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The Polar star, being a continuation of 'The Extractor', of entertainment ... - Page 260
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A Letter Book: Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of ...

George Saintsbury - English letters - 1922 - 332 pages
...see those two words, and no more, put over me. I trust they won't think of " pickling, and bringing me home to clod or Blunderbuss Hall." I am sure my...thought would drive me mad on my death-bed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to your soil. I would...
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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 4

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - Lake poets - 1923 - 398 pages
...being taken back as a corpse. " I trust," he writes, " they won't think of ' pickling, and bringing me home to Clod or Blunderbuss Hall.' I am sure my...the thought would drive me mad on my deathbed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to your soil. I would...
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Byron, Volume 1

Ethel Colburn Mayne - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 500 pages
...few days — he adds to this : "I trust they won't think of ' pickling, and bringing me home '. ... I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave,...thought would drive me mad on my death-bed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcase back to your soil. I would...
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Lord Byron in His Letters: Selections from His Letters and Journals

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English letters - 1927 - 332 pages
...see those two words, and no more, put over me. I trust they won't think of " pickling, and bringing me " home to Clod or Blunderbuss Hall."• I am sure...the thought would drive me mad on my deathbed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcase back to your soil. I would...
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Lord Byron in His Letters: Selections from His Letters and Journals

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English letters - 1927 - 324 pages
...over me. I trust they won't think of " pickling, and bringing me " home to Clod or Blunderbuss Hall."1 I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave,...the thought would drive me mad on my deathbed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcase back to your soil. I would...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...realm, this England. Gaunt, King Richard II William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave,...the thought would drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcase back to her soil. I would...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...and quite English, imperturbable. LORD BYRON (1788-1824). English poet. Don/uan.cto. 13, st. 14. 11 ris, and I have enjoyed it. JOHN F. KENNEDY (1917-63),...1961. at SHAPE Headquarters, Paris, France. 4 The I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1812-1889) British poet. "Home Thoughts, From Abroad," st. 1 , Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1 845). 5 I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth ofthat country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of...
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Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds: English Fantasies of Venice

Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - English literature - 1999 - 264 pages
...burying Ground at the Lido.. .will see those two words [implora pace], and no more, put over me... I am sure my Bones would not rest in an English grave... I would not even feed your worms - if I could help it." (Byron 1973-1983, vol. 6, 149.) The weeds of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 192

English literature - 1900 - 624 pages
...abroad for a term, among the few allies our wars have left us.' Eight years later he wrote to Murray : ' I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave or my clay mix with the earth of that country.' Byron was so English, English even in that, in its lofty petulance ; and he had the characteristically...
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