The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes, Volumen12

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Página 28 - LXXXII. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dun, cupola, like a foolscap crown
Página 15 - All my boy feelings, all my gentler dreams Of what I then dreamt, clothed in their own pall, Like Banquo's offspring :—floating past me seems My childhood in this childishness of mine : I care not—'tis a glimpse of "Auld Lang Syne." And though, as you remember, in a fit, Of wrath and rhyme, when juvenile and curly,
Página 53 - greatest living poet," Like to the champion in the fisty ring, Is called on to support his claim, or show it, Although 't is an imaginary thing. Even I—albeit I 'm sure I did not know it, Nor sought of foolscap subjects to be king,—
Página 121 - By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed Around : the wildfowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downwards to its brink.,
Página 38 - Their cash, to show how much they have a year. Here laws are all inviolate ; none lay Traps for the traveller; every highway's clear; Here "—he was interrupted by a knife, With — "Damn your eyes! your money or your life ! "These freeborn sounds proceeded from four pads In ambush
Página 53 - LIV. However, he did pretty well, and was Admitted as an aspirant to all The coteries, and, as in Banquo's glass, At great assemblies or in parties small, He saw ten thousand living authors pass, That being about their average numeral; Also the eighty "greatest living poets," As every paltry magazine can show
Página 131 - xcn. There also were two wits by acclamation, Longbow from Ireland, Strongbow from the Tweed,* Both lawyers and both men of education ; But Strongbow's wit was of more polish'd As beautiful and bounding as a steed, But sometimes stumbling over a potato,— While Strongbow's best things might have come from Cato.
Página 42 - from no light); through prospects named Mount Pleasant, as containing nought to please, Nor much to climb; through little boxes framed Of bricks, to let the dust in at your ease, With "To be let, "upon their doors proclaim'd; Through " Rows " most modestly call'd "Paradise," Which Eve might quit without much sacrifice;—
Página 197 - it no less true is, There's pretty picking in those " petits puits." The mind is lost in mighty contemplation Of intellect expanded on two courses ; And indigestion's grand multiplication Requires arithmetic beyond my forces. Who would suppose, from Adam's simple ration, That cookery could have call'd forth such resources, As form a science and a
Página 134 - sunny ; We tire of mistresses and parasites ; But oh, ambrosial cash ! Ah! who would lose / thee? When we no more can use, or even abuse thee! CI. The gentlemen got up betimes to shoot, Or hunt : the young, because they liked the sport— The first thing boys like after play and fruit;

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