 But I have lived, and have not lived in vain ; My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire; And my frame perish even in conquering pain, But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire...  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Page 184by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 287 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1891 - 444 pages
...nobility and power Did 'gage them both in an unjust behalf? " King Henry IV., Part I., act i. sc. 3. " My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire, And...tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire." Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iv. 137. " Now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also... | |
 | Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1924 - 516 pages
...Have I not had my brain seared, my heart riven, Hopes sapped, name blighted, Life's life hid away ? But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire ". *** In was on July 1 — having made a beginning on June 26 — that he sent to Murray in a letter... | |
 | John Louis DiGaetani, Josef P. Sirefman - 1994 - 322 pages
...premiere did include the more traditionally quoted "epitaph" Byron wrote for himself in this same passage: But there is that within me which shall tire Torture...Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain; Bat there is that within me which snail tire Tortare hon in mine ; We were and are — I am, even as thou artBeings who ne'er each other can res remember' cl tone of a mate lyre, Shall on their soften'd spirits sink, and move In heart« all rocky... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - 1995 - 276 pages
...poet that he will survive as his own more malleable monumentum acre perennius: But there is that in me which shall tire Torture and time, and breathe...Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky... | |
 | Kay Redfield Jamison - 1996 - 388 pages
...would have appreciated the two lines chosen for his epitaph, taken from a stanza in Childe Harold: But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind...Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...without utterance, save the shrug or sigh, Deal round to happy fools its speechless obloquy. CXXXVII 1225 But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind...tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire; cxxxv 555 CHILDE HAROLD S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO IV CXXXVIII The seal is set. - Now welcome, thou dread... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...vain: My mind may lose its force, my blood its tire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain; Bui there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire. Chiliie Harold's Pilgrimage (181218) canto 4, St. 137 3 There were his young barbarians all at play,... | |
 | Jerome McGann - 2002 - 332 pages
...undertakes, puts no period to the dialectic. As Byron says in the fourth canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: But there is that within me which shall tire Torture...expire; Something unearthly, which they deem not of. (st. 137) To achieve this peculiar kind of immortality requires a perpetuation of resistance and strife,... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 2003 - 280 pages
...the opening of Byron's famous self-elegizing in the climax to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, IV (1818): But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind...Something unearthly, which they deem not of. Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky... | |
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