The Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and JournalsJohn Murray, 1851 - 735 sidor |
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... called Horestan Castle , which was the chief mansion of his ( Ralph de Burun's ) successors . " As there is no record , however , as far as I can discover , of any of his ancestors having been engaged in the Holy Wars , it is possible ...
... called Horestan Castle , which was the chief mansion of his ( Ralph de Burun's ) successors . " As there is no record , however , as far as I can discover , of any of his ancestors having been engaged in the Holy Wars , it is possible ...
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... called the Hagberry Pot . When this was told to Lord Haddo , he pertinently replied , ' Let the birds come , and do them no harm , for the land will soon follow ; which it actually did . " 2 It appears , that she several times changed ...
... called the Hagberry Pot . When this was told to Lord Haddo , he pertinently replied , ' Let the birds come , and do them no harm , for the land will soon follow ; which it actually did . " 2 It appears , that she several times changed ...
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... called the child ) , start- ing from his seat , cried out boldly , " But I say it is the moon , sir . ” ; The short visit of Captain Byron to Aberdeen has already been mentioned , and he again passed two or three months in that city ...
... called the child ) , start- ing from his seat , cried out boldly , " But I say it is the moon , sir . ” ; The short visit of Captain Byron to Aberdeen has already been mentioned , and he again passed two or three months in that city ...
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... called the Linn of Dee . Here his love of ad- venture had nearly cost him his life . As he was scrambling along a declivity that overhung the fall , some heather caught his lame foot , and he fell . Already he was rolling downward ...
... called the Linn of Dee . Here his love of ad- venture had nearly cost him his life . As he was scrambling along a declivity that overhung the fall , some heather caught his lame foot , and he fell . Already he was rolling downward ...
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... called him " a lame brat . " 1 As all that he had felt strongly through life was , in some shape or other , reproduced in his poetry , it was not likely that an expression such as this should fail of being recorded . Accordingly we find ...
... called him " a lame brat . " 1 As all that he had felt strongly through life was , in some shape or other , reproduced in his poetry , it was not likely that an expression such as this should fail of being recorded . Accordingly we find ...
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Sida 306 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered, walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, 1 Memoirs, p. 166. and all nature was silent.
Sida 306 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Sida 65 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Sida 303 - I blame not the world, nor despise it, Nor the war of the many with one : If my soul was not fitted to prize it...
Sida 156 - I have traversed the seat of war in the peninsula ; I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey; but never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, did] I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return, in the very heart of a Christian country.
Sida 198 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Sida 320 - The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive.
Sida 213 - Whatever Sheridan has done or chosen to do has been, par excellence, always the best of its kind. He has written the best comedy (School for Scandal), the -best drama (in my mind, far before that St.
Sida 303 - Because it reminds me of thine ; And when winds are at war with the ocean, As the breasts I believed in with me, If their billows excite an emotion, It is that they bear me from thee.
Sida 21 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...