«Письма и дневники лорда Байрона. Том 2»

Байрон. Письма и дневники

Volume 2

(August 1811-April 1814)

Part of Byron's Works

a New, Revised and Enlarged Edition, with Illustrations.

This volume edited by

Rowland E. Prothero

1898

Table of Contents

Предисловие

Список писем

Список дневниковых записей

Подробное содержание приложений

Глава V — «Чайльд-Гарольд», песни I, II

Глава VI — Кумир общества — Адрес к открытию театра Друри-Лейн — Вторая речь в парламенте

Глава VII — «Гяур» и «Абидосская невеста»

Chapter VIII—Journal: November 14, 1813-April 19, 1814

Приложение I — Статьи из «Мансли ревью»

Приложение II — Парламентские речи

Приложение III — Леди Кэролайн Лэм и Байрон

Приложение IV — Письма Бернарда Бартона

Приложение V — Переписка с Вальтером Скоттом

Приложение VI — «Великан и карлик»

Appendix VII—Attacks upon Byron in the Newspapers for February and March, 1814

Предисловие

Letters and Journals Childe Harold The Waltz, The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Three 1 Life Works Life Life

Life of Lord Byron Memoirs of Francis Hodgson

The note

Life Rogers and his Contemporaries vice versâ Life

Detached Thoughts

Appendix VII.

