Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 pages |
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... Lady Byron's Letter , 18 Jan. 1816 ) . He tells Moore ( Letter 461 ) in 1821 that a dose of salts gave him most exhilaration . Occasional indulgences varied this course . Moore describes a supper ( 19 May 1814 ) when he finished two or ...
... Lady Byron's Letter , 18 Jan. 1816 ) . He tells Moore ( Letter 461 ) in 1821 that a dose of salts gave him most exhilaration . Occasional indulgences varied this course . Moore describes a supper ( 19 May 1814 ) when he finished two or ...
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... Lady Byron , and ' Parisina , ' written the same autumn , appeared in January and February 1816. Murray gave 700l . for ' Lara ' and 500 guineas for each of the others . Dallas wrote to the papers in February 1814 , defending his noble ...
... Lady Byron , and ' Parisina , ' written the same autumn , appeared in January and February 1816. Murray gave 700l . for ' Lara ' and 500 guineas for each of the others . Dallas wrote to the papers in February 1814 , defending his noble ...
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... Lady Byron ) thought that a profound melancholy was in reality his dominant mood . He had reasons enough in his money em- barrassments and in dangerous entanglements . Fashionable women adored the beautiful young poet and tried to ...
... Lady Byron ) thought that a profound melancholy was in reality his dominant mood . He had reasons enough in his money em- barrassments and in dangerous entanglements . Fashionable women adored the beautiful young poet and tried to ...
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... Byron from Ireland till on the eve of her return she received a brutal letter from him ( printed in ' Glenarvon ... Lady Oxford's coronet and initials , threw Lady Caroline into a fit , which involved leeching , bleeding , and bed ...
... Byron from Ireland till on the eve of her return she received a brutal letter from him ( printed in ' Glenarvon ... Lady Oxford's coronet and initials , threw Lady Caroline into a fit , which involved leeching , bleeding , and bed ...
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... lady's vanity was equally flattered by the thought of effecting such a con- version . Byron was pre - eminently a man who combined strange infirmity of will with overpowering gusts of passion . He drifted indolently as long as drifting ...
... lady's vanity was equally flattered by the thought of effecting such a con- version . Byron was pre - eminently a man who combined strange infirmity of will with overpowering gusts of passion . He drifted indolently as long as drifting ...
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Page 617 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 73 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 80 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 459 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 63 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 371 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Page 317 - Etouffe dans la foule, Faute d'etre assez grand ; Une plainte touchante De ma bouche sortit ; Le bon Dieu me dit : Chante, Chante, pauvre petit ! Chanter, ou je m'abuse, Est ma tache ici-bas. Tous ceux qu'ainsi j'amuse, Ne m'aimeront-ils pas...
Page 325 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 212 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Page 454 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].