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" Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep... "
The Life, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume - Page 464
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 735 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 192

1900 - 608 pages
...production, ' Don Juan,' he tells us that his ' sere fancy has fallen ' into the yellow leaf : ' — ' And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.' It was in ' Beppo : a Venetian Story ' that he dropped, for the first time, the weapon of trenchant...
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The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral ..., Volume 3

1821 - 702 pages
...than those two cantos into families;" Together with his lordship's acknowledgment, that " Now my lost fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf/ and imagination droops her pinion, And the last truth which borers o er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque*" Two things yet appear...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 3

664 pages
...than those two cantos into families;" Together with his lordship's acknowledgment, that " Now my lost fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and imagination droops her pinion, And the last truth which hovers o er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque-" Two things yet appear...
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Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V.

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...opinion ; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy ' ' falls into the yellow " Leaf,"...pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk II. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 9-10

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...opinion , They took it up 'when my days grew more mellow, And other minds aknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy' ,, falls into the yellow ,,Leaf,"...pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk IV. And if I laugh at any mortal tiiing, Tis that I may not weep ; and if I \vecp, 'Tis that eur nature...
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The Investigator (or, Quarterly magazine) [ed. by W.B. Collyer, T ..., Volume 5

William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, "Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] Such is not...
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Don Juan. Cantos i. to v. [by lord Byron].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...opinion ; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow " Leaf,"...my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature...
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The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron, Volume 7

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...same opinion; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and...hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to hurlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that...
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Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a ..., Volume 1

Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 372 pages
...grief, or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I may not weep ; — and if I weep, " 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring " Itself to apathy" &c. " the habit of sending Hobhouse,...
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Journal of the conversations of lord Byron ... in the years 1821 and 1822

Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 pages
...or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !'' C/ii/dc Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I may not wee]) ; — and if I weep,. " drive away the memory of it, and make " me forget. • " I will give...
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