National Dictionary of Biography

R. E. Prothero.

Footnote 1: Project Gutenberg

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number date address

1811

169 Aug. 23 To John Murray

170 Aug. 24 To James Wedderburn Webster

171 Aug. 25 To R.C. Dallas

172 Aug. 27 To R.C. Dallas

173 Aug. 30 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

174 Aug. 30 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

175 Aug. 31 To James Wedderburn Webster

176 Sept. 2 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

177 Sept. 3 To Francis Hodgson

178 Sept. 4 To R.C. Dallas

179 Sept. 5 To John Murray

180 Sept. 7 To R.C. Dallas

181 Sept. 9 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

182 Sept. 9 To Francis Hodgson

183 Sept. 10 To R.C. Dallas

184 Sept. 13 To Francis Hodgson

185 Sept. 14 To John Murray

186 Sept. 15 To R.C. Dallas

187 Sept. 16 To John Murray

188 Sept. 16 To R.C. Dallas

189 Sept. 17 To R.C. Dallas

190 Sept. 17 To R.C. Dallas

191 Sept. 21 To R.C. Dallas

192 Sept. 23 To R.C. Dallas

193 Sept. 25 To Francis Hodgson

194 Sept. 26 To R.C. Dallas

195 Oct. 10 To James Wedderburn Webster

196 Oct. 10 To R.C. Dallas

197 Oct. 11 To R.C. Dallas

198 Oct. 13 To Francis Hodgson

199 Oct. 14 To R.C. Dallas

200 Oct. 16 To R.C. Dallas

201 Oct. 25 To R.C. Dallas

202 Oct. 27 To Thomas Moore

203 Oct. 29 To R.C. Dallas

204 Oct. 29 To Thomas Moore

205 Oct. 30 To Thomas Moore

206 Oct. 31 To R.C. Dallas

207 Nov. 1 To Thomas Moore

208 Nov. 17 To Francis Hodgson

209 Dec. 4 To Francis Hodgson

210 Dec. 6 To William Harness

211 Dec. 7 To James Wedderburn Webster

212 Dec. 8 To William Harness

213 Dec. 8 To Francis Hodgson

214 Dec. 11 To Thomas Moore

215 Dec. 12 To Francis Hodgson

216 undated R.C. Dallas

217 Dec. 15 To William Harness

1812

218 Jan. 21 To Robert Rushton

219 Jan. 25 To Robert Rushton

220 Jan. 29 To Thomas Moore

221 Feb. 1 To Francis Hodgson

222 Feb. 4 To Samuel Rogers

223 Feb. 12 To Master John Cowell

224 Feb. 16 To Francis Hodgson

225 Feb. 21 To Francis Hodgson

226 Feb. 25 To Lord Holland

227 March 5 To Francis Hodgson

228 March 5 To Lord Holland

229 undated To Thomas Moore

230 undated To William Bankes

231 March 25 To Thomas Moore

232 undated To Lady Caroline Lamb

233 April 20 To William Bankes

234 undated To Thomas Moore

235 May 1 To Lady Caroline Lamb

236 May 8 To Thomas Moore

237 May 20 To Thomas Moore

238 June 1 To Bernard Barton

239 June 25 To Lord Holland

240 June 26 To Professor Clarke

241 July 6 To Walter Scott

242 undated To Lady Caroline Lambt

243 Sept. 5 To John Murray

244 Sept. 10 To Lord Holland

245 Sept. 14 To John Murray

246 Sept. 22 To Lord Holland

247 Sept. 23 To Lord Holland

248 Sept. 24 To Lord Holland

249 Sept. 25 To Lord Holland

250 Sept. 26 To Lord Holland

251 Sept. 27 To Lord Holland

252 Sept. 27 To Lord Holland

253 Sept. 27 To John Murray

254 Sept. 28 To Lord Holland

255 Sept. 28 To Lord Holland

256 Sept. 28 To William Bankes

257 Sept. 29 To Lord Holland

258 Sept. 30 To Lord Holland

259 Sept. 30 To Lord Holland

260 Oct. 2 To Lord Holland

261 Oct. 12 To John Murray

262 Oct. 14 To Lord Holland

263 Oct. 18 To John Hanson

264 Oct. 18 To John Murray

265 Oct. 18 To Robert Rushton

266 Oct. 19 To John Murray

267 Oct. 22 To John Hanson

268 Oct. 23 To John Murray

269 Oct. 31 To John Hanson

270 Nov. 8 To John Hanson

271 Nov. 16 To John Hanson

272 Nov. 22 To John Murray

273 Dec. 26 To William Bankes

1813

274 Jan. 8 To John Murray

275 Feb. 3 To Francis Hodgson

276 Feb. 3 To John Hanson

277 Feb. 20 To John Murray

278 Feb. 24 To Robert Rushton

279 Feb. 27 To John Hanson

280 March 1 To John Hanson

281 March 5 To——Corbet

282 March 6 To John Hanson

283 March 24 To Charles Hanson

284 March 25 To Samuel Rogers

285 March 26 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

286 March 29 To John Murray

287 April 15 To John Hanson

288 April 17 To John Hanson

289 April 21 To John Murray

290 May 13 To John Murray

291 May 19 To Thomas Moore

292 May 22 To John Murray

293 May 23 To John Murray

294 June 2 To John Murray

295 undated To Thomas Moore

296 June 3 To John Hanson

297 June 6 To Francis Hodgson

298 June 8 To Francis Hodgson

299 June 9 To John Murray

300 June 12 To John Murray

301 June 13 To John Murray

302 June 18 To John Murray

303 June 18 To W. Gifford

304 June 22 To John Murray

305 June 22 To Thomas Moore

306 June 26 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

307 undated To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

308 June 27 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

309 July 1 To John Murray

310 July 8 To Thomas Moore

311 July 13 To Thomas Moore

312 July 18 To John Hanson

313 July 22 To John Murray

314 July 25 To Thomas Moore

315 July 27 To Thomas Moore

316 July 28 To Thomas Moore

317 July 31 To John Murray

318 Aug. 2 To John Wilson Croker

319 undated To John Murray

320 Aug. 10 To John Murray

321 Aug. 12 To James Wedderburn Webster

322 Aug. 22 To Thomas Moore

323 Aug. 26 To John Murray

324 Aug. 28 To Thomas Moore

325 Sept. 1 To Thomas Moore

326 Sept. 2 To James Wedderburn Webster

327 Sept. 5 To Thomas Moore

328 Sept. 8 To Thomas Moore

329 Sept. 9 To Thomas Moore

330 Sept. 15 To James Wedderburn Webster

331 Sept. 15 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

332 Sept. 15 To John Murray

333 Sept. 25 To——Bolton

334 Sept. 27 To Sir James Mackintosh

335 Sept. 27 To Thomas Moore

336 Sept. 29 To John Murray

337 Sept. 30 To James Wedderburn Webster

338 Oct. 1 To Francis Hodgson

339 Oct. 2 To Thomas Moore

340 Oct. 3 To John Murray

341 Oct. 10 To John Hanson

342 Oct. 10 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

343 Oct. 12 To John Murray

344 Nov. 8 To the Hon. Augusta Leigh

345 Nov. 12 To John Murray

346 Nov. 12 To William Gifford

347 Nov. 12 To John Murray

348 Nov. 13 To John Murray

349 undated To John Murray

350 Nov. 13 To John Murray

351 Nov. 14 To John Murray

352 Nov. 15 To John Murray

353 Nov. 17 To John Murray

354 Nov. 20 To John Murray

355 Nov. 22 To John Murray

356 Nov. 23 To John Murray

357 Nov. 24 To John Murray

358 Nov. 27 To John Murray

359 Nov. 28 To John Murray

360 Nov. 29 To John Murray

361 Nov. 29 To John Murray

362 Nov. 29 To John Murray

363 Nov. 30 To John Murray

364 Dec. 1 To Thomas Moore

365 Dec. 1 To Francis Hodgson

366 Dec. 2 To John Murray

367 Dec. 2 To Leigh Hunt

368 Dec. 3 To John Murray

369 Dec. 3 To John Murray

370 undated To John Murray

371 Dec. 4 To John Murray

372 Dec. 6 To John Murray

373 Dec. 8 To Thomas Moore

374 Dec. 11 To John Galt

375 Dec. 14 To John Murray

376 Dec. 14 To Thomas Ashe

377 Dec. 15 To Professor Clarke

378 Dec. 22 To Leigh Hunt

379 Dec. 27 To John Murray

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Список дневниковых записей

November 16th, 1813

November 17th, 1813

November 22nd, 1813

November 23rd, 1813

November 24th, 1813

«Mezza Notte»

November 26th, 1813

November 27th, 1813

November 30th, 1813

December 1st, 1813

December 5th, 1813

December 6th, 1813

December 7th, 1813

December 10th, 1813

December 12th, 1813

December 13th, 1813

December 14th, 15th, 16th, 1813

December 17th, 18th, 1813

January 16th, 1814

February 18th, 1814

February 19th, 1814

February 20th, 1814

February 27th, 1814

March 6th, 1814

March 7th, 1814

March 10th, 1814

March 15th, 1814

March 17th, 1814

March 20th, 1814

March 22nd, 1814

March 28th, 1814

April 8th, 1814

April 9th, 1814

April 10th, 1814

April 19th, 1814

Contents

Подробное содержание приложений

Приложение I — Статьи из «Мансли ревью»

«Стихотворения» У. Р. Спенсера

«Забытый гений» У. Г. Айрленда

Приложение II — Парламентские речи

Дебаты о Билле о разрушителях станков

Дебаты о требованиях римских католиков

Дебаты о петиции майора Картрайта

Приложение III — Леди Кэролайн Лэм и Байрон

Раннее письмо леди Кэролайн Лэм к Байрону

Строки, написанные леди Кэролайн и произнесенные во время сожжения его чучела

Письмо леди Кэролайн к Байрону, написанное после новой встречи с ним

Письмо леди Кэролайн к Байрону, написанное в связи со слухами о супружеском разрыве

Письмо леди Кэролайн к Байрону, написанное после публикации «Прощай»

Два письма, написанные леди Кэролайн после смерти Байрона

Приложение IV — Письма Бернарда Бартона

April 14th, 1814

April 15th, 1814

Часть черновика ответа Байрона

Приложение V — Переписка с Вальтером Скоттом

Scott's Reply to Byron's Letter of July 6, 1812

Приложение VI — «Великан и карлик»

стихотворение, написанное друзьями Ли Ханта в ответ Муру

Appendix VII—Attacks upon Byron in the Newspapers for February and March, 1814

«Курьер»

Lord Byron: February 1, 1814

February 2, 1814

February 3, 1814

Byroniana No. 1: February 5, 1814

Byroniana No. 2: February 8, 1814

Byroniana No. 3: February 12, 1814

Byroniana No. 4: February 17, 1814

Byroniana No. 5: February 19, 1814

March 15, 1814

«Морнинг пост»

