 ... strange design Against the creed and morals of the land, And trace it in this poem every line: I don't pretend that I quite understand My own meaning when I would be very fine; But the fact is that I have nothing plann'd, Unless it were to be a moment...  Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V. - Sida 74efter George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 218 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 sidor
...that I have nothing ptann'd, Unless it were to be a moment merry, A novel word in my vocabulary. VL Britain's skies ; The fierce usurper seeks his native hell, And Nature triu ; And revell'd in the fancies of the time, True knights, chaste dames, huge giant kings despotic :... | |
 | Thomas Rommel - 1995 - 420 sidor
...auf die Erwähnung Luigi Pulcis,7 dessen // Morgante Maggiore er 1819 zu übersetzen begann. [IV, 6] To the kind reader of our sober clime This way of...rhyme, Who sang when chivalry was more quixotic. And revelled in the fancies of the time — True knights, chaste dames, huge giants, kings despotic. But... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 sidor
...poetry has since been called Bernesque, from Francesco Berni, of Tuscany, who greatly excelled in it. Pulci was sire of the half-serious rhyme, Who sang when chivalry was more quixotic, And revelled in the fancies of the time, True knights, chaste dames, huge giants, kings despotic. Byron,... | |
 | 1915 - 338 sidor
...the notice of even the casual reader. In speaking of the style of his poem iCanto VI, 6.) Byron says: "To the kind reader of our sober clime This way of writing will appear exotic '•;' and mindful of his master, he then goes on : "Pulci was sire of the half-serious rhyme, Who... | |
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