Vindication of Lady ByronR. Bentley, 1871 - 352 sidor |
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Sida 1 - The fault was not — no, nor even the misfortune — in my ' choice ' (unless in choosing at all) — for I do not believe — and I must say it, in the very dregs of all this bitter business — that there ever was a better, or even a brighter, a kinder, or a more amiable and agreeable being than Lady B. I never had, nor can have, any reproach to make her, while with ma Where there is blame, it belongs to myself, and, if I cannot redeem, I must bear it.
Sida 242 - We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Sida 33 - His strain display'd some feeling — right or wrong; And feeling, in a poet, is the source Of others' feeling; but they are such liars, And take all colours — like the hands of dyers.
Sida 172 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Sida 58 - I am glad you like it ; it is a fine indistinct piece of poetical desolation, and my favourite. I was half mad during the time of its composition, between metaphysics, mountains, lakes, love unextinguishable, thoughts unutterable, and the night-mare of my own delinquencies. I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-inlaw...
Sida 196 - I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name, There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame ; But the tear which now burns on my cheek may impart The deep thoughts that dwell in that silence of heart.
Sida 7 - I have been very comfortable here, — listening to that d — d monologue, which elderly gentlemen call conversation, and in which my pious father-in-law repeats himself every evening — save one, when he played upon the fiddle. However, they have been very kind and hospitable, and I like them and the place vastly, and I hope they will live many happy months. Bell is in health, and unvaried good-humour and behaviour.
Sida 121 - But it don't curl, perhaps from its being let grow. " I also thank you for the inscription of the date and name, and I will tell you why : I believe that they are the only two or three words of your handwriting in my possession. For your letters I returned, and except the two words, or rather the one word, ' household/ written, twice in an old account book, I have no other.
Sida 47 - I have not understood a word your Lordship has been saying." "Not understand me?" exclaimed Lord Byron, with a look of the utmost distress, "what a pity! — then it is too late; all is over.
Sida 122 - But this very impossibility of re-union seems to me at least a reason why, on all the few points of discussion which can arise between us, we should preserve the courtesies of life, and as much of its kindness as people who are never to meet may preserve perhaps more easily than nearer connections.