...production, ' Don Juan,' he tells us that his ' sere fancy has fallen ' into the yellow leaf : ' — ' And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.' It was in ' Beppo : a Venetian Story ' that he dropped, for the first time, the weapon of trenchant...

...mellow, And other minds aknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy' ,, falls into the yellow ,,Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk IV. And if I laugh at any mortal tiiing, Tis that I may not weep ; and if I \vecp, 'Tis that eur nature...

...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy ' ' falls into the yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk II. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature...

...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may...our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] Such is not the experience of the Christian, who, weeping with those that...

...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature...

...grief, or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I...our nature cannot always bring " Itself to apathy" &c. " the habit of sending Hobhouse, to whom I wrote on my " first wedding-day, and continue to write...

...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to hurlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that...

...or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !'' C/ii/dc Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I may not wee]) ; — and if I weep,. " drive away the memory of it, and make " me forget. • " I will give...

...grief, or gladness !—so it fling Forgetfulness around me.!" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep;—and if I weep, "Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy" &c, Don Juan, Canto...

...the conviction which it has brought him of the uttcr vanity of all things human: And the sad Iruth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must sleep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring Ere what we least wish to bf.hold will...