Quotes from book
Manfred
Manfred: A dramatic poem is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction.
Act II, scene iv.
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Act III, scene iv.
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Act III, scene iv.
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Act III, scene i.
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“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar.”
Act I, scene ii.
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Act II, scene ii.
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Act III, scene i.
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Act I, scene ii.
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Act I, scene i.
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“Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains;
They crowned him long ago”
Act I, scene i.
Manfred (1817)
Context: Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains;
They crowned him long ago,
On a throne of rocks — in a robe of clouds –
With a Diadem of Snow.
“But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks,
Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness.”
Act II, scene i.
Manfred (1817)
Context: Think'st thou existence doth depend on time?
It doth; but actions are our epochs: mine
Have made my days and nights imperishable
Endless, and all alike, as sands on the shore
Innumerable atoms; and one desert
Barren and cold, on which the wild waves break,
But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks,
Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness.
