 | William Brockedon - Europe - 1833 - 462 pages
...less wild country disappointing. I was disposed to be pleased. I am a lover of nature and an admirer of beauty. I can bear fatigue and welcome privation,...recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and more home desolation, which must accompany me through life, have preyed upon me here; and neither the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English letters - 1833 - 658 pages
...wild country disappoint' ing. I was disposed to be pleased. I am a lover of ' nature and an admirer of beauty. I can bear fatigue ' and welcome privation,...some of the ' noblest views in the world. But in all this—the ' recollection of bitterness, and more especially of ' recent and more home desolation,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...less wild country disappointing. I was disposed to be pleased. I am a lover of nature and an admirer of beauty. I can bear fatigue and welcome privation,...recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and more home desolation, which must accompany me through life, have preyed upon me here ; and neither... | |
 | William Brockedon - Greece - 1834 - 380 pages
...less wild country disappointing. I was disposed to be pleased. I am a lover of nature, and an admirer of beauty. I can bear fatigue, and welcome privation,...have seen some of the noblest views in the world." In October, they took their departure together from Diodati, near Geneva, for Italy, by the way of... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 362 pages
...no other rooms but those oc* " I was disposed to be pleased. I am a lover of Nature and an admirer of beauty. I can bear fatigue, and welcome privation,...recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and cupied by him. I did not stay to look at the rest. I passed into the small garden that fronts the house... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...to be pleased. I am a lover of nature, and an admirer of beauty. I can bear fatigue, and wel. come privation, and have seen some of the noblest views...recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and more home desolation, which must accompany me through life, has preyed upon me here ; and neither the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...less wild country disappointing. I was disposed to be pleased. I am a lover of nature, and an admirer of beauty. I can bear fatigue, and welcome privation,...recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and more home desolation, which must accompany me through life, has preyed upon me here ; and neither the... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 1058 pages
...dilapidations, and the * " I was disposed to be pleased. I am a lover of Nature and an admirer of beauty. 1 can bear fatigue, and welcome privation, and have...recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and more home desolation which must accompany me through life, has preyed upon me here ; and neither the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...country disappointing. 1 wae disposed to be pleased. 1 am a lover of nature, and an admirer of beauty. 1 can bear fatigue, and welcome privation, and have...seen some of the noblest views in the world. But in alJ tbis, — the recollection of hit tern гея, and mure especially of receut and more home desolation,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...Lord Byron felt this, he had been less miserable. " I am a lover of Nature," said he, " and an admirer of beauty. I can bear fatigue and welcome privation, and have seen some of the finest scenes in the world. But in all this, — the recollections of bitterness, and more especially... | |
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But in all this the recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and more home desolation, which must accompany me through life, have preyed upon me here; and neither the music of the shepherd, the crashing of the avalanche, nor the torrent,... 
