Marino Faliero. Sardanapulus. The two Foscari. Notes on Captain Medwin's "Conversations of Lord Byron"John Murray, 1831 |
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ARBACES Assyria aught avait Bactria BARBARIGO bear behold Beleses Bertram BERTUCCIO blood breath Calendaro Chief conseil des dix Council Council of Ten dare death Doge Doge of Venice dost ducal Duke duty earth Enter Euphrates Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel foes Foscari Galignani Guards hath hear heart Heaven honour hour king leave Lioni live look lord Lord Byron LOREDANO Marino Faliero Mede Michel Steno monarch Murray Myrrha ne'er never noble o'er palace PANIA passion patrician peril pray prince qu'il république Salemenes Sanuto SARDANAPALUS satraps Semiramis senate SFERO shame signor sire slaves soldier soul sovereign spare speak sword thee thine things thou hast thought throne torture traitors Treviso true trust twas Twill unto Venice Venise wilt words wouldst wretch
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Page 61 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 165 - TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OF A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE LORD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITERS, WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND ILLUSTRATED THAT OF EUROPE.
Page 91 - Soften'd with the first breathings of the spring ; The high moon sails upon her beauteous way, Serenely smoothing o'er the lofty walls Of those tall piles and sea-girt palaces, Whose porphyry pillars, and whose costly fronts, Fraught with the orient spoil of many marbles, Like altars ranged along the broad canal, Seem each a trophy of some mighty deed Rear'd up from out the waters, scarce less strangely Than those more massy and mysterious giants Of architecture, those Titanian fabrics, Which point...
Page 91 - Rear'd up from out the waters, scarce less strangely Than those more massy and mysterious giants Of architecture, those Titanian fabrics, Which point in Egypt's plains to times that have No other record. All is gentle : nought Stirs rudely ; but, congenial with the night, Whatever walks is gliding like a spirit.
Page 181 - I leave such things to conquerors; enough For me, if I can make my subjects feel The weight of human misery less, and glide Ungroaning to the tomb; I take no license Which I deny to them.
Page 282 - Let's not unman each other: part at once: All farewells should be sudden, when for ever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.