 I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my deathbed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to your...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 317by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - 1999 - 264 pages
...burying Ground at the Lido.. .will see those two words [implora pace], and no more, put over me... I am sure my Bones would not rest in an English grave... I would not even feed your worms - if I could help it." (Byron 1973-1983, vol. 6, 149.) The weeds of... | |
 | 1900 - 624 pages
...abroad for a term, among the few allies our wars have left us.' Eight years later he wrote to Murray : ' I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave or my clay mix with the earth of that country.' Byron was so English, English even in that, in its lofty petulance ; and he had the characteristically... | |
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