Letters, Volume 2I. Pitman, 1909 |
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Addressed Adieu affairs affectionate Allegra arrived Bagni Baths beautiful boat bookseller C. M. J. Clairmont Cenci CHARLES OLLIER London CLARA MARY JANE Clare cloth gilt copy crown 8vo DEAR FRIEND DEAR PEACOCK DEAR SIR DEAREST delightful demy 8vo Dowden England expect feel Florence gilt top Gisborne Godwin hear hope Hoppner Horace Smith Hunt's imagine interest Italian Italy journey Keats kind Leghorn Leigh Hunt Lerici letter Livorno Lord Byron Lucca MARIA GISBORNE Marlow MARY JANE CLAIRMONT Mary Shelley MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Medwin Miss CLAIRMONT mountains Naples never P. B. SHELLEY PERCY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY perhaps Pisa pleasure poem poetry Pray present printed Prometheus published Ravenna received Rome sent Shelley's sincerely soon spirits T. L. Peacock tell things THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK tion Trelawny Venice WILLIAM GODWIN Williams wish write written wrote
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Página 500 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 622 - The following morn was rainy, cold and dim : Ere Maddalo arose, I called on him, And whilst I waited with his child I played ; A lovelier toy sweet Nature never made, A serious, subtle, wild, yet gentle being, Graceful without design and unforeseeing, With eyes — Oh speak not of her eyes ! — which seem Twin mirrors of Italian Heaven, yet gleam With such deep meaning, as we never see But in the human countenance...
Página 746 - This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence, and on a day when that tempestuous wind, whose temperature is at once mild and animating, was collecting the vapours which pour down the autumnal rains.
Página 678 - ... vegetation. Around rise other crags and other peaks, all arrayed, and the deformity of their vast desolation softened down, by the undecaying investiture of nature. Come to Rome. It is a scene by which expression is overpowered ; which words cannot convey.
Página 894 - I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may, and there is no other with whom it is worth contending.
Página 665 - They lived in harmony with nature; and the interstices of their incomparable columns were portals, as it were, to admit the spirit of beauty which animates this glorious universe to visit those whom it inspired.
Página 964 - In Memory of Allegra, Daughter of GG Lord Byron, who died at Bagna Cavallo, in Italy, April 20th, 1822, aged five years and three months. ' I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me.
Página 705 - You will find the little piece, I think, in some degree consistent with your own ideas of the manner in which poetry ought to be written. I have employed a certain familiar style of language to express the actual way in which people talk with each other, whom education and a certain refinement of sentiment have placed above the use of vulgar idioms.
Página 715 - Yet it is full of some of the highest and the finest gleams of poetry ; indeed, everything seems to be viewed by the mind of a poet which is described in it. I think if he had printed about fifty pages of fragments from it, I should have been led to admire...
Página 694 - I am delighted with Nightmare Abbey. I think Scythrop a character admirably conceived and executed ; and I know not how to praise sufficiently the lightness, chastity, and strength of the language of the whole.