The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 11J. Murray, 1904 |
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... damned to it ) and ruined him . My last letter to you ( from Verona ) was enclosed to Murray - have you got it ? Direct to me here , poste restante . There are no English here at present . There were several in Switzerland - some women ...
... damned to it ) and ruined him . My last letter to you ( from Verona ) was enclosed to Murray - have you got it ? Direct to me here , poste restante . There are no English here at present . There were several in Switzerland - some women ...
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... damned nonsense , swearing the bastards to me , and saying he gave me five hundred guineas for them . He lies - I never wrote such stuff , never saw the poems , nor the publisher of them , in my life , nor had any communication ...
... damned nonsense , swearing the bastards to me , and saying he gave me five hundred guineas for them . He lies - I never wrote such stuff , never saw the poems , nor the publisher of them , in my life , nor had any communication ...
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... damned to him . I shall carefully preserve all the purchases I made of him on that occasion for my return , as the Plague in Turkey is a barrier to travelling there at present , or rather the endless quarantine which would be the conse ...
... damned to him . I shall carefully preserve all the purchases I made of him on that occasion for my return , as the Plague in Turkey is a barrier to travelling there at present , or rather the endless quarantine which would be the conse ...
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... damned barley - water before me . I am still in love , —which is a dreadful drawback in quitting a place , and I can't stay at Venice much longer . What I shall do on this point I don't know . The girl means to go with me , but I do not ...
... damned barley - water before me . I am still in love , —which is a dreadful drawback in quitting a place , and I can't stay at Venice much longer . What I shall do on this point I don't know . The girl means to go with me , but I do not ...
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... damned herself in this ) with the account of her scratching attempt at Canicide ( at Lady Heathcote's ) , and the other a Review of Childe Harold , in which it proclaims me the most rebellious and contu- macious admirer of Buonaparte ...
... damned herself in this ) with the account of her scratching attempt at Canicide ( at Lady Heathcote's ) , and the other a Review of Childe Harold , in which it proclaims me the most rebellious and contu- macious admirer of Buonaparte ...
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Page 490 - Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar Toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 142 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 315 - That honourable day shall ne'er be seen. Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field, Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens; And toil'd with works of war, retir'd himself To Italy; and there at Venice gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.
Page 490 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 149 - Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on : Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may be won. Were't the last drop in the well, As I gasped upon the brink, Ere my fainting spirit fell, Tis to thee that I would drink.
Page 492 - And compass vile; so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy.
Page 146 - Set you down this; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 315 - I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my deathbed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to your soil. I would not even feed your worms, if I could help it.
Page 493 - O may some spark of your celestial fire, The last, the meanest of your sons inspire, (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes,) To teach vain wits a science little known, T' admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Page 285 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.