George G. Byron: Frases en inglés (página 8)

George G. Byron era escritor británico. Frases en inglés.
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“His heart was one of those which most enamour us,
Wax to receive, and marble to retain:
He was a lover of the good old school,
Who still become more constant as they cool.”

Stanza 34; this can be compared to: "My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain", Miguel de Cervantes, The Little Gypsy.
Beppo (1818)

“I only know we loved in vain;
I only feel — farewell! farewell!”

Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer (1808), st. 2.

“Yet in my lineaments they trace
Some features of my father's face.”

Parisina, Stanza 13, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.”

A Sketch, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!”

Maid of Athens http://readytogoebooks.com/MOA43.htm, st. 1 (1810).