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... obliged to inclose you , luckily for me , this second proof , corrected , because there is an ingenuity in hist blunders peculiar to himself . Let the press be guided by the present sheet . Burn the other . Yours , etc. Correct this ...
... obliged to inclose you , luckily for me , this second proof , corrected , because there is an ingenuity in hist blunders peculiar to himself . Let the press be guided by the present sheet . Burn the other . Yours , etc. Correct this ...
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... obliging letter1 was very welcome , and not the less so for being 1. Murray had written , on February 3 , 1814 , a letter , from which the following passages are extracted : — " I have been unwilling to write until I had something to ...
... obliging letter1 was very welcome , and not the less so for being 1. Murray had written , on February 3 , 1814 , a letter , from which the following passages are extracted : — " I have been unwilling to write until I had something to ...
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... obliged and sincere , BYRON . P.S. - Since this letter was written , I have been at your text , which has much good humour in every sense of the word . Your notes are of a very high order indeed , particularly on Wordsworth . " " as it ...
... obliged and sincere , BYRON . P.S. - Since this letter was written , I have been at your text , which has much good humour in every sense of the word . Your notes are of a very high order indeed , particularly on Wordsworth . " " as it ...
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... obliged and very obedient servant , BYRON . 417. - To John Murray . Feb. 25 , 1814 . You never Pray what the Devil may all this be ? heard from me of any " letter , " nor did I ever hear a word on the subject from D [ allas ] , nor do I ...
... obliged and very obedient servant , BYRON . 417. - To John Murray . Feb. 25 , 1814 . You never Pray what the Devil may all this be ? heard from me of any " letter , " nor did I ever hear a word on the subject from D [ allas ] , nor do I ...
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... oblige me as to step down , do so ; and if you are otherwise occupied , say nothing about it . I shall find you at home in the course of next week . Yours truly , B. P.S. - I see Sotheby's tragedies1 advertized . The D [ eath ] of ...
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Page 272 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 334 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 419 - Fugge tra selve spaventose e scure, per lochi inabitati, ermi e selvaggi. Il mover de le frondi e di verzure, che di cerri sentia, d'olmi e di faggi, fatto le avea con subite paure trovar di qua di là strani viaggi; ch'ad ogni ombra veduta o in monte o in valle, temea Rinaldo aver sempre alle spalle.
Page 40 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him: — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt.
Page 80 - I SPEAK not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name, There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame : But the tear which now burns on my cheek may impart The deep thoughts that dwell in that silence of heart.
Page 448 - Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated ; galvanism had given token of such things : perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.
Page 89 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 239 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 64 - And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Page 358 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.