Verses: February 5, 1814

To Lord Byron: February 7, 1814

Lord Byron: February 8, 1814

Lines: February 8, 1814

Lines: February 11, 1814

To Lord Byron: February 15, 1814

To Lord Byron: February 16, 1814

Verses Addressed To Lord Byron: February 16, 1814

Patronage Extraordinary: February 17, 1814

Lord Byron: February 18, 1814

«Сан»

February 4, 1814

Epigram: February 8, 1814

Lord Byron: February 11, 1814

Parody: February 16, 1814

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Глава V — «Чайльд-Гарольд», песни I, II

August, 1811-March, 1812

Письмо № 169 — Джону Мюррею

A 2 My 3 But 4

Byron

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170 — Джеймсу Уэддерберну Вебстеру

My Dear W. Conceiving Hysterics 2 Your 3

friends

mio Caro W. Vis Sulky diffidence

Byron

Footnote 1: Waterloo, and other Poems A Genealogical Account of the Wedderburn Family

Memoirs, Journals, etc. "He told me," writes Moore, "that, one day, travelling from Newstead to town with Lord Byron in his vis-a-vis, the latter kept his pistols beside him, and continued silent for hours, with the most ferocious expression possible on his countenance.

'For God's sake, my dear B.,' said W—— at last, 'what are you thinking of? Are you about to commit murder? or what other dreadful thing are you meditating?'

To which Byron answered that he always had a sort of presentiment that his own life would be attacked some time or other; and that this was the reason of his always going armed, as it was also the subject of his thoughts at that moment."

ibid "W. W. owes Lord Byron, he says, £1000, and does not seem to have the slightest intention of paying him."

Memoirs, Journals, etc "To the Devizes ball in the evening; Lady Frances W. there; introduced to her, and had much conversation, chiefly about our friend Lord B. Several of those beautiful things, published (if I remember right) with the Bride, were addressed to her. She must have been very pretty when she had more of the freshness of youth, though she is still but five or six and twenty; but she looks faded already" (1819).

Webster v. Baldwin

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Footnote 2: vis-a-vis vis-a-vis "Reddish's Hotel, 29th July, 1811.

"My Dear Webster,—As this eternal vis-a-vis seems to sit heavy on your soul, I beg leave to apprize you that I have arranged with Goodall: you are to give me the promised Wheels, and the lining, with 'the Box at Brighton,' and I am to pay the stipulated sum.

"I am obliged to you for your favourable opinion, and trust that the happiness you talk so much of will be stationary, and not take those freaks to which the felicity of common mortals is subject. I do very sincerely wish you well, and am so convinced of the justice of your matrimonial arguments, that I shall follow your example as soon as I can get a sufficient price for my coronet. In the mean time I should be happy to drill for my new situation under your auspices; but business, inexorable business, keeps me here. Your letters are forwarded. If I can serve you in any way, command me. I will endeavour to fulfil your requests as awkwardly as another. I shall pay you a visit, perhaps, in the autumn. Believe me, dear W.,

Yours unintelligibly,

B."

"Reddish's Hotel, July 31st, 1811.

My Dear W. W.,—I always understood that the lining was to accompany the carriage; if not, the carriage may accompany the lining, for I will have neither the one nor the other. In short, to prevent squabbling, this is my determination, so decide;—if you leave it to my feelings (as you say) they are very strongly in favour of the said lining. Two hundred guineas for a carriage with ancient lining!!! Rags and rubbish! You must write another pamphlet, my dear W., before; but pray do not waste your time and eloquence in expostulation, because it will do neither of us any good, but decide—content or not content. The best thing you can do for the Tutor you speak of will be to send him in your Vis (with the lining) to 'the U-Niversity of Göttingen.' How can you suppose (now that my own Bear is dead) that I have any situation for a German genius of this kind, till I get another, or some children? I am infinitely obliged by your invitations, but I can't pay so high for a second-hand chaise to make my friends a visit. The coronet will not grace the 'pretty Vis,' till your tattered lining ceases to disgrace it. Pray favour me with an answer, as we must finish the affair one way or another immediately,—before next week.

Believe me, yours truly,

Byron."

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171 — Р. К. Далласу

I 1 I 2 3 amongst Besides Imitation of Horace 4

If 5

The 6 Now 7 last word

Footnote 1: Letters note

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Footnote 5: "In Seaham churchyard, without any memorial," says Mr. Surtees, "rest the remains of Joseph Blacket, an unfortunate child of genius, whose last days were soothed by the generous attention of the family of Milbanke."

Hist. of Durham Letters note note

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Footnote 6: "It is, I believe, certainly true that the King has taken for the last three days scarcely any food at all, and that, unless a change takes place very shortly in that respect, he cannot survive many days"

uckland Correspondence

"The King, I should suppose," wrote Lord Buckinghamshire, on August 13, "is not likely to die soon, but I fear his mental recovery is hardly to be expected "

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172 — Р. К. Далласу

It 2

Childe Harold So 3

You murderers 4

There 5 protégé Armageddon "And fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

neat wines

Footnote 1: "I have been reading the Remains of Kirke White, and find that you have to answer for misleading me. He does not, in my opinion, merit the high praise you have bestowed upon him."

note Childe Harold "In your note, as it stands, it strikes me that the eulogy on Matthews is a little at the expense of Wingfield and others whom you have commemorated. I should think it quite enough to say that his Powers and Attainments were above all praise, without expressly admitting them to be above that of a Muse who soars high in the praise of others."

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Footnote 5: Poems Armageddon The Critic London Review Armageddon Hints from Horace note Poems

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173 — Достопочтенной Августе Ли

I 2 you Rattle Gag

3 been long your 4

Fraternity!"

Footnote 1: Letters note "6 Mile Bottom, Aug. 27th.

"My Dearest Brother,—Your letter was stupidly sent to Town to me on Sunday, from whence I arrived at home yesterday; consequently I have not received it so soon as I ought to have done. I feel so very happy to have the pleasure of hearing from you that I will not delay a moment answering it, altho' I am in all the delights of unpacking, and afraid of being too late for the Post.

