The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With a Memoir, Volume 5Hurd and Houghton, 1879 |
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Page 5
... never intended to be serious . Do you sup- pose that I could have any intention but to giggle and make giggle ? -a playful satire , with as little poetry as could be helped , was what I meant . And as to the indecency , do , pray , read ...
... never intended to be serious . Do you sup- pose that I could have any intention but to giggle and make giggle ? -a playful satire , with as little poetry as could be helped , was what I meant . And as to the indecency , do , pray , read ...
Page 7
... never before so triumphantly approved- that the same compass of talent - ' the grave , the gay , the great , the small , ' comic force , humor , metaphysics , and observation — boundless fancy and ethereal beauty , and curious knowledge ...
... never before so triumphantly approved- that the same compass of talent - ' the grave , the gay , the great , the small , ' comic force , humor , metaphysics , and observation — boundless fancy and ethereal beauty , and curious knowledge ...
Page 8
... never shook his head more sagely than V. THE STATESMAN . " This is a very large book , affecting many mysteries , but possessing very few ; assuming much originality , though it hath it not . The author is wrong to pursue so eccentric a ...
... never shook his head more sagely than V. THE STATESMAN . " This is a very large book , affecting many mysteries , but possessing very few ; assuming much originality , though it hath it not . The author is wrong to pursue so eccentric a ...
Page 9
... Never was English festooned into more luxuriant stan- zas than in Don Juan . Like the dolphin sporting in its native waves , at every turn , however grotesque , displaying a new hue and a new beauty , the noble author has shown an ...
... Never was English festooned into more luxuriant stan- zas than in Don Juan . Like the dolphin sporting in its native waves , at every turn , however grotesque , displaying a new hue and a new beauty , the noble author has shown an ...
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... never exhibited in a shape of more deplorable degradation than in his own contemptuously distinct delineation of himself . To confess to his Maker , and weep over in secret agonies , the wildest and most fantastic transgressions of ...
... never exhibited in a shape of more deplorable degradation than in his own contemptuously distinct delineation of himself . To confess to his Maker , and weep over in secret agonies , the wildest and most fantastic transgressions of ...
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Adeline Baba beauty blood called CANTO Cavalier Servente charm chaste Childe Harold Circassian Courland death deem devil Don Juan doubt dream Duc de Richelieu Dudù e'er earth eunuch eyes fair fame feelings gazed gentle Giaour glory grace Gulbeyaz Haidée hath head heard heart heaven hero Hist hour human human clay Juan's Julia kind king knew lady late least leave less light live look Lord Byron LXXXIII marriage mind moral Muse ne'er never night nought o'er once passed passion Perhaps poem poet pretty Prince de Ligne rhyme Samian wine scarce seemed seen sigh sleep smile soul spirit stood strange sublime Suwarrow sweet tears tell there's things thou thought true truth turn Twas virtue Voltaire whate'er wish women words young youth