 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...— the stars of the sky, and everything " about, around, and underneath " man, except man himself. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death,...the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment.' Byron, vol. vp 66. WRIGHT. Sir Walter Scott said ' that he had more pleasure in reading London, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...— the stars of the sky, and everything " about, around, and underneath " man, except man himself. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death,...the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment.' Byron, vol. vp 66. WRIGHT. Sir Walter Scott said ' that he had more pleasure in reading London, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 528 pages
...thing 'about, around, and underneath* man, except man himself, who has always been, and always и ill be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives...to the old one, except the p— first and freedom afterward* — (he ¡alter a fine thing, particularly as they gave it lo Eurupe in exchange for slavery.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 576 pages
...— the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing ' about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been, and...be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conducts but to death, and the infinity of wishes leads but to disappointment. All the discoveries... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.), Thomas Moore - 1831 - 626 pages
...— the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath* man, except man himself, who has always been, and...infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the inanity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1831 - 572 pages
...— the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing ' about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been, and...be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conducts but to death, and the infinity of wishes leads but to disappointment. All the discoveries... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 592 pages
...— the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing ' about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been, and...been made have multiplied little but existence. An extirpat ed disease is succeeded by some new pestilence; and a discovered world has brought little... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 674 pages
...earth — the bounds of the sea — the stars of the ' sky, and every thing " about, around, and under' neath" man, except man himself, who has always ' been,...have ' multiplied little but existence. An extirpated dis' ease is succeeded by some new pestilence ; and a ' discovered world has brought little to the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 678 pages
...earth — the bounds of the sea — the stars of the ' sky, and every thing " about, around, and under' neath" man, except man himself, who has always ' been,...have ' multiplied little but existence. An extirpated dis' ease is succeeded by some new pestilence ; and a ' discovered world has brought little to the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...— the stars of the sky, and every thing ' about, around, and underneath ' man, except mari himsetf, who has always been, and always will be, an unlucky...the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment." — B. Diary, 1821.] (2) [ " my May of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf." — Macbeth.]... | |
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Tis a grand poem — and so true! — true as the 10th of Juvenal himself. The lapse of ages changes all things — time — language — the earth — the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath' man,... 
