Questions tagged [lord-byron]
Questions about the works of the poet George Noel Gordon, 6th Baron Byron, better known as Lord Byron (1788 – 1824), or his life as a writer.
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Why is a cuckolded husband "fit for heaven" in Byron's Don Juan?
Canto 5, stanza 154, from Byron's Don Juan:
His majesty saluted his fourth spouse
With all the ceremonies of his rank,
Who clear'd her sparkling eyes and smooth'd her brows,
As ...
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Meaning of "but no one dreams of ever being short" in Byron's Don Juan
Canto 5, stanza 48, from Byron's Don Juan:
Some talk of an appeal unto some passion,
Some to men's feelings, others to their reason;
The last of these was never much the fashion,
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Meaning of "from crowns to kicks" in Byron's Don Juan
From Byron's Don Juan:
Just now a black old neutral personage
Of the third sex stept up, and peering over
The captives, seem'd to mark their looks and age,
And capabilities, as to discover
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Meaning of "such as had not staid long with her destiny" in Byron's "Don Juan"
From Byron's Don Juan:
Thus lived -- thus died she; never more on her
Shall sorrow light, or shame. She was not made
Through years or moons the inner weight to bear,
Which colder ...
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Meaning of "The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice" in Byron's Don Juan
From Byron's Don Juan:
It has a strange quick jar upon the ear,
That cocking of a pistol, when you know
A moment more will bring the sight to bear
Upon your person, twelve yards off,...
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Meaning of "Whose husband only knows her not a whore"
From Byron's Don Juan:
Oh beautiful! and rare as beautiful
But theirs was love in which the mind delights
To lose itself when the old world grows dull,
And we are sick of its hack ...
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Meaning of "Of which the first ne'er knows the second cause" in Byron's Don Juan
From Byron's Don Juan:
Their poet, a sad trimmer, but no less
In company a very pleasant fellow,
Had been the favourite of full many a mess
Of men, and made them speeches when half ...
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Meaning of "So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, as vibrates my fond heart to my fixed soul"
From Byron's Don Juan:
"My breast has been all weakness, is so yet;
But still I think I can collect my mind;
My blood still rushes where my spirit's set,
As roll the waves before ...
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Meaning of "As roll the waves before the settled wind" in Byron's "Don Juan"
From Byron's Don Juan:
"My breast has been all weakness, is so yet;
But still I think I can collect my mind;
My blood still rushes where my spirit's set,
As roll the waves before ...
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Meaning of "a lady with apologies abounds" in Byron's Don Juan
From Byron's Don Juan:
Julia, in fact, had tolerable grounds,—
Alfonso's loves with Inez were well known,
But whether 't was that one's own guilt confounds—
But that can't be, as has been ...
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Meaning of "faithful to the tomb, so there were quarrels" in Byron's "Don Juan"
From Byron's Don Juan:
The Senhor Don Alfonso stood confused;
Antonia bustled round the ransack'd room,
And, turning up her nose, with looks abused
Her master and his myrmidons, of ...
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Meaning of "Israelites" in Byron's Don Juan: "That all the Israelites are fit to mob its next owner for their double-damn'd post-obits"
From Byron's Don Juan:
Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet
The unexpected death of some old lady
Or gentleman of seventy years complete,
Who've made "us youth" wait too—too long already
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Meaning of "but beg security will bolt the door"
From Don Juan by Byron:
LXXXVIII
"Oh Love! in such a wilderness as this,
Where transport and security entwine,
Here is the empire of thy perfect bliss,
And here thou art a god ...
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Meaning of "Where juries cast up what a wife is worth"?
From Byron's Don Juan:
Happy the nations of the moral North!
Where all is virtue, and the winter season
Sends sin, without a rag on, shivering forth
('T was snow that brought St. ...
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Meaning of "Produced her Don more heirs at love than law"
From Don Juan:
This heathenish cross restored the breed again,
Ruin'd its blood, but much improved its flesh;
For from a root the ugliest in Old Spain
Sprung up a branch as ...
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