"By all that 's good and glorious."

Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2.

"I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse,--borne away with every breath!"

Sardanapalus. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"The dust we tread upon was once alive."

Sardanapalus. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager."

Beppo. Stanza 27.

"Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto."

Beppo. Stanza 32.

"His heart was one of those which most enamour us,-- Wax to receive, and marble to retain."

Beppo. Stanza 34.

"Besides, they always smell of bread and butter."

Beppo. Stanza 39.

"That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth."

Beppo. Stanza 44.

"Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies."

Beppo. Stanza 45.

"O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days."

Beppo. Stanza 80.

"And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong."

Mazeppa. Stanza 10.

"They never fail who die In a great cause."

Marino Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones."

Age of Bronze. Stanza 3.

"I loved my country, and I hated him."

The Vision of Judgment. lxxxiii.

"Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest."

The Island. Canto ii. Stanza 19.

"Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar!"

The Island. Canto ii. Stanza 19.

"My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!"

On my Thirty-sixth Year.

"Brave men were living before Agamemnon."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 5.

"In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!"

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 17.

"But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly,--have they not henpeck'd you all?"

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 22.

"The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 40.

"Her stature tall,--I hate a dumpy woman."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 61.

"Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 83.

"And whispering, "I will ne'er consent,"--consented."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 117.

"'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 123.

"Sweet is revenge--especially to women."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 124.

"And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away.""

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 141.

"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'T is woman's whole existence."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 194.

"In my hot youth, when George the Third was king."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 212.

"So for a good old-gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 216.

"What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 218.

"At leaving even the most unpleasant people And places, one keeps looking at the steeple."

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 14.

"There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion."

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 34.

"A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony."

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 53.

"All who joy would win Must share it, happiness was born a twin."

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 172.

"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after."

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 178.

"A long, long kiss,--a kiss of youth and love."

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 186.

"Alas, the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing."

Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 199.

"In her first passion woman loves her lover: In all the others, all she loves is love."

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 3.

"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 41.

"The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. . . . . . Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set."

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 1.

"The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free."

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 3.

"Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylæ."

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 7.

"You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave,-- Think ye he meant them for a slave?"

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 10.

"Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die."

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 16.

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 88.

"Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns."

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 108.

"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 4.

"The precious porcelain of human clay."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 11.

""Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 12.