The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Volumen2Harper, 1855 |
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... talents in the breast of the surviving lady - were the result . About this period , in June , 1819 , Lord Byron , after a resi- dence of upward of two years at Venice , began to grow weary of the gloomy aspect of a great city falling ...
... talents in the breast of the surviving lady - were the result . About this period , in June , 1819 , Lord Byron , after a resi- dence of upward of two years at Venice , began to grow weary of the gloomy aspect of a great city falling ...
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... talents she has no claim to ; but she has considerable conversational talents , and a large share of keen observation and insight into character , and of cleverness and naïveté , mingled with simplicity . She is well versed in Italian ...
... talents she has no claim to ; but she has considerable conversational talents , and a large share of keen observation and insight into character , and of cleverness and naïveté , mingled with simplicity . She is well versed in Italian ...
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... talent , modest worth , and feminine gifts and graces of intellect , of the strife in the arena of " the trade , " in the press , in the public gaze , in literary circles , in cliques of critics , and coteries of patronizing people of ...
... talent , modest worth , and feminine gifts and graces of intellect , of the strife in the arena of " the trade , " in the press , in the public gaze , in literary circles , in cliques of critics , and coteries of patronizing people of ...
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... talents ( which I do ) , I tremble lest she should fail in this book - making ; and , as a rule , I have an aversion , a pity and contempt for all female scribblers . The needle , not the pen , is the instrument they should handle , and ...
... talents ( which I do ) , I tremble lest she should fail in this book - making ; and , as a rule , I have an aversion , a pity and contempt for all female scribblers . The needle , not the pen , is the instrument they should handle , and ...
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... talents , encouraged their exertion by inserting her poems in a lite- rary journal , with all the encomiums they merited . This drew the attention of publishers on her , and , alas ! drew also the calumny and hatred of the en- vious ...
... talents , encouraged their exertion by inserting her poems in a lite- rary journal , with all the encomiums they merited . This drew the attention of publishers on her , and , alas ! drew also the calumny and hatred of the en- vious ...
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Página 563 - The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's. I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple sea-weeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown; I sit upon the sands alone — The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around...
Página 39 - WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not ; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.
Página 386 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Página 83 - E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Página 281 - Once, and once only, have I seen thy face, Elia ! once only has thy tripping tongue Run o'er my breast, yet never has been left Impression on it stronger or more sweet. Cordial old man ! what youth was in thy years, What wisdom in thy levity, what truth In every utterance of that purest soul I Few are the spirits of the glorified I'd spring to earlier at the gate of Heaven.
Página 563 - ... trickling down his face. After having given him something to refresh him, upon enquiring into the cause of his alarm, they found that his wild imagination having pictured to him the bosom of one of the ladies with eyes (which was reported of a lady in the neighbourhood where he lived) he was obliged to leave the room in order to destroy the impression.
Página 16 - IN THE VAULT BENEATH, WHERE MANY OF HIS ANCESTORS AND HIS MOTHER ARE BURIED, LIE THE REMAINS OF GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, LORD BYRON, OF ROCHDALE, IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, THE AUTHOR OF "CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.
Página 15 - The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument...
Página 120 - Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough, clerk before the worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy, knight, touching deer-stealing on the 19th day of September in the year of Grace 1582, now first published from original papers.
Página 206 - Quarrels of Authors; or, some Memoirs for our Literary History ; including Specimens of Controversy, to the reign of Elizabeth,