George Gordon Byron Zitate

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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!"

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."

Don Juan, 13. Gesang XL
Original engl.: "while life's thin thread's spun out // Between the gaping heir and gnawing gout"

aus Childe Harold&#x27;s Pilgrimage, Übersetzung: Nino Barbieri. <br class="br">Original engl.: &quot;In Venice Tasso&#x27;s echoes are no more, // And silent rows the songless gondolier.&quot;), Poets http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16149 (Stand 17/08

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."

Childe Harold

Childe Harolds Pilgerfahrt (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), 1. Gesang 9
Original engl.: "Maidens, like moths, are ever caughty by glare"

Quelle: Don Juan

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)

Quelle: Byron Poems

St. 3.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)

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)

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)

Quelle: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 66.

The Deformed Transformed, Act III, sc. i (1824).

Act II, scene i.
Manfred (1817)

Act II, scene iv.
Manfred (1817)

Stanza 45.
Beppo (1818)

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).

Quelle: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 399.

Act III, scene iv.
Manfred (1817)

Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-StanzaFP91.htm, st. 1 (1821).

Act III, scene iv.
Manfred (1817)

Act IV, scene 1.
Sardanapalus (1821)

To Thomas Moore http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-TomMoore.htm, st. 1 (1817).

Quelle: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 74.

Act III, scene i.
Manfred (1817)