 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pàgines
...he that in vain I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling, So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness — so it fling Forgetfulncss around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. v. He... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pàgines
...recollection of his frequent exhibitions of unaffected hysteria, we accept his own confession — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep " — as a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects the most effective,... | |
 | Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt - 1983 - 168 pàgines
...in The Age of Bronze. 19 Thus he strikes basically the same pose as Byron when he says in Don Juan: 'and if I laugh at any mortal thing, / 'Tis that I may not weep'. 80 These lines explain the reason for the irony of Don Juan and apply equally well to Magrico. It is... | |
 | Roger B. Salomon - 2008 - 318 pàgines
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy. . . . [4.3-4] Byron goes on to defend his strange and complex point of view and the art form that has... | |
 | David L. Hall - 1992 - 448 pàgines
...sad face and wondered if she had ever read Byron's Don Juan and, if so, had she paused at the line And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep. 18 On the way to the airport, Michael loosened his tie and was relieved to discover that the constriction... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pàgines
...be, that in vain I would essay as I have song to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling ; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness-^-so it fling Forgetf ulneae around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pàgines
...that in vain ?u I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness — so it fling Forgetful ness around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V He,... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 pàgines
...bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth.' 1 Written in Italy. 3 'And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.' his 'death a victory.' When he heard the cry of nationality and liberty burst forth in the land he... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pàgines
...be, that in vain I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness - so it fling 35 Forgetfulness around me - it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. He,... | |
 | Karl Simms - 1997 - 318 pàgines
...like Byron's attempt to recover a sense of self. In stanza 4. we are told that the poet is writing So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish...or gladness - so it fling Forgetfulness around me - it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme (Byron l980:78). The wish to forget... | |
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He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife... 
