The Idler in Italy, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1839 |
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... thought . I looked often at the pictures , and the various objects of use and decoration in the apart- ments , with a sort of melancholy feeling , that I had not anticipated I should experience on undertaking a pleasurable tour - a tour ...
... thought . I looked often at the pictures , and the various objects of use and decoration in the apart- ments , with a sort of melancholy feeling , that I had not anticipated I should experience on undertaking a pleasurable tour - a tour ...
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... thought she looked reproachfully at him , for having deserted her in this her first trial in wedded life . Ah ! fair lady , it will be well if you have not , hereafter , greater proofs of man's selfishness ! A sea voyage , however short ...
... thought she looked reproachfully at him , for having deserted her in this her first trial in wedded life . Ah ! fair lady , it will be well if you have not , hereafter , greater proofs of man's selfishness ! A sea voyage , however short ...
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... thought not some of our friends , who were eloquent on the abomi- nation of charging extravagantly for fare that was only fit for those who look more to the quantity than to the quality . 5th . - I have passed the morning in descending ...
... thought not some of our friends , who were eloquent on the abomi- nation of charging extravagantly for fare that was only fit for those who look more to the quantity than to the quality . 5th . - I have passed the morning in descending ...
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... thoughts must have been mournful at such moments , when a prisoner on a rock in the ocean , looking only for deliverance by death , and re- minded by the willow of those in the far - off land of his glory , he felt that few , if any ...
... thoughts must have been mournful at such moments , when a prisoner on a rock in the ocean , looking only for deliverance by death , and re- minded by the willow of those in the far - off land of his glory , he felt that few , if any ...
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... thoughts to the Divinity that created you and us ; you , to endure for ages , and we , but for a brief span , yet gifted with aspirations that mount beyond you , ay , even to the throne of the power that formed both ! The first view of ...
... thoughts to the Divinity that created you and us ; you , to endure for ages , and we , but for a brief span , yet gifted with aspirations that mount beyond you , ay , even to the throne of the power that formed both ! The first view of ...
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Page 28 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony ; And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 49 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 49 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of 11 and 12, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 28 - He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday— All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged?
Page 28 - He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. He reck'd not of the life he lost, nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday.
Page 31 - The learned SMELFUNGUS travelled from Boulogne to Paris from Paris to Rome and so on but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings.
Page 288 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Page 49 - I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene: the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting...
Page 139 - La vita fugge e non s' arresta un' ora; E la morte vien dietro a gran giornate; E le cose presenti e le passate Mi danno guerra, e le future ancora; E '1 rimembrar e 1' aspettar m' accora Or quinci or quindi sì, che 'n veritate, Se non eh' i' ho di me stesso pietate, I' sarei già di questi pensier fora.
Page 286 - Byron requested to be presented to me ; which led to Lord Blessington's avowing that I was in the carriage at the gate, with my sister. Byron immediately hurried out into the court, and I, who heard the sound of steps, looked through the gate, and beheld him approaching quickly towards the carriage without his hat, and considerably in advance of the other two gentlemen.