Byron's Childe Harold (canto IV): Prisoner of Chillon and Other SelectionsAmerican Book Company, 1911 - 170 páginas |
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... King of Poland , at whose court he had acquired some knowledge of belles - lettres . An intrigue which he had in the days of his youth , with the wife of a Polish nobleman , having been discovered by her husband , the latter sentenced ...
... King of Poland , at whose court he had acquired some knowledge of belles - lettres . An intrigue which he had in the days of his youth , with the wife of a Polish nobleman , having been discovered by her husband , the latter sentenced ...
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... King went by another road , with some cavaliers . The carriage in which he rode having broken down , he was again put on horseback . To cap the climax of his humiliating misfortunes , he lost his way in the woods during the night ...
... King went by another road , with some cavaliers . The carriage in which he rode having broken down , he was again put on horseback . To cap the climax of his humiliating misfortunes , he lost his way in the woods during the night ...
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... king must lay his limbs at length . 30 Are these the laurels and repose For which the nations strain their strength ? They laid him by a savage tree , In outworn nature's agony ; His wounds were stiff , his limbs were stark ; 35 The ...
... king must lay his limbs at length . 30 Are these the laurels and repose For which the nations strain their strength ? They laid him by a savage tree , In outworn nature's agony ; His wounds were stiff , his limbs were stark ; 35 The ...
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... King of Poland . After his escapade with a Polish matron , and his consequent enforced ride to the Ukraine , bound to the back of a wild horse , he cast his lot among the Cossacks , a warlike people inhabiting the steppes of that part ...
... King of Poland . After his escapade with a Polish matron , and his consequent enforced ride to the Ukraine , bound to the back of a wild horse , he cast his lot among the Cossacks , a warlike people inhabiting the steppes of that part ...
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... uneasiness abated , and that he wanted only to run , he put him in a full gallop , and pushed him on both with the voice and the spur . " 1 Ancient name of the Dnieper river . Ay , ' t was , when Casimir was king— 38 LORD BYRON .
... uneasiness abated , and that he wanted only to run , he put him in a full gallop , and pushed him on both with the voice and the spur . " 1 Ancient name of the Dnieper river . Ay , ' t was , when Casimir was king— 38 LORD BYRON .
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Página 155 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Página 74 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Página 151 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, the throne Of the invisible,— even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 151 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Página 75 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!
Página 84 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures 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 piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Página 150 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 137 - Were with his heart, and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday!
Página 17 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar; for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard! — May none those marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Página 152 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.