"I have been a fortnight in Town, and went up on my eldest little girl's account. She had been very unwell for some time, and I could not feel happy till I had better advice than this neighbourhood affords. She is, thank Heaven! much better, and I hope in a fair way to be quite herself again. Mr. Davies flattered me by saying she was exactly the sort of child you would delight in. I am determined not to say another word in her praise for fear you should accuse me of partiality and expect too much. The youngest (little Augusta) is just 6 months old, and has no particular merit at present but a very sweet placid temper.

"Oh! that I could immediately set out to Newstead and shew them to you. I can't tell you half the happiness it would give me to see it and you; but, my dearest B., it is a long journey and serious undertaking all things considered. Mr. Davies writes me word you promise to make him a visit bye and bye; pray do, you can then so easily come here. I have set my heart upon it. Consider how very long it is since I've seen you.

"I have indeed much to tell you; but it is more easily said than written. Probably you have heard of many changes in our situation since you left England; in a pecuniary point of view it is materially altered for the worse; perhaps in other respects better. Col. Leigh has been in Dorsetshire and Sussex during my stay in Town. I expect him at home towards the end of this week, and hope to make him acquainted with you ere long.

"I have not time to write half I have to say, for my letter must go; but I prefer writing in a hurry to not writing at all. You can't think how much I feel for your griefs and losses, or how much and constantly I have thought of you lately. I began a letter to you in Town, but destroyed it, from the fear of appearing troublesome. There are times, I know, when one cannot write with any degree of comfort or satisfaction. I intend to do so again shortly, so I hope yon won't think me a bore.

Remember me most kindly to Old Joe. I rejoice to hear of his health and prosperity. Your letter (some parts of it at least) made me laugh. I am so very glad to hear you have sufficiently overcome your prejudices against the fair sex to have determined upon marrying; but I shall be most anxious that my future Belle Soeur should have more attractions than merely money, though to be sure that is somewhat necessary. I have not another moment, dearest B., so forgive me if I write again very soon, and believe me,

Your most affec'tn Sister, A. L.

Do write if you can."

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Footnote 2: Letters note Detached Thoughts "One night Scrope Davies at a Gaming house (before I was of age), being tipsy as he usually was at the Midnight hour, and having lost monies, was in vain intreated by his friends, one degree less intoxicated than himself, to come or go home. In despair, he was left to himself and to the demons of the dice-box.

Next day, being visited about two of the Clock, by some friends just risen with a severe headache and empty pockets (who had left him losing at four or five in the morning), he was found in a sound sleep, without a night-cap, and not particularly encumbered with bed-cloathes: a Chamber-pot stood by his bed-side, brim-full of—-Bank Notes!, all won, God knows how, and crammed, Scrope knew not where; but There they were, all good legitimate notes, and to the amount of some thousand pounds."

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174 — Достопочтенной Августе Ли

My Dear Augusta

now temper

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175 — Джеймсу Уэддерберну Вебстеру

My Dear W. My 1 Pursuits of L. poetry

Baviad Baviad Pursuits of Literature

know 2 melancholish folk merry

Byron

Footnote 1: Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and other Poems (1809) Letters note 1

The Pursuits of Literature (1794-97)

Baviad

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176 — Достопочтенной Августе Ли

Mr 2

I

not make angry

me laugh serious you I

Autumn Vis bright thought

Footnote 1: "6 Mile Bottom, Saturday, 31 Aug.

My dearest brother,—I hope you don't dislike receiving letters so much as writing them, for you would in that case pronounce me a great torment. But as I prepared you in my last for its being followed very soon by another, I hope you will have reconciled your mind to the impending toil. I really wrote in such a hurry that I did not say half I wished; but I did not like to delay telling you how happy you made me by writing. I have been dwelling constantly upon the idea of going to Newstead ever since I had your wish to see me there. At last a bright thought struck me.

We intend, I believe, to go to Yorkshire in the autumn. Now, if I could contrive to pay you a visit en passant, it would be delightful, and give me the greatest pleasure. But I fear you would be obliged to make up your mind to receive my Brats too. As for my husband, he prefers the outside of the Mail to the inside of a Post-Chaise, particularly when partly occupied by Nurse and Children, so that we always travel independent of each other.

So much for this, my dear B. I can only say I should much like to see you at Newstead. The former I hope I shall at all events, as you must not be shabby, but come to Cambridge as you promised. Are you staying at Newstead now for any time? I saw George Byron in Town for one day, and he promised to call or write again, but has not done either, so I begin to think he has gone back to Lisbon. I think it is impossible not to like him; he is so good-natured and natural. We talked much of you; he told me you were grown very thin; as you don't complain, I hope you are not the worse for being so, and I remember you used to wish it. Don't you think it a great shame that George B. is not promoted? I wish there was any possibility of assisting him about it; but all I know who could do any good with you present Ministers, I don't for many reasons like to ask. Perhaps there may be a change bye and bye.

Fred Howard is married to Miss Lambton. I saw them in town in their way to Castle Howard. I hope he will be happy with all my heart; his kindness and friendship to us last year, when Col. Leigh was placed in one of the most perplexing situations that I think anybody could be in, is never to be forgotten. I think he used to be a greater favourite with you than some others of his family. Mrs. F.H. is very pretty, very young (not quite 17), and appears gentle and pleasing, which is all one can expect [to discover from] a very slight acquaintance.

Now, my dearest Byron, pray let me hear from you. I shall be daily expecting to hear of a Lady Byron, since you have confided to me your determination of marrying, in which I really hope you are serious, being convinced such an event would contribute greatly to your happiness, provided her Ladyship was the sort of person that would suit you; and you won't be angry with me for saying that it is not every one who would; therefore don't be too precipitate. You will wish me hanged, I fear, for boring you so unmercifully, so God bless you, my dearest Bro.; and, when you have time, do write. Are you going to amuse us with any more Satires? Oh, English Bards! I shall make you laugh (when we meet) about it.

Ever your most affectionate Sis. and Friend,

A.L.

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177 — Фрэнсису Ходжсону

My Dear Hodgson will 1 "Post Mortem nihil est, ipsaque Mors nihil ... quæris quo jaceas post obitum loco? Quo non Nata jacent."2

dark weary

And 4 come sent

here there

Footnote 1: Childe Harold

Letters note 2 Southwell, Ap: 16th, 1807.

