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Don Juan, 2. Gesang CLXXVIII
Original engl.: "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, // Sermons and soda-water the day after."
„Was ist Demokratie — eine Aristokratie von Lumpengesindel.“
Brief vom 1. Mai 1821
Original engl.: "what is […] democracy? — an Aristocracy of Blackguards."
Don Juan, 13. Gesang C
Original engl.: "Youth fades, and leaves our days no longer sunny; // We tire of mistresses and parasites; // But oh, ambrosial cash! Ah! who would lose thee? // When we no more can use, or even abuse thee!"
„Wer Freude genießen will, muss sie teilen. Das Glück wurde als Zwilling geboren.“
Don Juan, 2. Gesang CLXXII
Original engl.: "all who joy would win // Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin."
Die Niederlage des Sanherib (The Destruction of Sennacherib) II
Original engl.: "For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, // And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd, // And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, // And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!"
Der Giaur (The Giaour)
Original engl.: "For Freedom's battle once begun, // Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, // Though baffled oft is ever won."
Don Juan, 13. Gesang XXXV
Original engl.: "Indifference certes don't produce distress; // And rash enthusiasm in good society // Were nothing but a moral inebriety."
„Indes des Lebens dünner Zwirn verschleißt, // Der Erbe lauert, und die Gicht uns beißt.“
Don Juan, 13. Gesang XL
Original engl.: "while life's thin thread's spun out // Between the gaping heir and gnawing gout"
„In Venedig ist Tassos Echo bereits verhallt // Und stumm rudert der liedlose Gondoliere.“
aus Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Übersetzung: Nino Barbieri.
Original engl.: "In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, // And silent rows the songless gondolier."), Poets http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16149 (Stand 17/08
„Nun sollte ich schlafen gehen. Gute Nacht.“
Letzte Worte, 19. April 1824, The Works of Lord Byron: Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and a Sketch of His Life, Phillips, Sampson and company, S. 13
Original engl.: "Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight."
„Wie Motten lockt der Glanz die Mädchen an.“
Childe Harolds Pilgerfahrt (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), 1. Gesang 9
Original engl.: "Maidens, like moths, are ever caughty by glare"
George Gordon Byron: Zitate auf Englisch
“Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.”
Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "To all nations their empire will be dreadful, because their ships will sail wherever billows roll or winds can waft them", Dalrymple, Memoirs, vol. iii, p. 152; "Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow", Charles Churchill, The Farewell, Line 38.
The Corsair (1814)
St. 3.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)
“He left a corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”
Canto III, stanza 24; this can be compared to: "Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, "Democritus to the Reader".
The Corsair (1814)
“I die — but first I have possessed,
And come what may, I have been blessed.”
Quelle: The Giaour (1813), Line 1114.
Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, / Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, / Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, / And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!" Goethe, Wilhelm Meister.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“With just enough of learning to misquote.”
Quelle: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 66.
“No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.”
Canto III, stanza 22.
The Corsair (1814)
Quelle: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 839.
And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair (1812).
“Oh, Amos Cottle! Phœbus! what a name!”
Quelle: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 399.
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-StanzaFP91.htm, st. 1 (1821).
To Thomas Moore http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-TomMoore.htm, st. 1 (1817).
“Who track the steps of glory to the grave.”
Quelle: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 74.