«Письма и дневники лорда Байрона. Том 2»

'I'd give the lands of Deloraine

Dark Musgrave were alive again!'

that is

'I would give many a Sugar Cane

Monk Lewis were alive again!'

"Lewis said to me, 'Why do you talk Venetian (such as I could talk, not very fine to be sure) to the Venetians, and not the usual Italian?' I answered, partly from habit and partly to be understood, if possible. 'It may be so,' said Lewis, 'but it sounds to me like talking with a brogue to an Irishman.'"

Detached Thoughts "Mat had queerish eyes; they projected like those of some insect, and were flattish in their orbit. His person was extremely small and boyish; he was, indeed, the least man I ever saw to be strictly well and neatly made. I remember a picture of him by Saunders being handed round at Dalkeith House. The artist had ungenerously flung a dark folding mantle round the form, under which was half hid a dagger, or dark lanthorn, or some such cut-throat appurtenance. With all this the features were preserved and ennobled. It passed from hand to hand into that of Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, who, hearing the general voice affirm that it was very like, said aloud, 'Like Mat Lewis? Why, that picture is like a man.' He looked, and lo! Mat Lewis's head was at his elbow. His boyishness went through life with him. He was a child, and a spoiled child, but a child of high imagination, so that he wasted himself in ghost stories and German nonsense. He had the finest ear for the rhythm of verse I ever heard—finer than Byron's.

Lewis was fonder of great people than he ought to have been, either as a man of talent or a man of fortune. He had always dukes and duchesses in his mouth, and was particularly fond of any one who had a title. You would have sworn he had been a parvenu of yesterday, yet he had been all his life in good society.

He was one of the kindest and best creatures that ever lived. His father and mother lived separately. Mr. Lewis allowed his son a handsome income; but reduced it more than one half when he found that he gave his mother half of it. He restricted himself in all his expenses, and shared the diminished income with his mother as before. He did much good by stealth, and was a most generous creature.

I had a good picture drawn me, I think by Thos. Thomson, of Fox, in his latter days, suffering the fatigue of an attack from Lewis. The great statesman was become bulky and lethargic, and lay like a fat ox which for sometime endures the persecution of a buzzing fly, rather than rise to get rid of it; and then at last he got up, and heavily plodded his way to the other side of the room."

"I had a worse adventure with Mat Lewis. I had been his guide from the cottage I then had at Laswade to the Chapel of Roslin. We were to go up one side of the river and come down the other. In the return he was dead tired, and, like the Israelites, he murmured against his guide for leading him into the wilderness. I was then as strong as a poney, and took him on my back, dressed as he was in his shooting array of a close sky-blue jacket, and the brightest red pantaloons I ever saw on a human breech. He also had a kind of feather in his cap. At last I could not help laughing at the ridiculous figure we must both have made, at which my rider waxed wroth. It was an ill-chosen hour and place, for I could have served him as Wallace did Fawden—thrown him down and twisted his head off. We returned to the cottage weary wights, and it cost more than one glass of Noyau, which he liked in a decent way, to get Mat's temper on its legs again."

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Footnote 5: The Bride of Abydos Zuleika

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Footnote 7: Henry IV.

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November 16th, 1813

Went Antony and Cleopatra 1 Did words things 2 words things

talks

he we

ma petite cousine Giaour The Bride of Abydos The Giaour that

hate 3

Footnote 1: Antony and Cleopatra All for Love, or the World Well Lost

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Footnote 2: "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

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Footnote 3: "——-my weal, my woe,

My hope on high—my all below;

Earth holds no other like to thee,

Or, if it doth, in vain for me:

For worlds I dare not view the dame

Resembling thee, yet not the same."

The Giaour

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November 17th, 1813

The living man 1 dead man did The Bride of Abydos did

George 2 pro Scoto kings British Critic Entusymusy soul

other soul

ma petite cousine have

reality

If 3

What 4

Héros de Roman Autrichienne never 5 one

It 6 has pro tempore ex tempore 7 believe men 8 nonchalant us Last 9 I hers like De l'Allemagne mirage verbiage

blonde

The Giaour The Bride of Abydos say

have per diem 10 cool not any

Mem 11 12

am 13 to him padre

Footnote 1: "Wherefore doth a living man complain?"

