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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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“What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.”
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“Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.”
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“The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.”
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“Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.”
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“I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!”
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“Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!”
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“I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.”
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“The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!”
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“I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.”
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“No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.”
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“Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.”
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“Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!”
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“Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.”
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“The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.”
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“A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?”
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“And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!”
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“When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past -
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.”
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“In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears”
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“Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.”
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“But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.”
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“And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.”
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“So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.”
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“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”
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“As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.”
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“This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.”
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“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
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“The busy have no time for tears.”
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“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”
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“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”
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“Prolonged endurance tames the bold.”
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“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
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“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
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“Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?”
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“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
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“Despair and Genius are too oft connected”
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“The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.”
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“In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee”
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“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”
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“And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.”
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“Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.”
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“Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.”
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“Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year.”
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“Think not I am what I appear.”
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“My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.”
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“Socrates said, our only knowledge was
"To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant
Science enough, which levels to an ass
Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas!
Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
That he himself felt only "like a youth
Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."”
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“In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.”
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“Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.”
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“Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another kind of ignorance.”
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“This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.”
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“I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.”
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