George G. Byron: Frases em inglês

Frases em inglês.
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“He left a corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”

George Gordon Byron

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)

“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!”

George Gordon Byron livro The Bride of Abydos

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.”

George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

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

“What's drinking?
A mere pause from thinking!”

George Gordon Byron

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

“Oh, Amos Cottle! Phœbus! what a name!”

George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

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

“My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea;
But, before I go, Tom Moore.
Here's a double health to thee!”

George Gordon Byron

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

“Who track the steps of glory to the grave.”

George Gordon Byron

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