Lam

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Footnote 2: Rolliad Anti-Jacobin

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Footnote 3: "I dare not fight; but I will wink, and hold out mine iron."

Henry V

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Footnote 4: "Bold Robert Speer was Bony's bad precursor.

Bob was a bloody dog, but Bonaparte a worser."

"We owe great gratitude to this thunderstorm of a fellow for clearing the air of all the old legitimate fogs that have settled upon us, and I sincerely trust his task is not yet over."

Life "After an instant's pause, Lord Byron replied, 'I am damned sorry for it;' and then, after another slight pause, he added, 'I didn't know but I might live to see Lord Castlereagh's head on a pole. But I suppose I shan't now.'"

Detached Thoughts "The vanity of Victories is considerable. Of all who fell at Waterloo or Trafalgar, ask any man in company to name you ten off hand. They will stick at Nelson: the other will survive himself. Nelson was a hero, the other is a mere Corporal, dividing with Prussians and Spaniards the luck which he never deserved. He even—but I hate the fool, and will be silent."

"The Miscreant Wellington is the Cub of Fortune, but she will never lick him into shape. If he lives, he will be beaten; that's certain. Victory was never before wasted upon such an unprofitable soil as this dunghill of Tyranny, whence nothing springs but Viper's eggs."

"I remember seeing Blucher in the London Assemblies, and never saw anything of his age less venerable. With the voice and manners of a recruiting Sergeant, he pretended to the honours of a hero; just as if a stone could be worshipped because a man stumbled over it."

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Footnote 5: Henry IV

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Footnote 6:

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Footnote 7:

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Footnote 8: "L'intérêt est l'ame de l'amour-propre, de sorte que comme le corps, privé de son ame, est sans vue, sans ouïe, sans connoissance, sans sentiment, et sans mouvement; de même l'amour-propre, séparé, s'il le faut dire ainsi, de son intérêt, ne voit, n'entend, ne sent, et ne se remue plus," etc., etc.

De Rerum Naturâ

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Footnote 9: "Monsieur de Puységur," says Lady H. Leveson Gower (Letters of Harriet, Countess of Granville, vol. i. p. 23), "is really concentré into one wrinkle. It is the oldest, gayest, thinnest, most withered, and most brilliant thing one can meet with. When there are so many young, fat fools going about the world, I wish for the transmigration of souls. Puységur might animate a whole family."

eine erstarrte Musik Life of Madame de Staël

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Footnote 10:

Lord Byron

To M. Richold

>

1813

£ s. d.

Balance of last bill

0 13 10

Aug. 9 To dinner bill 1 6 0

10 To do. do. 4 13 6

11 To do. do. 1 4 0

14 To do. do. 1 6 0

15 To share of do. 4 4 6

16 To dinner bill 1 6 0

17 To do. do. 1 6 6

19 To do. do. 1 2 6

20 To share of do. 4 19 0

21 To dinner bill 1 1 6

22 To do. do. 1 2 0

23 To do. do. 1 2 0

25 To do. do. 1 9 0

26 To dinner bill 1 1 6

27 To do. do. 1 8 6

Sept. 2 To do. do. 1 4 0

3 To do. do. 1 2 0

4 To do. do. 1 11 0

5 To do. do. 1 6 6

7 To do. do. 5 7 0

9 To do. do. 1 6 6

26 To do. do. 1 9 0

Nov. 14 To do. do. 1 0 6

21 To do. do. 0 19 0

Total

44 11 10

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Footnote 11: Henry IV.

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Footnote 12: note

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Footnote 13:

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November 22nd, 1813

Orange 1 Yet 2 that How 3 tumult aventure think 4

first Edinburgh Review Like Vicar of Wakefield 5 mill did "And marvels so much wit is all his own,"6

not

Southey Epic passages a party public

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7 a Littérateur 8 9 10 11 12 her te, Diva potens Cypri

Post-Bag! here

Footnote 1:

Orange Boven

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Footnote 2:

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Footnote 4:

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Footnote 5: Vicar of Wakefield "resolved to write a book that should be wholly new. I therefore dressed up three paradoxes with some ingenuity.... 'Well,' asks the Vicar, 'and what did the learned world say to your paradoxes?' 'Sir,' replied my son, 'the learned world said nothing to my paradoxes, nothing at all.... I found that no genius in another could please me. My unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of comfort. I could neither read nor write with satisfaction; for excellence in another was my aversion, and writing was my trade.'"

