Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord ByronJ. Robins and Company, 1825 - 756 sidor |
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... soon after the birth of George Gordon Byron , the subject of these memoirs . Dies at Valenciennes . CHAPTER II . 3 Birth of Lord Byron . Early infirmity of his constitution . His childhood spent among the romantic scenery of Aberdeen ...
... soon after the birth of George Gordon Byron , the subject of these memoirs . Dies at Valenciennes . CHAPTER II . 3 Birth of Lord Byron . Early infirmity of his constitution . His childhood spent among the romantic scenery of Aberdeen ...
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... soon as he had reached man's estate , devoted himself to a religious life ; and , having joined with his father in alienating a considerable portion of the family estate to the use of the Lenton Priory , in Nottinghamshire , he ...
... soon as he had reached man's estate , devoted himself to a religious life ; and , having joined with his father in alienating a considerable portion of the family estate to the use of the Lenton Priory , in Nottinghamshire , he ...
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... frowns thy vaulted hall , Scowling defiance on the blasts of fate . • Henry II . founded Newstead , soon after the murder of Thomas ā Becket . No mail - clad serfs , * obedient to their 12 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF LORD BYRON .
... frowns thy vaulted hall , Scowling defiance on the blasts of fate . • Henry II . founded Newstead , soon after the murder of Thomas ā Becket . No mail - clad serfs , * obedient to their 12 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF LORD BYRON .
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... Soon as the Gloaming ‡ spreads her waning shade , The choir did oft their mingling vespers blend , Or matin orisons to Marys paid . Years roll on years ; to ages ages yield ; Abbots to abbots in a line succeed : Religion's charter their ...
... Soon as the Gloaming ‡ spreads her waning shade , The choir did oft their mingling vespers blend , Or matin orisons to Marys paid . Years roll on years ; to ages ages yield ; Abbots to abbots in a line succeed : Religion's charter their ...
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... Soon a new morn's restoring beams dispel The clouds of anarchy from Britain's skies : The fierce usurper seeks his native hell , And Nature triumphs as the tyrant dies . Lord Byron , and his brother , Sir William , held high commands in ...
... Soon a new morn's restoring beams dispel The clouds of anarchy from Britain's skies : The fierce usurper seeks his native hell , And Nature triumphs as the tyrant dies . Lord Byron , and his brother , Sir William , held high commands in ...
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Memoirs of the life and writings of lord Byron George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1825 |
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Sida 558 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Sida 749 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Sida 400 - Oh Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery.
Sida 328 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Sida 392 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Sida 557 - Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Sida 697 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone ! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile.
Sida 327 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Sida 344 - Twas still some solace in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth, To hearken to each other's speech, And each turn comforter to each, With some new hope, or legend old, Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold.
Sida 348 - ... mate, But was not half so desolate, And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink Had brought me back to feel and think.