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Thomas Medwin. I brought the conversation back on Switzerland and his travels , and asked him if he had been in Germany ? 66 No , " said he , " not even at Trieste . " I hate despotism and the Goths too " much . I have travelled little ...
Thomas Medwin. I brought the conversation back on Switzerland and his travels , and asked him if he had been in Germany ? 66 No , " said he , " not even at Trieste . " I hate despotism and the Goths too " much . I have travelled little ...
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... asking him , and an " old gentleman , a friend of Gray's , to " dine with me . I had gone out to sail ་ early in the morning , and the wind pre- " vented me from returning in time for ❝ dinner . I understand that I offended " them ...
... asking him , and an " old gentleman , a friend of Gray's , to " dine with me . I had gone out to sail ་ early in the morning , and the wind pre- " vented me from returning in time for ❝ dinner . I understand that I offended " them ...
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... asked if I was right in my conjecture ? " She is a great heiress , ' said he in a whisper that became lower as he pro- " ceeded ; ' you had better marry her , 66 66 and repair the old place , Newstead . ' " There was something piquant ...
... asked if I was right in my conjecture ? " She is a great heiress , ' said he in a whisper that became lower as he pro- " ceeded ; ' you had better marry her , 66 66 and repair the old place , Newstead . ' " There was something piquant ...
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... asked him , in what way his life would prove a good lesson ? and he gave me several anecdotes of himself , which I have thrown into a sort of narrative . " Almost all the friends of my youth " are dead ; either shot in duels , ruined ...
... asked him , in what way his life would prove a good lesson ? and he gave me several anecdotes of himself , which I have thrown into a sort of narrative . " Almost all the friends of my youth " are dead ; either shot in duels , ruined ...
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... asked him about Venice : " Venice ! " said he , " I detest every 66 recollection of the place , the people , " and my pursuits . I there mixed again " in society , trod again the old round " of conversaziones , balls , and concerts ...
... asked him about Venice : " Venice ! " said he , " I detest every 66 recollection of the place , the people , " and my pursuits . I there mixed again " in society , trod again the old round " of conversaziones , balls , and concerts ...
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Página 167 - 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 262 - 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 264 - A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd Singing of Mount Abora.
Página 398 - Tempest unfolds its pinion o'er the gloom That shrouds the boiling surge ; the pitiless fiend, With all his winds and lightnings, tracks his prey; The torn deep yawns, — the vessel finds a grave Beneath its jagged gulf.
Página 356 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Página 368 - Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name! But be thyself, and know thyself to be! And ever at thy season be thou free To spill the venom when thy fangs o'erflow: Remorse and self-contempt shall cling to thee; Hot shame shall burn upon thy secret brow, And like a beaten hound tremble thou shalt — as now.
Página 204 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 79 - Another ! even now she loved another ; And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar , if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy , and flew.
Página 192 - Paradise Lost is blasphemous; and the very words of the Oxford gentleman, ' Evil, be thou my good,' are from that very poem, from the mouth of Satan ; and is there any thing...
Página 506 - In a few days P. Mavrocordato and myself, with a considerable escort, intend to proceed to Salona at the request of Ulysses and the Chiefs of Eastern Greece, and take measures offensive and defensive for the ensuing campaign. Mavrocordato is almost recalled by the new Government to the Morea (to take the lead, I rather think), and they have Written to propose to me, to go either to the Morea with him, or to take the general direction of affairs in this quarter— with General Londo, and any other...