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... the fire - light Would flash upon our faces , till the day Might dawn , and make me wonder at my stay . " Shelley's Julian and Maddalo . Geneva , 1st August , 1824 . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . The Writer's arrival at PREFACE . ix.
... the fire - light Would flash upon our faces , till the day Might dawn , and make me wonder at my stay . " Shelley's Julian and Maddalo . Geneva , 1st August , 1824 . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . The Writer's arrival at PREFACE . ix.
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... - ation . Conversations on Switzerland and Ger- many ; strong predilection for Turkey 5-13 Residence at Geneva . Malicious intruders . Ma- dame de Staël . Dinner disaster . Excursions on the Lake ; Shelley and Hobhouse ; St. Preux.
... - ation . Conversations on Switzerland and Ger- many ; strong predilection for Turkey 5-13 Residence at Geneva . Malicious intruders . Ma- dame de Staël . Dinner disaster . Excursions on the Lake ; Shelley and Hobhouse ; St. Preux.
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Thomas Medwin. on the Lake ; Shelley and Hobhouse ; St. Preux and Julia ; classical drowning . Lord Byron's horsemanship ; pistol - firing ; remarks on duel- ling ; his own duels . Anecdote . 13-18 • Sunset at Venice and Pisa . Routine ...
Thomas Medwin. on the Lake ; Shelley and Hobhouse ; St. Preux and Julia ; classical drowning . Lord Byron's horsemanship ; pistol - firing ; remarks on duel- ling ; his own duels . Anecdote . 13-18 • Sunset at Venice and Pisa . Routine ...
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... Shelley's A0ɛos . ' The Deformed Transformed : ' Shelley's opinion thereon . Southey's epitaph . Heaven and Earth . ' Murray's refusal to VOL . I. b print . Cain , ' and the Lord Chancellor . CONTENTS . xvii.
... Shelley's A0ɛos . ' The Deformed Transformed : ' Shelley's opinion thereon . Southey's epitaph . Heaven and Earth . ' Murray's refusal to VOL . I. b print . Cain , ' and the Lord Chancellor . CONTENTS . xvii.
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... Shelley's opinion that the study of Dante is un- favourable to writing : the difficulty of trans- lating him : Taaffe and Cary . Lord Byron and The Prophecy of Dante . ' Swedenborg's disciples . Translations of Lord Byron's works . The ...
... Shelley's opinion that the study of Dante is un- favourable to writing : the difficulty of trans- lating him : Taaffe and Cary . Lord Byron and The Prophecy of Dante . ' Swedenborg's disciples . Translations of Lord Byron's works . The ...
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Página 146 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife...
Página 157 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 118 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played.
Página 251 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Página 156 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And -we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 158 - We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Página 116 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Página 79 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...