"Your Epistle, my dear Standard Bearer, augurs not much in favour of your new life, particularly the latter part, where you say your happiest Days are over. I most sincerely hope not. The past has certainly in some parts been pleasant, but I trust will be equalled, if not exceeded by the future. You hope it is not so with me.

"To be plain with Regard to myself. Nature stampt me in the Die of Indifference. I consider myself as destined never to be happy, although in some instances fortunate. I am an isolated Being on the Earth, without a Tie to attach me to life, except a few School-fellows, and a score of females. Let me but 'hear my fame on the winds' and the song of the Bards in my Norman house, I ask no more and don't expect so much. Of Religion I know nothing, at least in its favour. We have fools in all sects and Impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one understands, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for Inspiration, and style themselves Evangelicals? However enough on this subject. Your piety will be aghast, and I wish for no proselytes. This much I will venture to affirm, that all the virtues and pious Deeds performed on Earth can never entitle a man to Everlasting happiness in a future State; nor on the other hand can such a Scene as a Seat of eternal punishment exist, it is incompatible with the benign attributes of a Deity to suppose so.

"I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but, as you will see, not infected with the mania. I have lived a Deist, what I shall die I know not; however, come what may, ridens moriar.

"Nothing detains me here but the publication, which will not be complete till June. About 20 of the present pieces will be cut out, and a number of new things added. Amongst them a complete Episode of Nisus and Euryalus from Virgil, some Odes from Anacreon, and several original Odes, the whole will cover 170 pages. My last production has been a poem in imitation of Ossian, which I shall not publish, having enough without it. Many of the present poems are enlarged and altered, in short you will behold an 'Old friend with a new face.' Were I to publish all I have written in Rhyme, I should fill a decent Quarto; however, half is quite enough at present. You shall have all when we meet.

"I grow thin daily; since the commencement of my System I have lost 23 lbs. in my weight (i.e.) 1 st. and 9 lbs. When I began I weighed 14 st. 6 lbs., and on Tuesday I found myself reduced to 12 st. 11 lb. What sayest thou, Ned? do you not envy? I shall still proceed till I arrive at 12 st. and then stop, at least if I am not too fat, but shall always live temperately and take much exercise.

"If there is a possibility we shall meet in June. I shall be in Town, before I proceed to Granta, and if the 'mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mountain.' I don't mean, by comparing you to the mountain, to insinuate anything on the Subject of your Size. Xerxes, it is said, formed Mount Athos into the Shape of a Woman; had he lived now, and taken a peep at Chatham, he would have spared himself the trouble and made it unnecessary by finding a Hill ready cut to his wishes.

"Adieu, dear Mont Blanc, or rather Mont Rouge; don't, for Heaven's sake, turn Volcanic, at least roll the Lava of your indignation in any other Channel, and not consume Your's ever,

Byron.

"Write Immediately."

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Detached Thoughts "If I were to live over again, I do not know what I would change in my life, unless it were for—not to have lived at all. All history and experience, and the rest, teaches us that the good and evil are pretty equally balanced in this existence, and that what is most to be desired is an easy passage out of it. What can it give us but years? and those have little of good but their ending.

"Of the immortality of the soul it appears to me that there can be little doubt, if we attend for a moment to the action of mind; it is in perpetual activity. I used to doubt of it, but reflection has taught me better. It acts also so very independent of body—in dreams, for instance;—incoherently and madly, I grant you, but still it is mind, and much more mind than when we are awake. Now that this should not act separately, as well as jointly, who can pronounce? The stoics, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, call the present state 'a soul which drags a carcass,'—a heavy chain, to be sure; but all chains being material may be shaken off. How far our future life will be individual, or, rather, how far it will at all resemble our present existence, is another question; but that the mind is eternal seems as probable as that the body is not so. Of course I here venture upon the question without recurring to Revelation, which, however, is at least as rational a solution of it as any other. A material resurrection seems strange, and even absurd, except for purposes of punishment; and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong; and when the world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer? Human passions have probably disfigured the divine doctrines here;—but the whole thing is inscrutable."

"It is useless to tell me not to reason, but to believe. You might as well tell a man not to wake, but sleep. And then to bully with torments, and all that! I cannot help thinking that the menace of hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains."

"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of good in his main-spring of mind. But, God help us all! it is at present a sad jar of atoms."

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Quæris, quo jaceas post obitum loco?

Quo non nata jacent."

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Menandri et Philemonis reliquiæ, Florilegium

Comicorum Græcorum Sententiæ, id est

Bacchides "Quem di diligunt adolescens moritur."

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Footnote 4: Memoir of the Rev. Francis Hodgson Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words, sub voce Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam "Les Européens les ont appelés talapoins, probablement du nom de l'éventail qu'ils tiennent à la main, lequel s'appelle talapat, qui signifie feuille de palmier."

Dial. André des Couches à Siam

"A. des C.: Combien avez-vous de soldats?

Croutef.: Quatre-vingt mille, fort médiocrement payés.

A. des C.: Et de talapoins?

Cr.: Cent vingt-mille, tous fainéans et trés riches," etc.

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I Hints from Horace 1

Byron

Footnote 1: Hints from Horace English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers

English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers Hints from Horace "24, Cockspur Street, Aug. 22'd, 1811.

"My Lord,—Mr. Green the Amanuensis has finished the Latin of the Horace, and I shall be happy to do with it as your Lordship may direct, either to forward it to Newstead, or keep it in Town. Would it not be better to print a small edition seperate (sic), and afterwards print the two satires together? This I leave to your Lordship's consideration. Four Sheets of the Travels are already printed, and one of the plates (Albanian Solain) is executed. I sent it Capt. H[obhouse] yesterday to Cork, to see if it meets his approbation. The work is printed in quarto, for which I may be in some measure indebted to your Lordship, as I urged it so strongly. I shall be extremely sorry if Capt. H. is not pleased with it, but I think he will. Your Lordship's goodness will excuse me for saying how much the very sudden and melancholy events that have lately transpired—I regret—Capt. Hobhouse has written me since the decease of Mr. Mathews. I am told Capt. H. is very much affected at it. I have received some drawings of costumes from him, which I am to deliver to your Lordship. Is it likely we shall see your Lordship in Town soon?

"I have the honour to be your Lordship's

"Most respectful and greatly obliged Servt.,

"James Cawthorn.

