As quoted in Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin (1832), Preface.
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George Gordon Byron Quotes
“Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die.”
George Gordon Byron book Manfred
Act III, scene iv
Manfred (1817)
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 826. A number of authors have addressed this common motif of an eagle shot with an eagle-feather arrow
“Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.”
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 326.
“When all of genius which can perish dies.”
Source: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 22.
“The love where Death has set his seal,
Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,
Nor falsehood disavow.”
And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-thou38.html (1812).
“A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure — critics are ready-made.”
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 63.
“She was his life,
The ocean to the river of his thoughts,
Which terminated all.”
Stanza 2; this can be compared to: "She floats upon the river of his thoughts", Henry W. Longfellow, The Spanish Student, act ii, scene 3.
The Dream (1816)
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 75.
“Jack was embarrassed — never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.”
The Island (1823), Canto III, Stanza 5.
“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar.”
George Gordon Byron book Manfred
Act I, scene ii.
Manfred (1817)
“The cold in clime are cold in blood,
Their love can scarce deserve the name.”
George Gordon Byron The Giaour
Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 1099.
“I loved my country, and I hated him.”
George Gordon Byron book The Vision of Judgment
The Vision of Judgment, lxxxiii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,
And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.”
Source: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 117; this can be compared to: "Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa" (translated: "Nature made him, and then broke the mould"), Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto x, stanza 84; "The idea that Nature lost the perfect mould has been a favorite one with all song-writers and poets, and is found in the literature of all European nations", Book of English Songs, p. 28.
Canto I, stanza 15.
The Corsair (1814)
Stanza 34; this can be compared to: "My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain", Miguel de Cervantes, The Little Gypsy.
Beppo (1818)
“I only know we loved in vain;
I only feel — farewell! farewell!”
Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer (1808), st. 2.
“The power of thought,—the magic of the mind!”
Canto I, stanza 8.
The Corsair (1814)
“Yet in my lineaments they trace
Some features of my father's face.”
Parisina, Stanza 13, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.”
A Sketch, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half brokenhearted,
To sever for years.”
When We Two Parted (1808), stanza 1.
“She walks the waters like a thing of life,
And seems to dare the elements to strife.”
Canto I, stanza 3.
The Corsair (1814)
“Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!”
Maid of Athens http://readytogoebooks.com/MOA43.htm, st. 1 (1810).
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, st. 10.
Mazeppa http://readytogoebooks.com/MZP21.htm (1819), stanza 9.
“The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.”
St. 1.
The Age of Bronze (1823)
George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus
Act V
Sardanapalus (1821)
Stanzas to Augusta (1816), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
St. 2.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)
George Gordon Byron The Giaour
Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 123.
“How my soul hates This language,
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.”
George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus
Act I, scene 2.
Sardanapalus (1821)
Stanzas to Augusta http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Augusta2.html, st. 1 (1816).
“[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.”
"To Mr. Moore", From the Letters of Lord Byron, 5 December 1816, p. 12.
Lord Byron's Armenian Exercises and Poetry (1870)
From the Letters of Lord Byron (2 January 1817), p. 6.
Lord Byron's Armenian Exercises and Poetry (1870)
“Such hath it been — shall be — beneath the sun
The many still must labour for the one!”
Canto I, stanza 8.
The Corsair (1814)
George Gordon Byron book Hebrew Melodies
The Destruction of Sennacherib http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/destruct.html, st. 1. <br class="br">Hebrew Melodies (1815)
