Lord Byron and Some of his ContemporariesGeorg Olms Verlag |
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... Poet , involved of necessity a painful retrospect ; and humanize as I may , and as I trust I do , upon him as well as every thing else , and certain as I am , that although I look upon this or that man as more or less vi PREFACE .
... Poet , involved of necessity a painful retrospect ; and humanize as I may , and as I trust I do , upon him as well as every thing else , and certain as I am , that although I look upon this or that man as more or less vi PREFACE .
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... poet was piqued to obtain his mistress , because she had a reputation for being delicate in such matters ; and the lady was piqued to become his wife , not because she did not know the gentleman previously to LORD BYRON . 9.
... poet was piqued to obtain his mistress , because she had a reputation for being delicate in such matters ; and the lady was piqued to become his wife , not because she did not know the gentleman previously to LORD BYRON . 9.
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... their attention to circumstances , which made you wish yourself a hundred miles off . They were connected with any thing but the graces with which a poet would encircle his Venus . He said to me once of a friend LORD BYRON . 41.
... their attention to circumstances , which made you wish yourself a hundred miles off . They were connected with any thing but the graces with which a poet would encircle his Venus . He said to me once of a friend LORD BYRON . 41.
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... the most common - place be- lievers in a poet's attractions will begin to sus- pect , that it is possible for his books to be the best part of him . From the dilemma into which I thus found myself thrown LORD BYRON . 43.
... the most common - place be- lievers in a poet's attractions will begin to sus- pect , that it is possible for his books to be the best part of him . From the dilemma into which I thus found myself thrown LORD BYRON . 43.
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... poet , and scornfully as a poli- tician ; and that at one time it was almost ex- clusive as a journal , in its admiration of the poetical genius of Wordsworth , of whom it nevertheless felt ashamed as a renegado . Lord Byron used to ...
... poet , and scornfully as a poli- tician ; and that at one time it was almost ex- clusive as a journal , in its admiration of the poetical genius of Wordsworth , of whom it nevertheless felt ashamed as a renegado . Lord Byron used to ...
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Página 434 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; 101 She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair...
Página 435 - Ode to a Nightingale MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Página 428 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device...
Página 364 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure; Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 340 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Página 435 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Página 364 - I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown. I sit upon the sands alone, — The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet I did any heart now share in my emotion.
Página 365 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.