Don Juan: Cantos IX.-X.-and XI.John Hunt, 1823 - 151 sider |
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Side 14
... sail capsize the boat ? Your wise men don't know much of navigation ; And swimming long in the abyss of thought Is apt to tire : a calm and shallow station Well nigh the shore , where one stoops down and gathers Some pretty shell , is ...
... sail capsize the boat ? Your wise men don't know much of navigation ; And swimming long in the abyss of thought Is apt to tire : a calm and shallow station Well nigh the shore , where one stoops down and gathers Some pretty shell , is ...
Side 18
... sail before the wind . He who has nought to gain can have small art : he Who neither wishes to be bound nor bind , May still expatiate freely , as will I , Nor give my voice to Slavery's Jackall cry . XXVII . That's an appropriate ...
... sail before the wind . He who has nought to gain can have small art : he Who neither wishes to be bound nor bind , May still expatiate freely , as will I , Nor give my voice to Slavery's Jackall cry . XXVII . That's an appropriate ...
Side 26
... sails new shivered in a storm , Over a cocked hat in a crowded room , And brilliant breeches , bright as a Cairn Gorme , Of yellow cassimere we may presume , White stockings drawn , uncurdled as new milk , O'er limbs whose symmetry set ...
... sails new shivered in a storm , Over a cocked hat in a crowded room , And brilliant breeches , bright as a Cairn Gorme , Of yellow cassimere we may presume , White stockings drawn , uncurdled as new milk , O'er limbs whose symmetry set ...
Side 54
... though so much inferior , as I know , To those who , by the dint of glass and vapour , Discover stars , and sail in the wind's eye , I wish to do as much by Poesy . IV . In the Wind's Eye I have sailed , 54 CANTO X. DON JUAN .
... though so much inferior , as I know , To those who , by the dint of glass and vapour , Discover stars , and sail in the wind's eye , I wish to do as much by Poesy . IV . In the Wind's Eye I have sailed , 54 CANTO X. DON JUAN .
Side 55
... sail ; but for The stars , I own my telescope is dim ; But at the least I have shunned the common shore , And leaving land far out of sight , would skim The Ocean of Eternity : the roar Of breakers has not daunted my slight , trim , But ...
... sail ; but for The stars , I own my telescope is dim ; But at the least I have shunned the common shore , And leaving land far out of sight , would skim The Ocean of Eternity : the roar Of breakers has not daunted my slight , trim , But ...
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Side 110 - is Freedom's chosen station; Here peals the people's voice, nor can entomb it Racks, prisons, inquisitions; resurrection Awaits it, each new meeting or election.
Side 93 - On! on! through meadows, managed like a garden, A paradise of hops and high production ; For, after years of travel by a bard in Countries of greater heat, but lesser suction, A green field is a sight which makes him pardon The absence of that more sublime construction, Which mixes up vines — olives — precipices — Glaciers— volcanoes — oranges and ices.
Side 39 - What a strange thing is man ! and what a stranger Is woman ! What a whirlwind is her head, And what a whirlpool full of depth and danger Is all the rest about her ! Whether wed, Or widow, maid, or mother, she can change her Mind like the wind : whatever she has said Or done, is light to what she'll say or do ; — The oldest thing on record, and yet new...
Side 10 - I've done. Now go and dine from off the plate Presented by the Prince of the Brazils, And send the sentinel before your gate A slice or two from your luxurious meals : He fought, but has not fed so well of late. Some hunger, too, they say the people feels : — There is no doubt that you deserve your ration, But pray give back a little to the nation.
Side 91 - tis but in a hurry, And merely for the sake of its own merits : For the less cause there is for all this flurry, The greater is the pleasure in arriving At the great end of travel — which is driving.
Side 56 - Man fell with apples, and with apples rose, If this be true; for we must deem the mode In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose Through the then unpaved stars the turnpike road, A thing to counterbalance human woes...
Side 25 - But let it go : — it will one day be found With other relics of
Side 11 - Never had mortal man such opportunity, Except Napoleon, or abused it more: You might have freed fallen Europe from the unity Of tyrants, and been blest from shore to shore : And now - what is your fame? Shall the Muse tune it ye? Now - that the rabble's first vain shouts are o'er? Go! hear it in your famish'd country's cries! Behold the world! and curse your victories!