Miscellanies: Occasional pieces, 1807-1824J. Murray, 1837 |
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... night . Thus has it been with passion's fires- As many a boy and girl remembers While every hope of love expires , Extinguish'd with the dying embers . The first , though not a spark survive , Some careful hand may teach to burn ; The ...
... night . Thus has it been with passion's fires- As many a boy and girl remembers While every hope of love expires , Extinguish'd with the dying embers . The first , though not a spark survive , Some careful hand may teach to burn ; The ...
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... night , But dare not stand the test of day . Alas ! whenever folly calls Where parasites and princes meet , ( For cherish'd first in royal halls , The welcome vices kindly greet , ) Ev'n now thou ' rt nightly seen to add One insect to ...
... night , But dare not stand the test of day . Alas ! whenever folly calls Where parasites and princes meet , ( For cherish'd first in royal halls , The welcome vices kindly greet , ) Ev'n now thou ' rt nightly seen to add One insect to ...
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... night our love return'd , And , sooth to say , that very dream Was sweeter in its phantasy , Than if for other hearts I burn'd , For eyes that ne'er like thine could beam In rapture's wild reality . Then tell me not , remind me not , Of ...
... night our love return'd , And , sooth to say , that very dream Was sweeter in its phantasy , Than if for other hearts I burn'd , For eyes that ne'er like thine could beam In rapture's wild reality . Then tell me not , remind me not , Of ...
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... night of the 11th Oc- tober , 1809 , when Lord Byron's guides had lost the road to Zitza , near the range of mountains formerly called Pindus , in Albania . Mr. Hobhouse , who had rode on before the rest of the party , and arrived at ...
... night of the 11th Oc- tober , 1809 , when Lord Byron's guides had lost the road to Zitza , near the range of mountains formerly called Pindus , in Albania . Mr. Hobhouse , who had rode on before the rest of the party , and arrived at ...
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... night will dare To tempt the wilderness ? And who ' mid thunder peals can hear Our signal of distress ? And who that heard our shouts would rise To try the dubious road ? Nor rather deem from nightly cries That outlaws were abroad ...
... night will dare To tempt the wilderness ? And who ' mid thunder peals can hear Our signal of distress ? And who that heard our shouts would rise To try the dubious road ? Nor rather deem from nightly cries That outlaws were abroad ...
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Page 170 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 22 - If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? — With silence and tears.
Page 260 - The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece, around me see! The Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free. Awake! (not Greece — she is awake!) Awake, my spirit! Think through whom Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake. And then strike home!
Page 240 - Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto. Per più fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso : Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso. La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante : Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse : Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante..
Page 176 - Thy godlike crime was to be kind. To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness. And strengthen Man with his own mind ; But baffled as thou wert from high. Still in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse, A mighty lesson we inherit...
Page 136 - FARE thee well ! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee Where thy head so oft hath lain While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again : Would that breast, by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show ! Then thou would'st at last discover 'Twas not well to spurn it so. Though the world for this commend thee — Though it smile upon the blow, Even...
Page 161 - Opera), the best farce (the Critic— it is only too good for a farce), and the best Address (Monologue on Garrick), and, to crown all, delivered the very best Oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country.
Page 144 - Though the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find ; Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted, It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee.
Page 260 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Page 163 - 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...