Life and Genius of Lord ByronKnight and Lacey, 1824 - 80 pagina's |
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Pagina 77 - THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late bloom'd in the way.
Pagina 76 - During a great part of his Lordship's minority, the abbey was in the occupation of Lord G , hi» hounds, and divers colonies of jackdaws, swallows, and starlings. The internal traces of this Goth were swept away ; but without, all appeared as rude and unreclaimed as he could have left it.
Pagina 61 - Wi' a widow's ae son, an' a mare's ae foal, Down thou'lt fa'. " Now who knows but the pony may be a ' mare's ae foal;' and we are both ' widow's ae sons ;' but you have a sister, and I have nobody to lament for me but my mother.
Pagina 43 - we are both young and the world is very censorious; and so, if I were to take any active part in the promoting of your subscription, I fear it would do you harm rather than good.
Pagina 31 - ... notice. By this time his observation of the errors and absurdities of many of the usual systems pursued by men, and the inefficiency of the common means adopted for their removal, induced him to turn satirist ; and the bolt of his first effort fell upon the deans and doctors of Cambridge with, a severity and a truth, which there is too much reason to believe has obtained for him their implacable enmity, and still continues to make them groan in anguish and growl for revenge. When about nineteen...
Pagina 27 - This grand-aunt resembled the bard a little, both in her talents, and at least one or two points of her character. She wrote verses of exquisite beauty and considerable power ; and after showing for many years how well she was calculated to be the first ornament of the gay and fashionable world, she left it without any apparent cause, and with perfect indifference, and in a great measure shut herself up from society.
Pagina 67 - ... in the gloom of his imagination and the intractable energy of his passions. Amazing power, variously directed, was the mark by which he was distinguished far above all his contemporaries. His dominion was the sublime, —it was his native home; at intervals he plunged into the lower atmosphere for amusement, but his stay was brief. It was his proper nature to ascend : but on the summit of his elevation, his leading passion was to evince his superiority, by launching his melancholy scorn at mankind....
Pagina 77 - I do not recollect the slightest trace of culture or improvement. The late Lord, a stern and desperate character, who is never mentioned by the neighbouring peasants without a significant shake of the head, might have returned and recognised every thing about him except perhaps an additional crop of weeds.
Pagina 66 - ... approved for moral qualities than Lord Byron — to be more safely followed, or more tenderly beloved; but there lives no man on earth whose sudden departure from it, under the circumstances in which that nobleman was cut off, appears to us more calculated to impress the mind with profound and unmingled mourning. Lord Byron was doomed to pay that price which Nature sometimes charges for stupendous intellect, in the gloom of his imagination, and the intractable energy of his passions.
Pagina 68 - Thus has perished, in the flower of his age, in the noblest of causes, one of the greatest Poets England ever produced. His death, at this moment, is, no doubt, a severe misfortune to the struggling people for whom he has so generously devoted himself. His character we shall not attempt to draw. He had virtues, and he had failings ; the latter were in a great measure the result of the means of indulgence which were placed within his reach at so early a period of his life.