Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V.Thomas Davison, 1821 - 218 pagina's |
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Pagina 17
... a troop of his domestics dancing Like dervises , who turn as on a pivot , he Perceived it was the Pyrrhic dance so martial , To which the Levantines are very partial . XXX . And further on a group of Grecian girls CANTO III . 17 DON JUAN .
... a troop of his domestics dancing Like dervises , who turn as on a pivot , he Perceived it was the Pyrrhic dance so martial , To which the Levantines are very partial . XXX . And further on a group of Grecian girls CANTO III . 17 DON JUAN .
Pagina 18
... dancing ; each too having Down her white neck long floating auburn curls— ( The least of which would set ten poets raving ) ; Their leader sang - and bounded to her song , With choral step and voice , the virgin throng . XXXI . And here ...
... dancing ; each too having Down her white neck long floating auburn curls— ( The least of which would set ten poets raving ) ; Their leader sang - and bounded to her song , With choral step and voice , the virgin throng . XXXI . And here ...
Pagina 20
... dance , wine , music , stories from the Persian , All pretty pastimes in which no offence is ; But Lambro saw all these things with aversion , Perceiving in his absence such expenses , Dreading that climax of all human ills , The ...
... dance , wine , music , stories from the Persian , All pretty pastimes in which no offence is ; But Lambro saw all these things with aversion , Perceiving in his absence such expenses , Dreading that climax of all human ills , The ...
Pagina 22
... dancing , wine , and fiddling , Which turn'd the isle into a place of pleasure ; The servants all were getting drunk or idling , A life which made them happy beyond measure . Her father's hospitality seem'd middling , Compared with what ...
... dancing , wine , and fiddling , Which turn'd the isle into a place of pleasure ; The servants all were getting drunk or idling , A life which made them happy beyond measure . Her father's hospitality seem'd middling , Compared with what ...
Pagina 42
... dancing girls , black eunuchs , and a poet , Which made their new establishment complete ; The last was of great fame , and liked to show it : His verses rarely wanted their due feet- And for his theme - he seldom sung below it , He ...
... dancing girls , black eunuchs , and a poet , Which made their new establishment complete ; The last was of great fame , and liked to show it : His verses rarely wanted their due feet- And for his theme - he seldom sung below it , He ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
aught Ave Maria Baba beauty blood Bosphorus breast bright brow CANTO chain'd cheek CIII Circassian clime dance dead death deep DON JUAN doubt e'er earth eunuch face fair fame father's feelings gazed giaour gild gold grave grew grow Gulleyaz gun barrel Haidée and Juan Haidée's hand head heard heart Heaven Hellespont hour human human clay isle Juan's kiss knew lady Lambro least link'd look'd looks lover LXXII maid marble mere christian muse ne'er never Note o'er once pair pale Parnassian passions pause Perhaps poet present Pyrrhic dance quoth renegado rhyme round Samian wine scarce seem'd seems sherbets shore show'd sigh sing sire slaves smile song sorrow stanza stood strange sung sweet tears There's things third sex thou thought tomb true turn'd twas twere waves Whate'er wish word young Φερεις
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Pagina 47 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse: Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires
Pagina 218 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Pagina 62 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way, As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay.
Pagina 49 - Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain: strike other chords; Fill high the cup with Samian wine! Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine! Hark! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold Bacchanal I You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one...
Pagina 52 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Pagina 46 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Pagina 74 - ... strange design Against the creed and morals of the land, And trace it in this poem every line: I don't pretend that I quite understand My own meaning when I would be very fine; But the fact is that I have nothing plann'd, Unless it were to be a moment merry, A novel word in my vocabulary.
Pagina 73 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy...
Pagina 60 - tis the hour of prayer ! Ave Maria ! 'tis the hour of love ! Ave Maria ! may our spirits dare Look up to thine and to thy Son's above ! Ave Maria ! oh, that face so fair ! Those downcast eyes beneath the Almighty Dove — What though 'tis but a pictured image strike — That painting is no idol, 'tis too like.
Pagina 61 - Sweet hour of twilight ! — in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood...