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... called on his Lordship at two o'clock , he had just left his bed - room , and was at breakfast , if it could be called one . It consisted of a cup of strong green tea , with- out milk or sugar , and an egg , of which he ate the yolk raw ...
... called on his Lordship at two o'clock , he had just left his bed - room , and was at breakfast , if it could be called one . It consisted of a cup of strong green tea , with- out milk or sugar , and an egg , of which he ate the yolk raw ...
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... called almost a pursuit . He always has pistols in his holster , and eight or ten pair by the first makers in London carried by his courier . We had each twelve rounds of ammunition , and in a diameter of four inches he put eleven out ...
... called almost a pursuit . He always has pistols in his holster , and eight or ten pair by the first makers in London carried by his courier . We had each twelve rounds of ammunition , and in a diameter of four inches he put eleven out ...
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... is naved by the massy dungeon - tower ( erroneously called Ugolino's ) , frowning in dark relief , and tell me if any thing can surpass a sunset at Pisa . ” The history of one , is that of almost every c 2 LORD BYRON . 19.
... is naved by the massy dungeon - tower ( erroneously called Ugolino's ) , frowning in dark relief , and tell me if any thing can surpass a sunset at Pisa . ” The history of one , is that of almost every c 2 LORD BYRON . 19.
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... called fashion . She in- " terested me exceedingly . It is unnecessary " to detail the progress of our acquaintance . " I became daily more attached to her , and " it ended in my making her a proposal that was rejected . Her refusal was ...
... called fashion . She in- " terested me exceedingly . It is unnecessary " to detail the progress of our acquaintance . " I became daily more attached to her , and " it ended in my making her a proposal that was rejected . Her refusal was ...
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... only unconcerned person present ; Lady Noel , her mother , cried ; I trembled like a " leaf , made the wrong responses , and after " the ceremony called her Miss Milbanke . " There is a singular history attached to " the LORD BYRON . 43.
... only unconcerned person present ; Lady Noel , her mother , cried ; I trembled like a " leaf , made the wrong responses , and after " the ceremony called her Miss Milbanke . " There is a singular history attached to " the LORD BYRON . 43.
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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...