 People have wondered at the melancholy which runs through my writings. Others have wondered at my personal gaiety. But I recollect once, after an hour in which I had been sincerely and particularly gay and rather brilliant, in company, my wife replying...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 4431830Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 530 pagina’s
...complacently quotes the testimony of his wife, after a particularly brilliant evening in society,—"At heart you are the most melancholy of mankind ; and often when apparently gayest." Elsewhere he cites approvingly the remark of Grimm, that Raynard and most other comic poets were gens... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 pagina’s
...sincerely and particularly gay and rather brilliant, in company, my wife replying to me when I said (upon her remarking my high spirits), ' And yet, Bell, I...how falsely, frequently ? ' — ' No', Byron,' she answered7, ' it is not so : at heart I It will be perceived from thli that I was u yet unacquainted... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1883 - 396 pagina’s
...when his wife declared her pleasure at seeing him in such high spirits. ' And yet, Bell,' he said, ' I have been called and miscalled melancholy — you...falsely, frequently.' ' No, Byron,' she answered, with the fine perception of wifely sympathy, ' it is not so ; at heart you are the most melancholy... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889 - 358 pagina’s
...particularly gay, and rather brilliant, in company, my wife,, replying to me, when I said (upon my remarking my high spirits) — " ' And yet, Bell,...melancholy of mankind, and often when apparently gayest.' " * See Cooke'e Memoirs of, ii., 8. Sir "Walter Scott, too, tells us that " the flashes \ of mirth,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 552 pagina’s
...and " particularly gay and rather brilliant, in company, my wife replying " to me when I said (upon her remarking my high spirits), ' And " yet, Bell,...melancholy of mankind ; "and often when apparently gayest.' " Sir Walter Scott (Prose Works, vol. iv. p. 359) says, "The "flashes of mirth, gaiety, indignation,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 544 pagina’s
...and ' particularly gay and rather brilliant, in company, my wife replying ' to me when I said (upon her remarking my high spirits), ' And 'yet, Bell, I have been called and miscalled melancholy—you must 'have seen how falsely, frequently?'—'No, Byron,' she answered, "it is not... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 548 pagina’s
...and ' particularly gay and rather brilliant, in company, my wife replying ' to me when I said (upon her remarking my high spirits), ' And ' yet, Bell,...of mankind ; ' and often when apparently gayest.' " Sir Walter Scott (Prose Works, vol. iv. p. 359) says, "The 'flashes of mirth, gaiety, indignation,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 698 pagina’s
...and ' particularly gay and rather brilliant, in company, my wife replying ' to me when I said (upon her remarking my high spirits), ' And ' yet, Bell, I have been called and miscalled melancholy — yon must 'have seen how falsely, frequently? ' — 'No, Byron,' she answered, " it is not so :... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 458 pagina’s
...sincerely and particularly gay, and rather brilliant, in company, my wife replying to me when I said (upon her remarking my high spirits) "and yet, Bell, I have been called and miscalled Melancholy—you must have seen how falsely, frequently." "No, B." (she answered), "it is not so :... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1921 - 492 pagina’s
...misconcep« Letters, VI, 88. "Moore, pp. 180-181. tion, undoubtedly spoke some truth when she said to Him: "At heart you are the most melancholy of mankind; and often when apparently gayest."20 Always in the later satires, as in Beppo, his laughter left him "doubly serious shortly... | |
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