"If a small edition is printed of 'Horace' for the first" [words erased] "that, and I think in all probability the 'E. Bards' will want reprinting about March next, when both could be done together. Do not think me too sanguine."

"Newstead Abbey, September 4th, 1811.

"More notes for the 'Hints'! You mistake me much by thinking me inattentive to this publication. If I had a friend willing and able to correct the press, it should be out with my good will immediately. Pray attend to annexing additional notes in their proper places, and let them be added immediately.

"Yours, etc.,

"Byron."

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Sir Æneid political political On 2 un Orthodox

You 3

Collieries unpoetical

Byron

Footnote 1: "London, Sept. 4, 1811, Wednesday.

"My Lord,—An absence of some days, passed in the country, has prevented me from writing earlier in answer to your obliging letter. I have now, however, the pleasure of sending under a separate cover, the first proof sheet of your Lordship's Poem, which is so good as to be entitled to all your care to render perfect. Besides its general merit, there are parts, which, I am tempted to believe, far excel anything that your Lordship has hitherto published, and it were therefore grievous indeed, if you do not condescend to bestow upon it all the improvement of which your Lordship's mind is so capable; every correction already made is valuable, and this circumstance renders me more confident in soliciting for it your further attention.

"There are some expressions, too, concerning Spain and Portugal, which, however just, and particularly so at the time they were conceived, yet as they do not harmonize with the general feeling, would so greatly interfere with the popularity which the poem is, in other respects, so certainly calculated to excite, that, in compassion to your publisher, who does not presume to reason upon the subject, otherwise than as a mere matter of business, I hope your Lordship's goodness will induce you to obviate them, and, with them, perhaps, some religious feelings which may deprive me of some customers amongst the Orthodox.

"Could I flatter myself that these suggestions were not obtrusive, I would hazard another, in an earnest solicitation that your Lordship would add the two promised Cantos, and complete the Poem. It were cruel indeed not to perfect a work which contains so much that is excellent; your Fame, my Lord, demands it; you are raising a Monument that will outlive your present feelings, and it should therefore be so constructed as to excite no other associations than those of respect and admiration for your Lordship's Character and Genius.

"I trust that you will pardon the warmth of this address when I assure your Lordship that it arises, in the greatest degree, in a sincere regard for your lasting reputation, with, however, some view to that portion of it, which must attend the Publisher of so beautiful a Poem, as your Lordship is capable of rendering

"The Romaunt of Childe Harold.

"I have the honour to be, My Lord,

"Your Lordship's

"Obedient and faithful servant,

"John Murray."

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would 1

sensations you are all right and 2

poem not Your 3 though Horæ Ionicæ 4

could make

Footnote 1: Barmaid Works "Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight,

And bid these arms thy neck infold;

That rosy cheek, that lily hand,

Would give thy poet more delight,

Than all Bocara's vaunted gold,

Than all the gems of Samarcand."

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Footnote 3: English Lyrics Annual Register

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one which Somebody Virgin it him another next that

here

You 1

Footnote 1: Don Juan "In fact, there's nothing makes me so much grieve,

As that abominable tittle-tattle,

Which is the cud eschewed by human cattle."

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have Juvenal Lady Jane 1 will 2

melancholy mad

Won't 3

presume 4 Eheu fugaces!

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Footnote 3: Mayor of Garratt "Heel-Tap. Now, neighbours, have a good caution that this Master Mug does not cajole you; he is a damn'd palavering fellow."

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Childe Harold 'Tis said at times the sullen tear would start.

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thank old song religion 1 first admire 2 Good plays are scarce,

So Moore writes Farce;

Is Fame like his so brittle?

We knew before

That "Little's" Moore,

But now 'tis Moore that's Little.

injustice Son God pure immaculate innocent Guilty His man's lie deceived miracles 3 proselytes 4

Jew

nonentity Great First Cause, least understood pro con pair of legs he 5

Byron

Footnote 1: Memoir of the Rev. F. Hodgson

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Footnote 2: M.P., or The Bluestocking

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Footnote 5: Candide, ou l'Optimisms "et Pangloss disait quelquefois à Candide; Tous les événements sont enchainés dans le meilleur des mondes possibles," etc.

"Your last letter has unfeignedly grieved me. Believing, as I do from my heart, that you would be better and happier by thoroughly examining the evidences for Christianity, how can I hear you say you will not read any book on the subject, without being pained? But God bless you under all circumstances. I will say no more. Only do not talk of 'shocking my prejudices,' or of 'rushing to see me before I am a Deacon.' I wish to see you at all times; and as to our different opinions, we can easily keep them to ourselves."

"Let me make one other effort. You mentioned an opinion of Hume's about miracles. For God's sake,—hear me, Byron, for God's sake—examine Paley's answer to that opinion; examine the whole of Paley's Evidences. The two volumes may be read carefully in less than a week. Let me for the last time by our friendship, implore you to read them."

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Byron

Footnote 1: Childe Harold "Fresh from the fencing rooms of Angelo and Jackson, he used to amuse himself by renewing his practice of Carte et Tierce, with his walking-cane directed against the bookshelves, while Murray was reading passages from the poem with occasional ejaculations of admiration, on which Byron would say, 'You think that a good idea, do you, Murray?' Then he would fence and lunge with his walking-stick at some special book which he had picked out on the shelves before him. As Murray afterwards said, 'I was often very glad to get rid of him!'"

Memoir of John Murray

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Dear Sir own way way my way

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Dear Sir motto "L'univers est une espèce de livre, dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu que son pays. J'en ai feuilleté un assez grand nombre, que j'ai trouvé également mauvaises. Cet examen ne m'a point été infructueux. Je haïssais ma patrie. Toutes les impertinences des peuples divers, parmi lesquels j'ai vécu, m'ont réconcilié avec elle. Quand je n'aurais tiré d'autre bénéfice de mes voyages que celui-là, je n'en regretterais ni les frais, ni les fatigues."

