Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1828 - 440 pages |
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... society , contrary to what is eternally said to the reverse ; and being of opinion , that the world is lost over and over again , solely by people's losing their hopes of it in middle life . And I shall comfort my- THE SECOND EDITION . XV.
... society , contrary to what is eternally said to the reverse ; and being of opinion , that the world is lost over and over again , solely by people's losing their hopes of it in middle life . And I shall comfort my- THE SECOND EDITION . XV.
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... opinions , but protest- ing at the same time against any conclusion to be drawn from the confession , apart from a knowledge of all which this book contains , I frankly avow , that as far as the sincerity in it has taken a splenetic ...
... opinions , but protest- ing at the same time against any conclusion to be drawn from the confession , apart from a knowledge of all which this book contains , I frankly avow , that as far as the sincerity in it has taken a splenetic ...
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... opinion of Queen Mab he expressed publicly . His hopes had diminished when I last saw him ; but when I told him that I hoped still , and that I thought hope itself a part of success , he fully assented to the utility of my opinion ; and ...
... opinion of Queen Mab he expressed publicly . His hopes had diminished when I last saw him ; but when I told him that I hoped still , and that I thought hope itself a part of success , he fully assented to the utility of my opinion ; and ...
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... opinions to the test of free enquiry , and to be always open to conviction . Whig and Tory , as opposed to each other , as we have observed , is a merely nominal distinction ; but liberal and illiberal are as opposite as light and ...
... opinions to the test of free enquiry , and to be always open to conviction . Whig and Tory , as opposed to each other , as we have observed , is a merely nominal distinction ; but liberal and illiberal are as opposite as light and ...
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... opinions materially affected by them ; so that every noble aspiration they utter , and every graceful sentence in which it is clothed , seem to come home to me like golden sheaves of the harvest that I have contributed to SOW . This ...
... opinions materially affected by them ; so that every noble aspiration they utter , and every graceful sentence in which it is clothed , seem to come home to me like golden sheaves of the harvest that I have contributed to SOW . This ...
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Page 435 - Ode to a Nightingale MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 436 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 446 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 437 - Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Page 437 - Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?
Page 434 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 428 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device...
Page 340 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Page 364 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 419 - Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public.— What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished.'— Preface, p.