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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With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy Leigh Hunt. LONDON : PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY , Dorset Street , Fleet Street . P R E F A CЕ . THE reader will.
With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy Leigh Hunt. LONDON : PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY , Dorset Street , Fleet Street . P R E F A CЕ . THE reader will.
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... reader will oblige me by letting me explain to him , how the volume , here offered to his perusal , came to be what it is . I think it due to myself to make the explanation ; and as a conscientious reader of the pre- faces of other men ...
... reader will oblige me by letting me explain to him , how the volume , here offered to his perusal , came to be what it is . I think it due to myself to make the explanation ; and as a conscientious reader of the pre- faces of other men ...
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... readers might have mistaken the object of it , than was desirable ; and Mr. Hazlitt is ready enough , at all times , to save others the necessity of exhibit- ing his defects . Twenty such articles would not have put an end to the good ...
... readers might have mistaken the object of it , than was desirable ; and Mr. Hazlitt is ready enough , at all times , to save others the necessity of exhibit- ing his defects . Twenty such articles would not have put an end to the good ...
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... reader may know me better than myself , and punish me in his thought accord- ingly . Let me have only the benefit of the concession . I have been forced to give up , in my time , too many dreams of self - love , to deny myself the ...
... reader may know me better than myself , and punish me in his thought accord- ingly . Let me have only the benefit of the concession . I have been forced to give up , in my time , too many dreams of self - love , to deny myself the ...
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... readers who shall see it . To others of that class , if I had them within hearing , I should say , that they go counter to their own principles , or perhaps are not quite so unwil- ling to think evil as they suppose , when they condemn ...
... readers who shall see it . To others of that class , if I had them within hearing , I should say , that they go counter to their own principles , or perhaps are not quite so unwil- ling to think evil as they suppose , when they condemn ...
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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.