The poetical works of lord Byron, Page 12, Volume 4 |
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... cause of which is left half unexplained . " Yet the cause is not so dimly shadowed forth , but that the poet has made it obvious , that the hero and his sister- " Had loved each other as they should not love ; " that this lawless ...
... cause of which is left half unexplained . " Yet the cause is not so dimly shadowed forth , but that the poet has made it obvious , that the hero and his sister- " Had loved each other as they should not love ; " that this lawless ...
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... cause in its effect ; and drew From wither'd bones , and skulls , and heap'd up dust , Conclusions most forbidden . Then I pass'd The nights of years in sciences untaught , Save in the old time ; and with time and toil , And terrible ...
... cause in its effect ; and drew From wither'd bones , and skulls , and heap'd up dust , Conclusions most forbidden . Then I pass'd The nights of years in sciences untaught , Save in the old time ; and with time and toil , And terrible ...
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... cause he shall not harm thee — but His sight may shock thine old limbs into palsy . I say to thee Retire ! Abbot . And I reply- Never - till I have battled with this fiend : - What doth he here ? * Man . Why - ay - what doth he here ? I ...
... cause he shall not harm thee — but His sight may shock thine old limbs into palsy . I say to thee Retire ! Abbot . And I reply- Never - till I have battled with this fiend : - What doth he here ? * Man . Why - ay - what doth he here ? I ...
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... . His account is false and flippant , full of stale jests about old men and young wives , and wondering at so great an effect from so slight a cause . How so acute and severe an observer of mankind as the author 58 PREFACE .
... . His account is false and flippant , full of stale jests about old men and young wives , and wondering at so great an effect from so slight a cause . How so acute and severe an observer of mankind as the author 58 PREFACE .
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... cause to be able to awaken sympathy ? It is little to the purpose to say that this is all historically true . A thing may be true without being probable ; and such a case of idiosyncrasy as is implied in a resentment so sudden and ...
... cause to be able to awaken sympathy ? It is little to the purpose to say that this is all historically true . A thing may be true without being probable ; and such a case of idiosyncrasy as is implied in a resentment so sudden and ...
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Page 43 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 183 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 41 - gin to fear that thou art past all aid From me and from my calling; yet so young, I still would — MAN. Look on me ! there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death ; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness, Some of disease, and some insanity, And some of wither'd or of broken hearts ; For this last is a malady which slays More than are number'd in the lists of...
Page 51 - Thou didst not tempt me, and thou couldst not tempt me ; I have not been thy dupe, nor am thy prey — But was my own destroyer, and will be My own hereafter. — Back, ye baffled fiends ! The hand of death is on me — but not yours ! [The Demons disappear.
Page 15 - There is a power upon me which withholds, And makes it my fatality to live ; If it be life to wear within myself This barrenness of spirit and to be My own soul's sepulchre, for I have ceased SYRON.
Page 13 - And a magic voice and verse Hath baptized thee with a curse ; And a spirit of the air Hath begirt thee with a snare ; In the wind there is a voice Shall forbid thee to rejoice ; And to thee shall Night deny All the quiet of her sky ; And the day shall have a sun, Which shall make thee wish it done.
Page 131 - Softened with the first breathings of the spring; The high moon sails upon her beauteous way, Serenely smoothing o'er the lofty walls Of those tall piles and sea-girt palaces, Whose porphyry pillars, and whose costly fronts, Fraught with the orient spoil of many marbles, Like altars ranged along the broad canal, Seem each a trophy of some mighty deed Reared up from out the waters...
Page 6 - The lamp must be replenish'd, but even then It will not burn so long as I must watch : My slumbers — if I slumber— are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not : in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within ; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
Page 10 - Slaves, scoff not at my will ! The mind, the spirit, the Promethean spark, The lightning of my being, is as bright, Pervading, and far darting as your own, And shall not yield to yours, though coop'd in clay ! Answer, or I will teach you what I am.
Page 25 - She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe : nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I hod not ; And tenderness — but that I had for her ; Humility — and that I never had. Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own— I loved her, and destroy'd her ! Witch.