The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the Right Hon. George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron: Including ... Anecdotes, and Memoirs of the Lives of the Most Eminent and Eccentric, Public and Noble Characters and Courtiers of the ... Age and Court of His Majesty King George the Fourth. In the Course of the Biography is Also Separately Given, Copious Recollections of the Lately Destroyed Ms. Originally Intended for Posthumous Publication, and Entitled: Memoirs of My Own Life and Times, Volume 1M. Iley, 1825 - 431 pages |
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Page 16
... she ( the ship ) lay for some little time , every soul on board looking upon the present minute as his last , for there was nothing to be seen but breakers all around us . FAMILY OF LORD BYRON . 17 However , a mountainous.
... she ( the ship ) lay for some little time , every soul on board looking upon the present minute as his last , for there was nothing to be seen but breakers all around us . FAMILY OF LORD BYRON . 17 However , a mountainous.
Page 61
... soul he held on earth ; While Man , vain insect , hopes to be forgiv'n , And claims himself a sole exclusive heav'n . Oh Man ! thou feeble tenant of an hour , Debas'd by slav'ry , or corrupt by power , Who knows thee well must quit thee ...
... soul he held on earth ; While Man , vain insect , hopes to be forgiv'n , And claims himself a sole exclusive heav'n . Oh Man ! thou feeble tenant of an hour , Debas'd by slav'ry , or corrupt by power , Who knows thee well must quit thee ...
Page 66
... soul from barbarity clear ; Compassion will melt Where this virtue is felt , And its dew is diffus'd in a Tear . The man doom'd to sail With the blast of the gale , Through billows Atlantic to steer , As he bends o'er the wave , Which ...
... soul from barbarity clear ; Compassion will melt Where this virtue is felt , And its dew is diffus'd in a Tear . The man doom'd to sail With the blast of the gale , Through billows Atlantic to steer , As he bends o'er the wave , Which ...
Page 79
... soul , he despised and detested . That his Lordship was no stranger to the metropolitan " Hells " ( the modern fashionable slang term for gaming - houses ) , we gather from his own words : " What the number of those Hells may now be ...
... soul , he despised and detested . That his Lordship was no stranger to the metropolitan " Hells " ( the modern fashionable slang term for gaming - houses ) , we gather from his own words : " What the number of those Hells may now be ...
Page 80
... soul would be found hereafter , I answered , " in silver Hell . " But his Lordship's visits to these terres- trial Pandæmonia evidently arose solely from his desire to be acquainted with men and manners , as he was never tainted with ...
... soul would be found hereafter , I answered , " in silver Hell . " But his Lordship's visits to these terres- trial Pandæmonia evidently arose solely from his desire to be acquainted with men and manners , as he was never tainted with ...
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