As quoted in Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin (1832), Preface.
George Gordon Byron: Citáty anglicky (strana 7)
George Gordon Byron byl anglický básník a vůdčí postava hnutí romantismu. Citáty anglicky.
George Gordon Byron:
287
citátů
1596
lajků
“Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die.”
George Gordon Byron
kniha
Manfred
Act III, scene iv
Manfred (1817)
George Gordon Byron
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Zdroj: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 826. A number of authors have addressed this common motif of an eagle shot with an eagle-feather arrow
“Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.”
George Gordon Byron
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Zdroj: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 326.
“The love where Death has set his seal,
Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,
Nor falsehood disavow.”
And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-thou38.html (1812).
“A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure — critics are ready-made.”
George Gordon Byron
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Zdroj: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 63.
“She was his life,
The ocean to the river of his thoughts,
Which terminated all.”
George Gordon Byron
The Dream
Stanza 2; this can be compared to: "She floats upon the river of his thoughts", Henry W. Longfellow, The Spanish Student, act ii, scene 3.
The Dream (1816)
George Gordon Byron
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Zdroj: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 75.
“Jack was embarrassed — never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.”
The Island (1823), Canto III, Stanza 5.
“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar.”
George Gordon Byron
kniha
Manfred
Act I, scene ii.
Manfred (1817)
“The cold in clime are cold in blood,
Their love can scarce deserve the name.”
George Gordon Byron
The Giaour
Zdroj: The Giaour (1813), Line 1099.
The Island (1823), Canto II, Stanza 19.
“I loved my country, and I hated him.”
George Gordon Byron
kniha
The Vision of Judgment
The Vision of Judgment, lxxxiii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,
And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.”
Zdroj: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 117; this can be compared to: "Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa" (translated: "Nature made him, and then broke the mould"), Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto x, stanza 84; "The idea that Nature lost the perfect mould has been a favorite one with all song-writers and poets, and is found in the literature of all European nations", Book of English Songs, p. 28.
Canto I, stanza 15.
The Corsair (1814)