Le 1

Byron

Footnote 1: Gardes du Corps Henriade Travestie Préservatif Centre l'Anglomanie Le Cosmopolite Margot la Ravaudeuse, Thérlsé Philosophe Le Cosmopolite, ou le Citoyen du Monde

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errata

am 1 old new quiet inquietude hear their quarto 2 myself myself Janus

wish Payne's 3 that

Byron

Footnote 1: Letters note

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Footnote 3: Juvenal Hints from Horace "A literary friend of mine, walking out one lovely evening last summer, on the eleventh bridge of the Paddington canal, was alarmed by the cry of 'one in jeopardy:' he rushed along, collected a body of Irish haymakers (supping on buttermilk in an adjacent paddock), procured three rakes, one eel spear and a landing-net, and at last (horresco referens) pulled out—his own publisher. The unfortunate man was gone for ever, and so was a large quarto wherewith he had taken the leap, which proved, on inquiry, to have been Mr. Southey's last work. Its 'alacrity of sinking' was so great, that it has never since been heard of; though some maintain that it is at this moment concealed at Alderman Birch's pastry-premises, Cornhill. Be this as it may, the coroner's inquest brought in a verdict of 'Felo de Bibliopolâ' against a quarto unknown,' and circumstantial evidence being since strong against the Curse of Kehama (of which the above words are an exact description), it will be tried by its peers next session, in Grub Street—Arthur, Alfred, Davideis, Richard Coeur de Lion, Exodus, Exodiad, Epigoniad, Calvary, Fall of Cambria, Siege of Acre, Don Roderick, and Tom Thumb the Great, are the names of the twelve jurors. The judges are Pye, Bowles, and the bell-man of St. Sepulchre's."

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Oh Thou, in Hellas deem'd of heavenly birth,

etc., etc.

Since shamed full oft by later lyres on earth,

Mine, etc.

Yet there I've wandered by the vaunted rill;

glowing not Greek one scene all Noctes Atticæ

Hobhouse 1

Footnote 1: Travels in Albania

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Lisboa 1 the Hellas Eros modern Hints Romaunt them him good humour

By 2 Argus Cosmopolite

will angry 3

Footnote 1: Childe Harold note

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Footnote 2: Childe Harold "And now I'm in the world alone,

Upon the wide, wide sea;

But why should I for others groan,

When none will sigh for me?

Perchance my dog will whine in vain,

Till fed by stranger hands;

But long ere I come back again

He'd tear me where he stands."

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My Dear Hodgson

vice mem

my quarto his have 1 1 2 Edinburgh Review 3 Væ Victis

Felicissima Notte a Voss. Signoria,

Footnotes 1: Childe Harold

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My Dear Sir Some bitter bubbles up, and e'en on roses stings.

Full from the heart of joy's delicious springs

Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

you 1

Pray 2

enough

Byron

Footnote 1: Childe Harold

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Dear Webster

Sincerity Besides 1

Your 2 you

You 3

papers 4 Spare-rib Sto sempre umilissimo servitore

Byron

Footnote 1: Jerusalem Delivered Don Juan "But ne'er magician's wand

Wrought change, with all Armida's fairy art,

Like what this light touch left on Juan's heart."

Gerusalemme Liberata

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Dear Sir Stanzas 1 crossed stand alterations other 2

Footnote 1:

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XXV "In golden characters, right well designed,

First on the list appeareth one 'Junot;'

Then certain other glorious names we find;

(Which rhyme compelleth me to place below—)

Dull victors! baffled by a vanquished foe,

Wheedled by conynge tongues of laurels due,

Stand, worthy of each other, in a row

Sirs Arthur, Harry, and the dizzard Hew

Dalrymple, seely wight, sore dupe of 'tother tew."

XXVII "But when Convention sent his handy work,

Pens, tongues, feet, hands, combined in wild uproar;

Mayor, Alderman, laid down th' uplifted fork;

The bench of Bishops half forgot to snore;

Stern Cobbett, who for one whole week forbore

To question aught, once more with transport leapt,

And bit his dev'lish quill agen, and swore

With foe such treaty never should be kept.

Then burst the blatant beast, and roared and raged and—slept!!!"

XXVIII "Thus unto heaven appealed the people; heaven,

Which loves the lieges of our gracious King,

Decreed that ere our generals were forgiven,

Inquiry should be held about the thing.

But mercy cloaked the babes beneath her wing;

And as they spared our foes so spared we them.

(Where was the pity of our sires for Byng?)

Yet knaves, not idiots, should the law condemn.

Then live ye, triumph gallants! and bless your judges' phlegm."

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"Fyttes." have death 1 2

my your you you picturesque

Instruct Child of Harrow's Pilgrimage!!!!!3 sanity Hints

Byron

Footnote 1: Letters

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Footnote 2: "I have almost forgot the taste of fears:

...

I have supp'd full with horrors."

Macbeth

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nervous nervous ladies ennuyer

You 1 Slaves Anthology suppose Gysbert van Amsteli 2

Hints from Horace which 3 Edin. Annual Register 4 Hints weeks

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Murray's am 5

Demetrius 6

The 7 paulo majora dry

Footnote 1: Letters note Four Slaves of Cythera "Now full in sight the Paphian gardens smile,

And thence by many a green and summer isle,

Whose ancient walls and temples seem to sleep,

Enshadowed on the mirror of the deep,

They coast along Cythera's happy ground,

Gem of the sea, for love's delight renown'd."

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Footnote 2: Gysbrecht van Amstel Lucifer Paradise Lost Cain

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Dear Sir

IX There, thou! whose love and life together fled,

Have left me here to love and live in vain:—

Twined with my heart, and can I deem thee dead,

When busy Memory flashes o'er my brain?

Well—I will dream that we may meet again,

And woo the vision to my vacant breast;

If aught of young Remembrance then remain,

Be as it may

Whate'er beside Futurity's behest;

or Howe'er may be

For me 'twere bliss enough to see thy spirit blest!

male

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two fresh note

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Dear Sir whole Oh, known the earliest and beloved the most,

esteemed

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you not

Your 2

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Footnote 1: Anthologia Hibernica Odes Poems: by the late Thomas Little

Odes, Epistles, and Other Poems Edinburgh Review Edinburgh Irish Melodies Melodies National Airs Sacred Song

Corruption Intolerance The Sceptic Intercepted Letters, or the Twopenny Post-bag, by Thomas Brown the Younger The Twopenny Post-bag The Fudge Family in Paris Fables for the Holy Alliance

Lalla Rookh The Loves of the Angels Alciphron

Memoirs of Captain Rock The Epicurean The Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion The History of Ireland Sheridan Byron Lord Edward Fitzgerald The Cat

Memoirs, Journals, and Correspondence Conversations ibid "a delightful companion, gay without being boisterous, witty without effort, comic without coarseness, and sentimental without being lachrymose. He reminds one of the fairy who, whenever she spoke, let diamonds fall from her lips. My tête-à-tête suppers with Moore are among the most agreeable impressions I retain of the hours passed in London."