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Footnote 6: Imitations, etc. "With what delight rhymes on the scribbling dunce.

He's ne'er perplex'd to choose, but right at once;

With rapture hails each work as soon as done,

And wonders so much wit was all his own."

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Footnote 7: The Scottish Chiefs "I once had the gratification of Seeing Lord Byron. He was at Evening party at the Poet Sotheby's. I was not aware of his being in the room, or even that he had been invited, when I was arrested from listening to the person conversing with me by the Sounds of the most melodious Speaking Voice I had ever heard. It was gentle and beautifully modulated. I turned round to look for the Speaker, and then saw a Gentleman in black of an Elegant form (for nothing of his lameness could be discovered), and with a face I never shall forget. The features of the finest proportions. The Eye deep set, but mildly lustrous; and the Complexion what I at the time described to my Sister as a Sort of moonlight paleness. It was so pale, yet with all so Softly brilliant.

I instantly asked my Companion who that Gentleman was. He replied, 'Lord Byron.' I was astonished, for there was no Scorn, no disdain, nothing in that noble Countenance then of the proud Spirit which has since soared to Heaven, illuminating the Horizon far and wide."

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Footnote 9: Blues Life "in all the capitals of Europe. At one of her dinners in Park Street (all the company except herself being Whigs), the desperate prospects of the Whig party were discussed. Yes,' said Sydney Smith, who was present, 'we are in a most deplorable condition; we must do something to help ourselves. I think,' said he, looking at Lydia White, 'we had better sacrifice a Tory Virgin'"

Memoirs Journal "Lord and Lady Byron persuaded me to go with them to Miss White. Never have I seen a more imposing convocation of ladies arranged in a circle than when we entered, taking William Spencer with us. Lord Byron brought me home. He stayed to supper."

"Found him in high good humour. In talking of Miss White, he said, 'How wonderfully she does hold out! They may say what they will, but Miss White and Missolongi are the most remarkable things going"

Memoirs, etc.

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Footnote 10: Ina Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems Translations from the Italian Recollections of a Chaperon Tales of the Peerage and Peasantry

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Footnote 11: Blues "Sir George thinks exactly with Lady Bluebottle."

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Footnote 12: Letter on the Rev. W.L. Bowles's Strictures on Pope "The head of Lady Charlemont (when I first saw her, nine years ago) seemed to possess all that sculpture could require for its ideal."

Journals, etc. "Called upon Lady Charlemont, and sat with her some time. Lady Mansfield told me that the effect she produces here with her beauty is wonderful; last night, at the Comtesse d'Albany's, the Italians were ready to fall down and worship her."

Odes The Rape of the Lock

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November 23rd, 1813

piquant high regularly after

questa sera

Junius

"Shadows to-night

Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard,

Than could the substance of ten thousand —— s,

Arm'd all in proof, and led by shallow ——."1

all Since 2

note 3 4 5

Jackson 6 at all plunge Amant Camoenæ! 7

Roman realities

Redde Ruminator 8 Childe Alarique 9

serious

had 10

aut Cæsar aut nihil Vide thought fractus illabitur orbis 11 jeu eheu!

Giaour

ensemble andiamo dunque—se torniamo, bene—se non, ch' importa?

Morning Post

Footnote 1: "By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night

Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard

Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers,

Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond."

Richard III

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Footnote 2: The Clandestine Marriage "What with qualms, age, rheumatism, and a few surfeits in his youth, he must have a great deal of brushing, oyling, screwing, and winding up, to set him a-going for the day."

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Footnote 3:

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Footnote 4: Anti-Jacobin La Sainte Guillotine

Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft Beppo

Life "Frere is a slovenly fellow. His remarks on Homer, in the Classical Journal, prove how fine a Greek scholar he is; his Quarterly Reviews, how well he writes; his 'Rovers, or the Double Arrangement,' what humour he possesses; and the reputation he has left in Spain and Portugal, how much better he understood their literatures than they do themselves; while, at the same time, his books left in France, in Gallicia, at Lisbon, and two or three places in England; his manuscripts, neglected and lost to himself; his manners, lazy and careless; and his conversation, equally rich and negligent, show how little he cares about all that distinguishes him in the eyes of the world. He studies as a luxury, he writes as an amusement, and conversation is a kind of sensual enjoyment to him. If he had been born in Asia, he would have been the laziest man that ever lived."

