The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) finished (1788) _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ at "La Grotte, an ancient and spacious mansion behind the church of St. Francis, at Lausanne...

It was not always the custom of the Greeks to burn their dead; the greater Ajax, in particular, was interred entire. Almost all the chiefs became gods after their decease; and h...

Che 'l gran Sepolcro liberò di Cristo Molto egli oprò col senno, e con la mano Molto soffri nel glorioso acquisto; E in van l' Inferno a lui s' oppose, e in vano S' armò d' Asia...

[For dates and names of towns and villages, see _Travels in Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey, in 1809 and 1810_, by the Right Hon. Lord Broughton, G.C.B. [John Cam Hobhous...

Come, blue-eyed Maid of Heaven!--but Thou, alas! Didst never yet one mortal song inspire-- Goddess of Wisdom! here thy temple was, And is, despite of War and wasting fire,[1.B.]...

[305] [It has been supposed that there is a reference in this passage, and again in _Stanzas to Augusta_ (dated July 24, 1816), to "the only important calumny"--to quote Shelley...

Ἐν μύρτου κλαδὶ τὸ ξίφος φορήσω [E)n my/rtou kladi\ to\ xi/phos phorê/sô], Ὣσπερ Ἁρμόδιος καὶ Ἀριστογείτων [Ô(\sper A(rmo/dios kai\ A)ristogei/tôn], Ὅτε τὸν ύραννον κτανετην [O(...

The little village of Castri stands partially on the site of Delphi. Along the path of the mountain, from Chrysso, are the remains of sepulchres hewn in and from the rock:--"One...

[76] {57} ["A short two-edged knife or dagger ... formerly worn at the girdle" (_N. Eng. Dict._, art. "Anlace"). The "anlace" of the Spanish heroines was the national weapon, th...

"Giace l'alta Cartago; appena i segni Dell' alte sue ruini il lido serba. Muojono le città; muojono i regni: Copre i fasti, e le pompe, arena ed erba; E l'uom d'esser mortal par...

[524] [The emphasis is on the word "fit." The measure of "fitness" is the entirety of the enshrinement or embodiment of the mortal aspiration to put on immortality. The vastness...

on the populace. "The multitude, my lords, is a many-headed monster, it is a Cerberus that must have a sop; it is a wild beast, so ravenous that nothing but blood will appease i...

never in my life I seduced any woman." Compare _Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi_, 1890, ii. 12, "Never have I employed the iniquitous art of seduction ... Languishing in soft and t...

The communication between the ducal palace and the prisons of Venice is by a gloomy bridge, or covered gallery, high above the water, and divided by a stone wall into a passage...

[In 1684, when the Venetian Armada threatened Athens, the Turks removed the Temple of Victory, and made use of the materials for the construction of a bastion. In the autumn of...