Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: With Anecdotes of Some of His ContemporariesHenry Colburn and Company, 1822 - 428 pages |
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... respect ; like those offerings which the pagans presented to cer- tain of their divinities , to propitiate their fa- vour and prevent them from doing mischief . Since then , the right honourable poet has rendered you , or himself , a ...
... respect ; like those offerings which the pagans presented to cer- tain of their divinities , to propitiate their fa- vour and prevent them from doing mischief . Since then , the right honourable poet has rendered you , or himself , a ...
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... xii any influence over your mind in the adminis- tration of justice . I am , With great respect for your virtue and admiration of your talents , London , May 1 , 1822 . **** CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I.- Genealogical History . - ...
... xii any influence over your mind in the adminis- tration of justice . I am , With great respect for your virtue and admiration of your talents , London , May 1 , 1822 . **** CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I.- Genealogical History . - ...
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... respect for his Tutor . - His Opinion for the poetic Classics controverted . - Re- moval to Cambridge , and reflections upon that University . CHAPTER III . - Publication of the " Hours of Idleness ; " -Critique of the Edinburgh ...
... respect for his Tutor . - His Opinion for the poetic Classics controverted . - Re- moval to Cambridge , and reflections upon that University . CHAPTER III . - Publication of the " Hours of Idleness ; " -Critique of the Edinburgh ...
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... respect for the common sense of mankind ? The philosopher of Geneva , if such a splenetic spirit de- served the name of philosopher , was frank enough to own that he chose rather to be remarkable for his paradoxes than his prejudices ...
... respect for the common sense of mankind ? The philosopher of Geneva , if such a splenetic spirit de- served the name of philosopher , was frank enough to own that he chose rather to be remarkable for his paradoxes than his prejudices ...
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... respects gave too much way to the encroachments of the Lower House , they had firmness enough in this instance to reject the proposition . The City , however , petitioned the King on this subject , and , among other grievances ...
... respects gave too much way to the encroachments of the Lower House , they had firmness enough in this instance to reject the proposition . The City , however , petitioned the King on this subject , and , among other grievances ...
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Page 269 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar; for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard! — May none those marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 269 - Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom — Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Page 302 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 219 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 279 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Page 278 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 378 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 209 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 175 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, And cried through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 291 - She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe : nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I had not; And tenderness — but that I had for her; Humility — and that I never had. Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own — I loved her, and destroy'd her ! Witch.