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Footnote 5: note

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Footnote 6: Letters note

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Footnote 7: Eclogues

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Footnote 8: The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical, and sentimental Essays Censura Literaria

Memoirs of a Literary Veteran Childe Alarique The Ruminator The Ruminator Childe Alarique

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Footnote 9: Wallace, a Fragment Childe Alarique, a Poet's Reverie, with other Poems Confessions of Sir Henry Longueville, a Novel Memoirs of a Literary Veteran Foreign Quarterly Review

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Footnote 10: Detached Thoughts "At the Opposition meeting of the peers, in 1812, at Lord Grenville's, when Lord Grey and he read to us the correspondence upon Moira's negociation, I sate next to the present Duke of Grafton. When it was over, I turned to him and said, 'What is to be done next?' 'Wake the Duke of Norfolk' (who was snoring away near us), replied he. 'I don't think the Negociators have left anything else for us to do this turn.'"

"In the debate, or rather discussion, afterwards, in the House of Lords, upon that very question, I sate immediately behind Lord Moira, who was extremely annoyed at G.'s speech upon the subject, and while G. was speaking, turned round to me repeatedly and asked me whether I agreed with him? It was an awkward question to me, who had not heard both sides. Moira kept repeating to me, 'It was not so, it was so and so,' etc. I did not know very well what to think, but I sympathized with the acuteness of his feelings upon the subject."

"Lord Eldon affects an Imitation of two very different Chancellors—Thurlow and Loughborough—and can indulge in an oath now and then. On one of the debates on the Catholic question, when we were either equal or within one (I forget which), I had been sent for in great haste from a Ball, which I quitted, I confess somewhat reluctantly, to emancipate five Millions of people. I came in late, and did not go immediately into the body of the house, but stood just behind the Woolsack. Eldon turned round, and, catching my eye, immediately said to a peer (who had come to him for a few minutes on the Woolsack, as is the custom of his friends), 'Damn them! they'll have it now, by God!—the vote that is just come in will give it them.'"

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Footnote 11: Odes

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24th November, 1813

dreams 1

I 2 man 3 4 he he 5

tactique friend

English third

Gradus ad Parnassum c'est dommage Erin

Quarterly both now One 6

writers agents

Footnote 1: "Whole as the marble, founded as the rock."

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Footnote 2: Memoirs Life "I saw little of them, excepting Mr. Sharp, formerly a Member of Parliament, and who, from his talents in society, has been called 'Conversation Sharp.' He has been made an associate of most of the literary clubs in London, from the days of Burke down to the present time. He told me a great many amusing anecdotes of them, and particularly of Burke, Porson, and Grattan, with whom he had been intimate; and occupied the dinner-time as pleasantly as the same number of hours have passed with me in England....

June 7.—This morning I breakfasted with Mr. Sharp, and had a continuation of yesterday,—more pleasant accounts of the great men of the present day, and more amusing anecdotes of the generation that has passed away."

Journal "He is clever, but I should suspect of little real depth of intellect."

Epistles in Verse Letters and Essays "Yes! thou hast chosen well 'the better part,'

And, for the triumphs of the noblest art,

Hast wisely scorn'd the sordid cares of life."

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Footnote 3:

Diary

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Footnote 4: "O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead;

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds."

Romeo and Juliet

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Footnote 5: "He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not look upon his like again."

Hamlet

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Footnote 6: The Foundling of the Forest

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12, Mezza Notte

miller This not

By

Footnote 1:

Byron

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Четверг, 26 ноября [1813]

hers practics ethics

me faux pas

recollection not her now

penchant me

not méchante

when met tired

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Суббота, 27-е [ноября 1813]

doubt ne plus ultra

by N'importe Mary 1

Nourjahad Morning Post

Edinburgh Review There Moore me 2 first 3

Edinburgh Review myself myself

My 4

They apostate Abdiel 5 grace à Dieu et mon bon tempérament

Footnote 1: "Ah, deere ladye, said Robin Hood, thou

That art both Mother and May,

I think it was never man's destinye

To die before his day."