Edinburgh Review Poems Memoirs, Journals, and Correspondence

English Bards, etc. note "Dublin, January 1, 1810.

"My Lord,—Having just seen the name of 'Lord Byron' prefixed to a work entitled English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, in which, as it appears to me, the lie is given to a public statement of mine, respecting an affair with Mr. Jeffrey some years since, I beg you will have the goodness to inform me whether I may consider your Lordship as the author of this publication.

"I shall not, I fear, be able to return to London for a week or two; but, in the mean time, I trust your Lordship will not deny me the satisfaction of knowing whether you avow the insult contained in the passages alluded to.

"It is needless to suggest to your Lordship the propriety of keeping our correspondence secret.

"I have the honour to be,

"Your Lordship's very humble servant,

"Thomas Moore.

"22, Molesworth Street."

English Bards "'It is now useless,' I continued (Life, p. 143), 'to speak of the steps with which it was my intention to follow up that letter. The time which has elapsed since then, though it has done away neither the injury nor the feeling of it, has, in many respects, materially altered my situation; and the only object which I have now in writing to your Lordship is to preserve some consistency with that former letter, and to prove to you that the injured feeling still exists, however circumstances may compel me to be deaf to its dictates, at present. When I say "injured feeling," let me assure your Lordship that there is not a single vindictive sentiment in my mind towards you. I mean but to express that uneasiness, under (what I consider to be) a charge of falsehood, which must haunt a man of any feeling to his grave, unless the insult be retracted or atoned for; and which, if I did not feel, I should, indeed, deserve far worse than your Lordship's satire could inflict upon me.' In conclusion I added, that so far from being influenced by any angry or resentful feeling towards him, it would give me sincere pleasure if, by any satisfactory explanation, he would enable me to seek the honour of being henceforward ranked among his acquaintance."

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Sir unopened in his keeping

advances my auspicious

Footnote 1: As your Lordship does not show any wish to proceed beyond the rigid formulary of explanation, it is not for me to make any further advances. We Irishmen, in businesses of this kind, seldom know any medium between decided hostility and decided friendship; but, as any approaches towards the latter alternative must now depend entirely on your Lordship, I have only to repeat that I am satisfied with your letter, and that I have the honour to be," etc., etc.

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now satisfied

Footnote 1: "Piqued," says Moore (Life, 144), "at the manner in which my efforts towards a more friendly understanding were received,"

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Dear Sir stranger

Harold deny As Monastic dome 1

Footnote 1: Childe Harold

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yourself 1

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Byron

Footnote 1: "Neither Moore nor myself had ever seen Byron when it was settled that he should dine at my house to meet Moore; nor was he known by sight to Campbell, who, happening to call upon me that morning, consented to join the party. I thought it best that I alone should be in the drawing-room when Byron entered it; and Moore and Campbell accordingly withdrew. Soon after his arrival, they returned; and I introduced them to him severally, naming them as Adam named the beasts. When we sat down to dinner, I asked Byron if he would take soup? 'No; he never took soup.' 'Would he take some fish?' 'No; he never took fish.' Presently I asked if he would eat some mutton? 'No; he never ate mutton.' I then asked if he would take a glass of wine? 'No; he never tasted wine.' It was now necessary to inquire what he did eat and drink; and the answer was, 'Nothing but hard biscuits and soda-water.' Unfortunately, neither hard biscuits nor soda-water were at hand; and he dined upon potatoes bruised down on his plate and drenched with vinegar. My guests stayed very late, discussing the merits of Walter Scott and Joanna Baillie. Some days after, meeting Hobhouse, I said to him, 'How long will Lord Byron persevere in his present diet? 'He replied, 'Just as long as you continue to notice it.' I did not then know, what I now know to be a fact, that Byron, after leaving my house, had gone to a Club in St. James's Street and eaten a hearty meat-supper"

Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers Life "the nobleness of his air, his beauty, the gentleness of his voice and manners, and—what was naturally not the least attraction—his marked kindness to myself. Being in mourning for his mother, the colour, as well of his dress, as of his glossy, curling, and picturesque hair, gave more effect to the pure, spiritual paleness of his features, in the expression of which, when he spoke, there was a perpetual play of lively thought, though melancholy was their habitual character when in repose."

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Footnote 2: Life "the town mouse a sleek, well-fed, sly, white mouse, and the country mouse with its rough, weather-worn face and grey hairs; the town mouse displaying its delicate little rolls and pyramids of glistening strawberries, the country mouse exulting in its hollow tree, its crust of bread and liberty, and rallying its brother on his late hours and frequent dinners."

The Suspicious Husband "Time was," wrote Mathias (Pursuits of Literature, note, p. 360, ed. 1808), "when bankers were as stupid as their guineas could make them; they were neither orators, nor painters, nor poets. But now. .. Mr. Rogers dreams on Parnassus; and, if I am rightly informed, there is a great demand among his brethren for the Pleasures of Memory."

Ode to Superstition Pleasures of Memory Epistle to a Friend Columbus Jacqueline Human Life Italy Italy Pleasures of Memory Columbus Italy Detached Thoughts "When Sheridan was on his death-bed, Rogers aided him with purse and person. This was particularly kind of Rogers, who always spoke ill of Sheridan (to me, at least), but, indeed, he does that of everybody to anybody. Rogers is the reverse of the line:

'The best good man with the worst natured Muse,'

being:

'The worst good man with the best natured Muse.'

His Muse being all Sentiment and Sago and Sugar, while he himself is a venomous talker. I say 'worst good man' because he is (perhaps) a good man; at least he does good now and then, as well he may, to purchase himself a shilling's worth of salvation for his slanders. They are so little, too—small talk—and old Womanny, and he is malignant too—and envious—and—he be damned!"