Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord ByronJ. Robins and Company, 1825 - 756 pages |
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... youth , ordained to die , A votive pilgrim in Judea's clime . But not from thee , dark pile ! departs the chief ; His feudal realm in other regions lay ; In thee the wounded conscience courts relief , Retiring from the garish blaze of ...
... youth , ordained to die , A votive pilgrim in Judea's clime . But not from thee , dark pile ! departs the chief ; His feudal realm in other regions lay ; In thee the wounded conscience courts relief , Retiring from the garish blaze of ...
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... youth with pleasure to record . ' 6 It was for this reason , probably , that he neither distinguished himself much at Harrow nor at Trinity College , Cambridge , whither he went on his leaving the former school . His impatience of every ...
... youth with pleasure to record . ' 6 It was for this reason , probably , that he neither distinguished himself much at Harrow nor at Trinity College , Cambridge , whither he went on his leaving the former school . His impatience of every ...
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... youth and virtue claim a short delay , Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey ; Thou still hadst lived to bless my aching sight , Thy comrade's honour , and thy friend's delight . If yet thy gentle spirit hover nigh The spot where ...
... youth and virtue claim a short delay , Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey ; Thou still hadst lived to bless my aching sight , Thy comrade's honour , and thy friend's delight . If yet thy gentle spirit hover nigh The spot where ...
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... the maid , From her eyelid he kisses the Tear . Sweet scene of my youth , Seat of friendship and truth , Where love chased each fast - fleeting year Loath to leave thee , I mourn'd , For a THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF LORD BYRON . 43.
... the maid , From her eyelid he kisses the Tear . Sweet scene of my youth , Seat of friendship and truth , Where love chased each fast - fleeting year Loath to leave thee , I mourn'd , For a THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF LORD BYRON . 43.
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... youth and beauty form the female shield , The sternest censor to the fair must yield . Yet , should our feeble efforts nought avail ; Should , after all , our best endeavours fail ; Still let some mercy in your bosoms live , And , if ...
... youth and beauty form the female shield , The sternest censor to the fair must yield . Yet , should our feeble efforts nought avail ; Should , after all , our best endeavours fail ; Still let some mercy in your bosoms live , And , if ...
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Memoirs of the life and writings of lord Byron George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) Affichage du livre entier - 1825 |
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Page 558 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 749 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 400 - Oh Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery.
Page 328 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 392 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 557 - Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Page 697 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone ! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile.
Page 327 - 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 344 - Twas still some solace in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth, To hearken to each other's speech, And each turn comforter to each, With some new hope, or legend old, Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold.
Page 348 - ... mate, But was not half so desolate, And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink Had brought me back to feel and think.