Correspondence of lord Byron, with a friend, including his letters to his mother. Also, recollections of the poet. by R. C. Dallas, and a continuation by A. R. C. Dallas |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
affidavit afterwards Albanian Ali Pacha alterations appear arrived Athens Bards believe Cadiz called Canto Cawthorn character Childe Harold's Pilgrimage circumstances Constantinople correspondence Dallas's DEAR MOTHER DEAR SIR death deponent Edinburgh Review edition England English executors expressed fame feel Fletcher frigate GALIGNANI gave genius George Anson Byron Gifford going abroad Greece Greek hand heard heart Hobhouse Hobhouse's Honourable MRS BYRON hope inserted intended June Lady late leave left England Leigh letter lines London Lord Byron Lordship Malta mentioned mind Morea Murray Muse nature never Newstead Abbey opinion Pacha Patras perhaps person pleasure poem poet praise Pray present proof publication published R. C. DALLAS racter received Recollections rhyme Rochdale Satire seen sent sincerely St James's-street stanzas swears thing thought tion town travels Troad truly verse wish write written wrote
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 79 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
الصفحة 79 - Newstead and I stand or fall together. I have now lived on the spot, I have fixed my heart upon it, and no pressure, present or future, shall induce me to barter the last vestige of our inheritance. I have that pride within me which will enable me to support difficulties. I can endure privations ; but could I obtain in exchange for Newstead Abbey the first fortune in the country, I would reject the proposition.
الصفحة 28 - n più deserto lido, Tanto più bella il mio pensier l'adombra. Poi quando il vero sgombra Quel dolce error, pur li medesmo assido Me freddo, pietra morta in pietra viva, In guisa d'uom che pensi e pianga e scriva.
الصفحة 84 - ... description natural and artificial. Palaces and gardens rising in the midst of rocks, cataracts and precipices; convents on stupendous heights — a distant view of the sea and the Tagus; and besides (though that is a secondary consideration) is remarkable as the scene of Sir Hew Dalrymple's Convention. It unites in itself all the wildness of the Western Highlands with the verdure of the south of France.
الصفحة 48 - He passed the woolsack without looking round, and advanced to the table where the proper officer was attending to administer the oaths. When he had gone through them, the Chancellor quitted his seat, and went towards him with a smile, putting out his hand warmly to welcome him; and, though I did not catch his words, I saw that he paid him some compliment. This was all thrown away upon Lord Byron, who made a stiff bow, and put the tips of his fingers into the Chancellor's hand. The Chancellor did...
الصفحة 16 - In morality, I prefer Confucius to the Ten Commandments, and Socrates to St. Paul, though the two latter agree in their opinion of marriage. In religion I favour the Catholic emancipation, but do not acknowledge the Pope; and I have refused to take the Sacrament, because I do not think eating bread or drinking wine from the hand of an earthly vicar will make me an inheritor of heaven. I hold virtue in general, or the virtues severally, to be only in the disposition, each a feeling, not a principle....
الصفحة 196 - Neither Childe Harold, nor any of the most beautiful of Byron's earlier tales, contain more exquisite morsels of poetry than are to be found scattered through the cantos of Don Juan...
الصفحة 40 - The great east window of the church remains, and connects with the house ; the hall entire, the refectory entire, the cloister untouched, with the an'cient cistern of the convent, and, their arms on it ; a private chapel quite perfect.
الصفحة 192 - But his wonderful genius was of a nature which disdained restraint, even when restraint was most wholesome. When at school, the tasks in which he excelled were those only which he undertook voluntarily; and his situation as a young man of rank, with strong passions, and in the uncontrolled enjoyment of a considerable fortune, added to that impatience of strictures or coercion which was natural to him. As an author he refused to plead at the bar of criticism; as a man he would not submit to be morally...
الصفحة 55 - Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine, Their prudent insults to the poor confine ; Afar they mark the flambeau's...