Don JuanThomas Davison, 1819 - 227 pages |
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Æneids Algiers answer'd Antonia appear'd bark Bay blood Boabdil boat breath Cadiz call'd CANTO Catullus charming chaste cheek dead death devil Don Alfonso Don Jóse Don Juan Donna Inez Donna Julia doubt e'er eyes face fair famish'd feel fond fortes ante friends gazed grew Guadalquivir Haidee hair half hand heart heaven hope hour husband hyæna Juan's kiss knew lady learn'd least lips look'd Lull'd maid mistress moral mother ne'er never night Noah's ark nought o'er ocean open'd pair pass'd passion Pedrillo perhaps pity pray round Save scarce sea-sick seem'd Seville ship shore sigh sleep sleep at last smiled sort soul Spain stanza stood sublime surely tears tell There's things thought Tis sweet true turn'd tutor Twas Twere wave whate'er wife wind wine woman's tale Young Juan youth
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Page 147 - Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Page 147 - Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave...
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Page 113 - My days of love are over; me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow, Can make the fool of which they made before, In short, I must not lead the life I did do; The credulous hope of mutual minds is o'er, The copious use of claret is forbid too, So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Page 5 - I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one...
Page 214 - A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love, And beauty, all concentrating like rays Into one focus, kindled from above ; Such kisses as belong to early days, Where heart and soul, and sense, in concert move...
Page 66 - Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home ; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
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Page 40 - Yet Julia's very coldness still was kind, And tremulously gentle her small hand Withdrew itself from his, but left behind A little pressure, thrilling, and so bland And slight, so very slight, that to the mind 'Twas but a doubt ; but ne'er magician's wand Wrought change with all Armida's fairy art Like what this light touch left on Juan's heart.
Page 130 - And oh ! if e'er I should forget, I swear — But that's impossible, and cannot be — Sooner shall this blue ocean melt to air, Sooner shall earth resolve itself to sea, Than I resign thine image, oh, my fair! Or think of anything, excepting thee ; A mind diseased no remedy can physic...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Don Juan Don Juan, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
| Author | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
| Publisher | Thomas Davison, 1819 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 227 pages |
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