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... beautiful Sonnet and Stanzas in honour of her . Cava- lieri Serventi . Mode of bringing up Italian females ; its consequences . Italian propen- sity to love . Intimacy with the Countess : her rescue Lord Byron's preference for Ravenna ...
... beautiful Sonnet and Stanzas in honour of her . Cava- lieri Serventi . Mode of bringing up Italian females ; its consequences . Italian propen- sity to love . Intimacy with the Countess : her rescue Lord Byron's preference for Ravenna ...
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... and she has the most beautiful mouth and teeth imaginable . It is impossible to see without admiring - to hear the Guiccioli speak without being fascinated . Her amiability and gentleness shew themselves in every 22 CONVERSATIONS OF.
... and she has the most beautiful mouth and teeth imaginable . It is impossible to see without admiring - to hear the Guiccioli speak without being fascinated . Her amiability and gentleness shew themselves in every 22 CONVERSATIONS OF.
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... beautiful sonnet prefixed to the Prophecy of Dante was addressed to her ; and I cannot resist copying some stanzas written when he was about to quit Venice to join her at Ravenna , which will describe the state of his feelings at that ...
... beautiful sonnet prefixed to the Prophecy of Dante was addressed to her ; and I cannot resist copying some stanzas written when he was about to quit Venice to join her at Ravenna , which will describe the state of his feelings at that ...
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... beautiful woman , and might have been a dangerous visitress , I was scarcely ac- quainted ( to speak ) with her . I might even make a more serious charge against than employing spies to watch suspected amours , " I had been shut up in a ...
... beautiful woman , and might have been a dangerous visitress , I was scarcely ac- quainted ( to speak ) with her . I might even make a more serious charge against than employing spies to watch suspected amours , " I had been shut up in a ...
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... beautiful , and " rich girl , and yet was miserable . He " had strongly urged me against putting 66 my neck in the same yoke : and to " shew you how firmly I was resolved to " attend to his advice , I betted Hay 66 fifty guineas to one ...
... beautiful , and " rich girl , and yet was miserable . He " had strongly urged me against putting 66 my neck in the same yoke : and to " shew you how firmly I was resolved to " attend to his advice , I betted Hay 66 fifty guineas to one ...
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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...