Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822, Volumen1Wilder & Campbell, 1824 - 304 páginas |
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... Cain - " When I was a boy , " said he , " I studied German , which I have now entirely forgotten . It was very lit ... Cain had hardly committed a crime in ridding the world of so dull a fellow as Gessner made brother Abel . " I always ...
... Cain - " When I was a boy , " said he , " I studied German , which I have now entirely forgotten . It was very lit ... Cain had hardly committed a crime in ridding the world of so dull a fellow as Gessner made brother Abel . " I always ...
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... Cain a fine subject , and when I took it up , I determined to treat it strictly after the Mosaic account . I ... Cain's crime proceed from jealousy , and love of his uterine sister ; but , though a more probable cause of dispute , I ...
... Cain a fine subject , and when I took it up , I determined to treat it strictly after the Mosaic account . I ... Cain's crime proceed from jealousy , and love of his uterine sister ; but , though a more probable cause of dispute , I ...
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... Cain . ' The sight of one of his letters always does me good . I hardly know what to make of all the contradictory opinions that have been sent me this week . Moore says , that more people are shocked with the blasphe- my of the ...
... Cain . ' The sight of one of his letters always does me good . I hardly know what to make of all the contradictory opinions that have been sent me this week . Moore says , that more people are shocked with the blasphe- my of the ...
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... Cain . It is a grand mystery . The mark that was put upon Cain is a sublime and shadowy act : Goëthe would have made more of it than I have done . " * * On Mr. Murray being threatened with a prosecution , Lord Byron begged me to copy ...
... Cain . It is a grand mystery . The mark that was put upon Cain is a sublime and shadowy act : Goëthe would have made more of it than I have done . " * * On Mr. Murray being threatened with a prosecution , Lord Byron begged me to copy ...
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... Cain speak as the first rebel and the first murderer may be supposed to speak , nearly all the rest of the personages talk also according to their characters ; and the stronger passions have ever been permitted to the drama . I have ...
... Cain speak as the first rebel and the first murderer may be supposed to speak , nearly all the rest of the personages talk also according to their characters ; and the stronger passions have ever been permitted to the drama . I have ...
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Página 75 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 75 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Página 90 - 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 16 - Sweet hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flow'd o'er, To where the last Caesarean fortress stood, Evergreen forest!
Página 35 - I have a passion for the name of " Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be ; All feelings changed, but this was last to vary, A spell from which even yet I am not quite free : But I grow sad — and let a tale grow cold, Which must not be pathetically told.
Página 75 - 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 181 - His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.
Página 181 - Midst others of less note came one frail form, A phantom among men, companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm, Whose thunder is its knell.
Página 69 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy...
Página 162 - I know not who may conquer : if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain, sworn, downright detestation Of every despotism in every nation.