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The book features an extensive compilation of Lord Byron's poetry, plays, and prose, showcasing his diverse literary talent. Each piece is accompanied by detailed illustrations that enhance the reader's experience. This illustrated edition is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of Lord Byron's work.
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“Eternity forbids thee to forget.”
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“The law of heaven and earth is life for life.”
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“I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.”
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“Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.”
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“Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.”
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“Fill high the cup with Samian wine!”
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“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!”
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“Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.”
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“Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!”
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“There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.”
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“Damn description, it is always disgusting.”
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“Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!”
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“Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.”
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“The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.”
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“Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.”
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“We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?”
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“Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.”
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“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!”
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“By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.”
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“There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.”
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“Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.”
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“But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.”
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“What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?”
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“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”
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“In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.”
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“I learned to love despair.”
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“I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.”
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“Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.”
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“Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.”
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“Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.”
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“Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.”
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“And hold up to the sun my little taper.”
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“Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.”
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“A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.”
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“Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!”
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“Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.”
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“And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.”
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“And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.”
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“Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.”
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“To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!”
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“Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?”
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“Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?”
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“May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.”
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“So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.”
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“Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.”
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“Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.”
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“And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.”
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“Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.”
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“Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.”
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“The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.”
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