Ballad of Robin Hood

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Footnote 2: "Greece, the mother of freedom and of poetry in the West, which had long employed only the antiquary, the artist, and the philologist, was at length destined, after an interval of many silent and inglorious ages, to awaken the genius of a poet. Full of enthusiasm for those perfect forms of heroism and liberty which his imagination had placed in the recesses of antiquity, he gave vent to his impatience of the imperfections of living men and real institutions, in an original strain of sublime satire, which clothes moral anger in imagery of an almost horrible grandeur; and which, though it cannot coincide with the estimate of reason, yet could only flow from that worship of perfection which is the soul of all true poetry."

Edin. Rev

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Footnote 3: "In the last Edinburgh Review you will find two articles of mine, one on Rogers, and the other on Madame de Staël: they are both, especially the first, thought too panegyrical. I like the praises which I have bestowed on Lord Byron and Thomas Moore. I am convinced of the justness of the praises given to Madame de Staël."

Mackintosh's Life

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Footnote 4: "I have that within which passeth show."

Hamlet

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Footnote 5: " ... the seraph Abdiel, faithful found

Among the faithless."

Paradise Lost

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Вторник, 30-е [ноября 1813]

hiatus deflendus notching

Sunday 1 2 3 the 4 do that

done

Nourjahad perfect

To-day 5 having changed qualis ab incepto flatters know

is pun mine re-whig re-whigged warded 6

7 returned but apostatise

good personal 8 ouverte

Yesterday 9 savante

Footnote 1: Observations on the Criminal Law of England "It does the very highest honour to his moral character, which, I think, stands higher than that of any other conspicuous Englishman now alive. Probity, independence, humanity, and liberality breathe through every word; considered merely as a composition, accuracy, perspicuity, discretion, and good taste are its chief merits; great originality and comprehension of thought, or remarkable vigour of expression, it does not possess."

"Romilly," said Lord Lansdowne to Moore (Memoirs, etc., vol. ii. p. 211), "was a stern, reserved sort of man, and she was the only person in the world to whom he wholly unbent and unbosomed himself; when he lost her, therefore, the very vent of his heart was stopped up."

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Footnote 3: Edinburgh Review Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner al nobile giovinetto, Enrico Fox, figlio di Lord Holland

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Footnote 5: The Bride of Abydos "For an eloquent passage in the latest work of the first female writer of this, perhaps of any, age, on the analogy (and the immediate comparison excited by that analogy) between 'painting and music,' see vol. iii. cap. 10, De l'Allemagne."

"Sans cesse nous comparons la peinture à la musique, et la musique à la peinture, parceque les émotions que nous eprouvons nous révèlent des analogies où l'observation froide ne verroit que des différences," etc., etc.

"Argyll St., No. 31.

"Je ne saurais vous exprímer, my lord, à quel point je me trouve honorée d'être dans une note de votre poëme, et de quel poëme! il me semble que pour la première fois je me crois certaine d'un nom d'avenir et que vous avez disposé pour moi de cet empire de reputation qui vous sera tous les jours plus soumis. Je voudrais vous parler de ce poëme que tout le monde admire, mais j'avouerai que je suis trop suspecte en le louant, et je ne cache pas qu' une louage de vous m'a fait épreuver un sentiment de fierté et de réconaissance qui me rendrait incapable de vous juger; mais heureusement vous êtes au dessus du jugement.

"Donnez moi quelquefois le plaisir de vous voir; il-y-a un proverbe français qui dit qu'un bonheur ne va jamais sans d'autre.

"de Staël."

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Footnote 6: "Byron," writes Sir Walter Scott, in a hitherto unpublished note, "occasionally said what are called good things, but never studied for them. They came naturally and easily, and mixed with the comic or serious, as it happened. A professed wit is of all earthly companions the most intolerable. He is like a schoolboy with his pockets stuffed with crackers.

"No first-rate author was ever what is understood by a great conversational wit. Swift's wit in common society was either the strong sense of a wonderful man unconsciously exerting his powers, or that of the same being wilfully unbending, wilfully, in fact, degrading himself. Who ever heard of any fame for conversational wit lingering over the memory of a Shakespeare, a Milton, even of a Dryden or a Pope?

