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George Gordon Byron Citations
Lettres et Journaux intimes
Lettres et Journaux intimes
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Byron sur ses projets de voyages, cité par le biographe André Maurois
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George Gordon Byron: Citations en anglais
“Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.”
Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "To all nations their empire will be dreadful, because their ships will sail wherever billows roll or winds can waft them", Dalrymple, Memoirs, vol. iii, p. 152; "Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow", Charles Churchill, The Farewell, Line 38.
The Corsair (1814)
St. 3.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)
“He left a corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”
Canto III, stanza 24; this can be compared to: "Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, "Democritus to the Reader".
The Corsair (1814)
“I die — but first I have possessed,
And come what may, I have been blessed.”
Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 1114.
Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, / Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, / Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, / And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!" Goethe, Wilhelm Meister.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“With just enough of learning to misquote.”
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 66.
“No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.”
Canto III, stanza 22.
The Corsair (1814)
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 839.
And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair (1812).
“Oh, Amos Cottle! Phœbus! what a name!”
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 399.
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-StanzaFP91.htm, st. 1 (1821).
To Thomas Moore http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-TomMoore.htm, st. 1 (1817).
“Who track the steps of glory to the grave.”
Source: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 74.