Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence: DiaryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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Strana 52 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Strana 182 - Of martyr ; yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death. She never undertook to know What Death with Love should have to do ; Nor has she e'er yet understood Why to show love, she should shed blood, Yet though she cannot tell you why, She can love, and she can die.
Strana 264 - Look at that poor Byron, how interesting he looks in dying.'" At Athens he used to take the bath three times a week to thin himself, and drink vinegar and water, eating only a little rice. Lord S.'s time with him at Athens was after Hobhouse left him.
Strana 283 - Lord Holland said it was not so; it was not from his birth that Lord Byron had taken the station he held in society, for till his talents became known, he was, in spite of his birth, in any thing but good society, and but for his talents would never, perhaps, have been in any better. In talking of the feeling he had towards the men he lived with, Lord H. said 'yo« were the only literary person he formed an intimacy with who was "hail fellow, well met" with him; the others he was rather inclined...
Strana 75 - In talking of the stories about drinkers catching fire, pursued the idea in every possible shape. The inconvenience of a man coming too near the candle when he was speaking, 'Sir, your observation has caught fire.
Strana 12 - For quick repartee in conversation, there are few things better. — JR MOORE AND SCOTT AT THE THEATRE. I2g , JAMES HOGG. November 8, 1825. — I went to sup at Wilson's. An odd set collected there ; among others, the poet Hogg. We had also Williams, the rector of the Academy, the person to whom Lockhart addressed
Strana 176 - Seems to have known Byron thoroughly, and always winds up her account of his bad traits with
Strana 165 - Nugee called with the first sketch of my coat to try it on: said he would dress me better than ever I was dressed in my life: 'There's not much of you, sir', he said, 'and therefore my object must be to make the most I can of you.
Strana 295 - Ei lends, and mentioned herself as having lost twenty-six friends in the course of the last six years. It is something to have had so many. Among other reasons for her regret at leaving the stage was, that she always found in it a vent for her private sorrows, which enabled her to bear them better ; and often she has got credit for the truth and feeling of her acting when she was doing nothing more than relieving her own heart of its grief.
Strana 235 - ... to the company, so that the person who sits next to him has generally the advantage of his wit before any of the rest of the party. The other day, having a number of the foreign ministers and their wives to dine with him, he was debating with himself whether he ought not to follow the continental fashion of leaving the room with the ladies after dinner. Having settled the matter he muttered forth in his usual soliloquizing tone, " I think we must go out all together.