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... ideas as I noted them down at the time , -in his own words , as far as my recollection served . They are however , in many cases , the substance without the form . The bril- liancy of his wit , the flow of his eloquence , the sallies of ...
... ideas as I noted them down at the time , -in his own words , as far as my recollection served . They are however , in many cases , the substance without the form . The bril- liancy of his wit , the flow of his eloquence , the sallies of ...
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... Modern sensitive- ness . ' Marino Faliero . ' Ugo Foscolo 119-141 Ada . Singular coincidence . Ideas on edu- · cation . Ada's birth - day . Lord Byron's melancholy and superstition . 6 Birth - day fatalities . xiv CONTENTS .
... Modern sensitive- ness . ' Marino Faliero . ' Ugo Foscolo 119-141 Ada . Singular coincidence . Ideas on edu- · cation . Ada's birth - day . Lord Byron's melancholy and superstition . 6 Birth - day fatalities . xiv CONTENTS .
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... idea of him . I saw a man of about five feet seven or eight , apparently forty years of age : as was said of Milton , he barely escaped being short and thick . His face was fine , and the lower part symme- trically moulded ; for the ...
... idea of him . I saw a man of about five feet seven or eight , apparently forty years of age : as was said of Milton , he barely escaped being short and thick . His face was fine , and the lower part symme- trically moulded ; for the ...
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... idea , when at Rome , of visiting Naples , but was at that time anxious " to get back to Venice . But Pæstum cannot surpass the ruins of Agrigen- tum , which I saw by moonlight ; nor Naples , Constantinople . You have no " conception of ...
... idea , when at Rome , of visiting Naples , but was at that time anxious " to get back to Venice . But Pæstum cannot surpass the ruins of Agrigen- tum , which I saw by moonlight ; nor Naples , Constantinople . You have no " conception of ...
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... idea , when I tell you that a leg " of mutton was always served at his table , that he might cut the same joke 66 66 66 66 upon it , ) I broke a tooth , and was in great pain , which I could not avoid " shewing . ' It will do you good ...
... idea , when I tell you that a leg " of mutton was always served at his table , that he might cut the same joke 66 66 66 66 upon it , ) I broke a tooth , and was in great pain , which I could not avoid " shewing . ' It will do you good ...
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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...