The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, Том 3Macmillan and Company, 1889 |
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... given him an undesirable society on his first appearance in town , had dispersed and fallen away , as it is the way of loose company to do . VOL . III . And it is impossible to imagine a more forlorn figure BYRON . ] 17 THE NINETEENTH ...
... given him an undesirable society on his first appearance in town , had dispersed and fallen away , as it is the way of loose company to do . VOL . III . And it is impossible to imagine a more forlorn figure BYRON . ] 17 THE NINETEENTH ...
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... given this fortunate - unfortunate the highest gratification . His friend , Mr. Dallas , who met him directly after its delivery , found him " glowing with success and much agitated . " He had been told that Sheridan thought he would ...
... given this fortunate - unfortunate the highest gratification . His friend , Mr. Dallas , who met him directly after its delivery , found him " glowing with success and much agitated . " He had been told that Sheridan thought he would ...
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... given to the force , and beauty , and intense vitality of a literary medium . These are not the words we would naturally employ to describe the divine stream of great poetry ; for even the poetry of Byron's tales is not of a divine kind ...
... given to the force , and beauty , and intense vitality of a literary medium . These are not the words we would naturally employ to describe the divine stream of great poetry ; for even the poetry of Byron's tales is not of a divine kind ...
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... given great pleasure to my mother - in- law . " Amid this levity it is hard to understand how much real feeling there was . His " love inextinguishable " was no doubt the passages with Miss Clairmont , which lasted but a little time ...
... given great pleasure to my mother - in- law . " Amid this levity it is hard to understand how much real feeling there was . His " love inextinguishable " was no doubt the passages with Miss Clairmont , which lasted but a little time ...
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... given a difficult task . Byron acquitted himself creditably of a fine undertaking ; but he did not stir the heart of the reader , or add any charm to the enchantments of that city , which has fewer personal associations than any other ...
... given a difficult task . Byron acquitted himself creditably of a fine undertaking ; but he did not stir the heart of the reader , or add any charm to the enchantments of that city , which has fewer personal associations than any other ...
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Сторінка 221 - With deep affection And recollection I often think on Those Shandon bells ; Whose sounds so wild would, In the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On thee I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee ; With thy
Сторінка 222 - the Tiber, Pealing solemnly Oh the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee ! " There's a bell in Moscow ; While on tower and kiosk, 0, In Saint Sophia, The Turkman gets; And loud in air Calls
Сторінка 122 - her cold finger closer to her lips. Along the margin-sand large foot-marks went, No further than to where his feet had stray'd, And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred ; and his realmless eyes were closed ; While his bow'd head seem'd listening to the Earth, His ancient mother, for some
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Сторінка 155 - We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned them, Two thousand head of cattle, And the head of him that owned them. Ednyfed, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied our feasts, And his overthrow our chorus.
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Сторінка 155 - Vawr will be found, if they chance to strike the reader's ear and fancy, to be one of those utterances of genius which prove applicable to all the circumstances of life. " The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter ; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition, We met a host and quelled it, We