Review of the Life and Character of Lord ByronJ.G. & F. Rivington, 1833 - 95 pages |
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Page 24 - and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought, with high providence, in his Church —to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ—to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true
Page 30 - all our relatives are congratulating away to right and left in the most fatiguing manner. " You perhaps know the lady. She is niece to Lady Melbourne, and cousin to Lady Cowper and others of your acquaintance, and has no fault, except being a great deal too good for me, and that
Page 41 - by Percy Shelley * * *, and, of all the ineffable Centaurs that were ever begotten by Self-love upon a Night-mare, I think this monstrous Sagittary the most prodigious. He (Leigh H.) is an honest Charlatan, who has persuaded himself into a belief of his own impostures, and talks Punch in pure simplicity of heart, taking himself (as poor Fitzgerald said of
Page 36 - insult my servants, I will do likewise by their gallant commanders; and I have directed my ragamuffins, six in number, who are tolerably savage, to defend themselves in case of aggression ; and, on holidays and gaudy days, I shall arm the whole set, including myself, in case of accidents or treachery. I
Page 48 - truly accused of obscenity, immorality and profaneness, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend,
Page 36 - good and so forth. * * * furnished us with prologues to our revived old English plays, but was not pleased with me for complimenting him as ' the Upton' of our theatre, (Mr. Upton is, or was, the poet who writes the songs for Astley's,) and
Page 25 - even according to your creed ? They were immortal, heavenly, and happy as their apostate Abdiel is now by his treachery. Time must decide; and eternity won't be the less agreeable or more horrible because one did not expect it. In the meantime. I am grateful for some good, and tolerably patient under certain evils—grace a Dieu et mon bon
Page 37 - as having powerfully aided the suspicion that his faculties were in a state of dislocation. In a fit of vexation and rage, brought on by some of those humiliating embarrassments to which he was almost daily exposed, he took a favourite old watch, which had been his companion from boyhood, and had gone with him to Greece, furiously dashed
Page 26 - soon ceased to doubt of its truth)—that, though thus merry and full of laughter with those he liked, he was at heart, one of the most melancholy wretches living."—Vol. ip 356. The truth is, that he knew nothing of what Jeremy Taylor calls the " perpetual festivities
Page 28 - affection and confidence, observing how cheerless and unsettled was the state both of his mind and prospects, advised him strenuously to marry; and, after much discussion, he consented. The next point for consideration was—who was to be the object of