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"And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 32.
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"But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 42.
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"He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 45.
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"All tenantless, save to the crannying wind."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 47.
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"The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 55.
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"He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 57.
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"But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 70.
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"By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 71.
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"I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 72.
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"This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 85.
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"On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 86.
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"All is concentr'd in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 89.
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 90.
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"The sky is changed,--and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 92.
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"Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 107.
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"Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 107.
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"I have not loved the world, nor the world me."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 113.
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"I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 113.
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"I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 1.
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"Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 1.
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"Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 3.
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"The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 10.
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"Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo, The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 12.
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"There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 19.
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"Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 23.
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"The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,--too many, yet how few!"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 24.
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"Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till--'t is gone, and all is gray."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 29.
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"The Ariosto of the North."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 40.
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"Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 42.
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"Fills The air around with beauty."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 49.
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"Let these describe the undescribable."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 53.
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"The starry Galileo with his woes."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 54.
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"Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 57.
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"The poetry of speech."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 58.
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"The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 69.
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"Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so,-- Not for thy faults, but mine."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 77.
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"O Rome! my country! city of the soul!"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 78.
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"The Niobe of nations! there she stands."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 79.
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"Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 98.
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"Heaven gives its favourites--early death."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 102.
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"History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 108.
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"Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 109.
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"Tully was not so eloquent as thou, Thou nameless column with the buried base."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 110.
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"Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 115.
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"The nympholepsy of some fond despair."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 115.
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"Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 115.
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"Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 120.
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"I see before me the gladiator lie."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 140.
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"There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday!"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 141.
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""While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the world.""
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 145.
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