The Oxford Entertaining Miscellany, Or, Weekly Magazine: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors, Original Communications, &c., &c, Volume 1F. Trash, 1824 |
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Pagina 6
... LORD BYRON . THERE is not , we feel assured , a single reader of this Work who does not participate in that feeling of beauty and tenderness , 6.
... LORD BYRON . THERE is not , we feel assured , a single reader of this Work who does not participate in that feeling of beauty and tenderness , 6.
Pagina 7
... Lord Byron . The distinguishing feature of his Lordship's poetry is elo- quence , and that of the most ve- hement character . His verse rushes on with the rapidity of a cataract , carrying our ideas im- petuously along in such a manner ...
... Lord Byron . The distinguishing feature of his Lordship's poetry is elo- quence , and that of the most ve- hement character . His verse rushes on with the rapidity of a cataract , carrying our ideas im- petuously along in such a manner ...
Pagina 19
... LORD BYRON . ( Continued from page 8. ) Yet all this giddy waste of years , This tiresome round of palling pleasures ; These varied loves , these matron's fears , These thoughtless strains to pas sion's measures . But , now , I seek for ...
... LORD BYRON . ( Continued from page 8. ) Yet all this giddy waste of years , This tiresome round of palling pleasures ; These varied loves , these matron's fears , These thoughtless strains to pas sion's measures . But , now , I seek for ...
Pagina 20
... Lord Byron revisited his native shores , and exhibited the advantages of travelling in his 6 Childe Harold , " the plan of which was laid in Albania and prosecuted at Athens , where it received some of its finest touches and most ...
... Lord Byron revisited his native shores , and exhibited the advantages of travelling in his 6 Childe Harold , " the plan of which was laid in Albania and prosecuted at Athens , where it received some of its finest touches and most ...
Pagina 21
... Lord Byron suddenly left the kingdom with a resolution never to return . He crossed over to France , through which he passed rapidly to Brussels , taking in his way a survey of the field of Waterloo . After visiting some of the most ...
... Lord Byron suddenly left the kingdom with a resolution never to return . He crossed over to France , through which he passed rapidly to Brussels , taking in his way a survey of the field of Waterloo . After visiting some of the most ...
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Pagina 36 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Pagina 21 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Pagina 82 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Pagina 22 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae!
Pagina 34 - Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank...
Pagina 27 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pagina 80 - Doom'd, as I am, in solitude to waste The present moments, and regret the past ; Depriv'd of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear, this anxious mien, The dull effect of humour, or of spleen ! Still, still, I mourn, with each returning day, Him* snatch'd by fate in early youth away. And her— thro...
Pagina 22 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Pagina 22 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks, — They have a king who buys and sells : In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Pagina 150 - I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our...