long on my right ...
... hand , the following memorial : - " George Gordon Byron , Wednesday , June 26th , A. D. 1805 , 3 quarters of an hour past 3 o'clock in the afternoon , 3d school , — Calvert , monitor ; Tom Wildman on my left hand and Long on my right ...
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306. oldal - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered, walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, 1 Memoirs, p. 166. and all nature was silent.
306. oldal - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
65. oldal - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
303. oldal - I blame not the world, nor despise it, Nor the war of the many with one : If my soul was not fitted to prize it...
156. oldal - I have traversed the seat of war in the peninsula ; I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey; but never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, did] I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return, in the very heart of a Christian country.
198. oldal - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
320. oldal - The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive.
213. oldal - Whatever Sheridan has done or chosen to do has been, par excellence, always the best of its kind. He has written the best comedy (School for Scandal), the -best drama (in my mind, far before that St.
303. oldal - Because it reminds me of thine ; And when winds are at war with the ocean, As the breasts I believed in with me, If their billows excite an emotion, It is that they bear me from thee.
21. oldal - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...