...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...

...than those two cantos into families;" Together with his lordship's acknowledgment, that " Now my lost fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf/ and imagination droops her pinion, And the last truth which borers o er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque*" Two things yet appear...

...than those two cantos into families;" Together with his lordship's acknowledgment, that " Now my lost fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and imagination droops her pinion, And the last truth which hovers o er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque-" Two things yet appear...

...opinion ; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy ' ' falls into the yellow " Leaf,"...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...

...opinion , They took it up 'when my days grew more mellow, And other minds aknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy' ,, falls into the yellow ,,Leaf,"...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...

...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 not weep ; and if I weep, "Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] Such is not...

...opinion ; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow " Leaf,"...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...

...same opinion; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and...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...

...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. " the habit of sending Hobhouse,...

...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...