 | 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...have multiplied little but existence. An extirpated disease is succeeded by some new pestilence ; and a discovered world has brought little to the old... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 618 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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 678 pages
...line, " Let observation," &c. is certainly ' heavy and useless. But 'tis a grand poem — and .to ' true! — true as the 10th of Juvenal himself. The...discovered world has brought little to the old one, ' except the p — first and freedom afterwards — the ' latter a fine thing, particularly as they... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 404 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...have multiplied little but existence. An extirpated disease is succeeded by some new pestilence ; and a discovered world has brought little to the old... | |
 | 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.]... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 364 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 con. duct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment." — B. Diary, 1821J... | |
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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,... 
