Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1828 - 494 pages |
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Page 64
... Don Juan ( which he did under the influence of gin and water ) , rose late in the morning . He break- fasted ; read ; lounged about , singing an air , generally out of Rossini , and in a swaggering style , though in a voice at once ...
... Don Juan ( which he did under the influence of gin and water ) , rose late in the morning . He break- fasted ; read ; lounged about , singing an air , generally out of Rossini , and in a swaggering style , though in a voice at once ...
Page 71
... Don Juan , " was his weakness ; and he calls it " a very painful attribute . " It is an attribute certainly not very godlike ; but it still left him as self - centered and unsympathising with his movers , as if he had been a statue or a ...
... Don Juan , " was his weakness ; and he calls it " a very painful attribute . " It is an attribute certainly not very godlike ; but it still left him as self - centered and unsympathising with his movers , as if he had been a statue or a ...
Page 74
... Don Juan ! " When Lord Byron talked freely to her before others , she was not affected by what would have startled a delicate Englishwoman , ( a com- mon Italian defect ) , but when he alluded to 74 LORD BYRON .
... Don Juan ! " When Lord Byron talked freely to her before others , she was not affected by what would have startled a delicate Englishwoman , ( a com- mon Italian defect ) , but when he alluded to 74 LORD BYRON .
Page 75
... Don Juan . His favourite reading was history and travels . I think I am correct in saying that his favou- rite authors were Bayle and Gibbon . Gib- bon was altogether a writer calculated to please him . There was a show in him , and at ...
... Don Juan . His favourite reading was history and travels . I think I am correct in saying that his favou- rite authors were Bayle and Gibbon . Gib- bon was altogether a writer calculated to please him . There was a show in him , and at ...
Page 76
... Don Juan . And finally , his learning and research supplied the indolent man of letters with the informa- tion which he had left at school . Lord Byron's collection of books was poor , and consisted chiefly of new ones . I remem- ber ...
... Don Juan . And finally , his learning and research supplied the indolent man of letters with the informa- tion which he had left at school . Lord Byron's collection of books was poor , and consisted chiefly of new ones . I remem- ber ...
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