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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... still the source of all light , heat , and the parent of vegeta- tion : the telescopic eye of envy may derive pleasure To those who can feel for others , vi INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS . from detecting the stains in the CONTENTS CHAPTER.
... still the source of all light , heat , and the parent of vegeta- tion : the telescopic eye of envy may derive pleasure To those who can feel for others , vi INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS . from detecting the stains in the CONTENTS CHAPTER.
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... tion they were in , by the violent surf that drove in upon the coast . These horrors were overcome by the distresses of our people , who were even glad of the occasion of killing the gallinazo ( the carrion crow of that country ) ...
... tion they were in , by the violent surf that drove in upon the coast . These horrors were overcome by the distresses of our people , who were even glad of the occasion of killing the gallinazo ( the carrion crow of that country ) ...
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... tion ; in others , by a resolution of leaving the captain entirely , and making a wild journey by themselves , without determining upon any plan whatever . For my own part , liking none of their parties , I built a little hut just big ...
... tion ; in others , by a resolution of leaving the captain entirely , and making a wild journey by themselves , without determining upon any plan whatever . For my own part , liking none of their parties , I built a little hut just big ...
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... tion at Westminster - school , and had a captain's commission in the Guards ; but his life was so irregular , that the admiral discarded him long before his death ; and his criminal intercourse with the Marchioness of Carmarthen ended ...
... tion at Westminster - school , and had a captain's commission in the Guards ; but his life was so irregular , that the admiral discarded him long before his death ; and his criminal intercourse with the Marchioness of Carmarthen ended ...
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... tion of Dominus to his name , served at that time , when he was only ten years of age , to point out that he would be a man who would think , speak , and act for himself ; who , whatever might be his sayings or his doings , his vices or ...
... tion of Dominus to his name , served at that time , when he was only ten years of age , to point out that he would be a man who would think , speak , and act for himself ; who , whatever might be his sayings or his doings , his vices or ...
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Page 83 - To live within himself; she was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all: upon a tone, A touch of hers, his blood would ebb and flow, And his cheek change tempestuously— his heart Unknowing of its cause of agony.
Page 60 - Near this spot Are deposited the Remains Of one Who Possessed Beauty Without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man Without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning flattery If inscribed over Human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of "Boatswain," a Dog Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey Nov. 18, 1808.
Page 264 - Should her lineaments resemble Those thou never more may'st see, Then thy heart will softly tremble With a pulse yet true to me. All my faults perchance thou knowest, All my madness none can know ; All my hopes, where'er thou goest, Wither, yet with thee they go. Every feeling hath been shaken ; Pride, which not a world could bow. Bows to thee — by thee forsaken, Even my soul forsakes me now...
Page 169 - What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Page 355 - As eager to anticipate their grave; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell. And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Page 264 - Pride — which not a world could bow — Bows to thee — by thee forsaken, Even my soul forsakes me now. But 'tis done — all words are idle — Words from me are vainer still ; But the thoughts we cannot bridle Force their way without the will. Fare thee well ! — thus disunited — Torn from every nearer tie — Seared in heart — and lone — and blighted — More than this, I scarce can die. A SKETCH FROM PRIVATE LIFE. "Honest — Honest lago ! If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee."...
Page 304 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 82 - Not by the sport of nature, but of man : These two, a maiden and a youth, were there Gazing — the one on all that was beneath Fair as herself — but the boy gazed on her ; And both were young, and one was beautiful : And both were young — yet not alike in youth. As the sweet moon on the horizon's verge, The maid was on the eve of womanhood ; The boy had fewer summers, but his heart Had far outgrown his years, and to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him...
Page 61 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...
Page 312 - Ye toppling crags of ice! Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me!