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" The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. "
The Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals - Page 320
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 735 pages
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The Frater of Psi Omega, Volumes 1-2

1901 - 638 pages
...I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life was a contest,...since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift,— a fate, or will, that walked astray." And, again, in Manfred, Byron doubtless refers...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 660 pages
...have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. IV. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life was a contest,...since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray ; * And I at times have found the struggle...
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Poetical Works of Lord Byron: The prisoner of Chillon. Poems of July ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 632 pages
...have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. nr. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life was a contest,...since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray ; * And I at times have found the struggle...
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The English Poets: Wordsworth to Tennyson

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1902 - 850 pages
...I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life was a contest,...That gave me being, gave me that which marr'd The gift,—a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...l have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and 30 But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. Kingdoms and empires...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. I Mine were my faults, and d In one shrunk heap what once made many heroes, 20 But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next cau well arrive. Kingdoms and empires...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...The careful pilot of my proper woe. 'Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life waa ther scene One cannot but recall, by way of contrast, the words of Mrs. Shelley in regard to her exalted companion....
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Works, Volume 4

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 632 pages
...have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. IV. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life was a contest,...since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift,—a fate, or will, that walked astray;* And I at times have found the struggle hard,...
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The Complete Poetical Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...have been cnnning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. 'Mine were my faults, and le where the dead Are honour'd by the nations — let it be, And ligh pave me being, gave me that which marr'd The gift, —a fate, or will, that walk'd astray.' One cannot...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 pages
...brother to William, fifth Lord Byron, published his Narr-xh-t, of his shipwreck in the Wager, in 1768.] And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. Kingdoms and Empires in my...
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