Die belesenheit des jungen Byron

Voorkant
M. Kindler, 1903 - 119 pagina's
 

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Pagina 63 - Then farewell Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse To understand not feel thy lyric flow, To comprehend, but never love thy verse.
Pagina 6 - The Turkish History was one of the first books that gave me pleasure when a child, and I believe, it had much influence on my subsequent wishes to visit the Levant, and gave perhaps the oriental colouring which is observed in my poetry.
Pagina 54 - A. strange doom is thy father's son's and past Recalling, as it lies beyond redress; Reversed for him our grandsire's fate of yore He had no rest at sea, nor I on shore.
Pagina 43 - Dissertation concerning the war of Troy and the expedition of the Grecians, as described by Homer showing that no such expedition was ever undertaken
Pagina 27 - It is possible that he is unconscious of the plagiary of ideas he has committed, for his reading is so desultory that he seizes thoughts which, in passing through the glowing alembic of his mind, become so embellished as to lose all identity with the original crude embryos he had adopted".
Pagina 78 - My hopes are limited to the arrangement of my affairs and settling either in Italy or the East (rather the last), and drinking deep of the languages and literature of both.
Pagina 51 - tolerably extensive in the historical department; so that few nations exist, or have existed, with whose records I am not in some degree acquainted, from Herodotus down to Gibbon".
Pagina 64 - Both he and you go too far against Pope's „So when the moon, etc."; it is no translation, I know, but it is not such false description as asserted. I have read it on the spot
Pagina 66 - Have we not passed our last month like the gods of Lucretius? And so we had. She is an adept in the text of the original (which I like too).
Pagina 14 - After that flagrant image of the Thames I hope no unlucky wag will say I have set it on fire, though Dryden, in his Annus Mirabilis, and Churchill, in his Times, did it before me.

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