Johnson is, perhaps, a solitary exception. More shame to him. He was the most indolent great man that ever lived, and threw away in his talk more than he ever took pains to embalm in his writings.

It is true that Boswell has in great measure counteracted all this. But here is no defence. Few great men can expect to have a Boswell, and none ought to wish to have one, far less to trust to having one. A man should not keep fine clothes locked up in his chest only that his valet may occasionally show off in them; no, nor yet strut about in them in his chamber, only that his valet may puff him and his finery abroad.

What might not he have done, who wrote Rasselas in the evenings of eight days to get money enough for his mother's funeral expenses? As it is, what has Johnson done? Is it nothing to be the first intellect of an age? and who seriously talks even of Burke as having been more than a clever boy in the presence of old Samuel?"

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Footnote 8: "Nothing was more tiresome than Lewis when he began to harp upon any extravagant proposition. He would tinker at it for hours without mercy, and repeat the same thing in four hundred different ways. If you assented in despair, he resumed his reasoning in triumph, and you had only for your pains the disgrace of giving in. If you disputed, daylight and candle-light could not bring the discussion to an end, and Mat's arguments were always ditto repeated."

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Wednesday, December 1st, 1813

qualis ab incepto is 1 centre circles

purple Perhaps 2

Wrote 3 I

4 boring am 5 made There

Baldwin 6 bad 7 I

twenty-five "Oh Gioventu!

Oh Primavera! gioventu dell' anno.

Oh Gioventu! primavera della vita."

Footnote 1:

Strato For Brutus only overcame himself, And no man else hath honour by his death.

...

Octavius According to his virtue let us use him, With all respect and rites of burial.

Julius Cæsar

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Footnote 2: The Giaour "As rising on its purple wing

The insect-queen of Eastern spring

O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer

Invites the young pursuer near," etc.

"The blue-winged butterfly of Kashmeer, the most rare and beautiful of the species."

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Footnote 3: letter

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Footnote 4: note

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Footnote 5: Richard III

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Footnote 6: Sentimental Journey

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Footnote 7: Ibid.

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Воскресенье, 5 декабря [1813]

Fame greatest 1 English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers posthumous feel éclat reign

pain

aventure unknown rumours it is as well horrified The Giaour may feelings that situation icy

Bride of Abydos brightest darkest lively

dislikes sets distingué ton composed Blue Littérateur 2

sit

Morning, two o'clock.

mi perfect note my her De l'Allemagne he I

sprucery first-rate her one one

dignity

Introduced 3 4 savans

Footnote 1: Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke "Read English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, by Lord Byron. It is well written. His Lordship is rather severe, perhaps justly so, on Walter Scott, and most assuredly justly severe upon Monk Lewis."

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Footnote 2: Detached Thoughts "In general I do not draw well with literary men. Not that I dislike them, but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication. There are several exceptions, to be sure; but then they have always been men of the world, such as Scott and Moore, etc., or visionaries out of it, such as Shelley, etc. But your literary every-day man and I never went well in company, especially your foreigner, whom I never could abide,—except Giordani, and—and—and (I really can't name any other); I do not remember a man amongst them whom I ever wished to see twice, except, perhaps, Mezzophanti, who is a Monster of Languages, the Briareus of parts of speech, a walking Polyglott, and more—who ought to have existed at the time of the Tower of Babel as universal Interpreter. He is, indeed, a Marvel,—unassuming also. I tried him in all the tongues of which I have a single oath (or adjuration to the Gods against Postboys, Savages, Tartars, boatmen, sailors, pilots, Gondoliers, Muleteers, Cameldrivers, Vetturini, Postmasters, post-horses, post-houses, post-everything) and Egad! he astounded me even to my English."

"I suspect Lord Byron of some self-deceit as to this matter. It appears that he liked extremely the only first-rate men of letters into whose society he happened to be thrown in England. They happened to be men of the world, it is true; but how few men of very great eminence in literature, how few intellectually Lord B.'s peers, have not been men of the world? Does any one doubt that the topics he had most pleasure in discussing with Scott or Moore were literary ones, or had at least some relation to literature?

"As for the foreign literati, pray what literati anything like his own rank did he encounter abroad? I have no doubt he would have been as much at home with an Alfieri, a Schiller, or a Goethe, or a Voltaire, as he was with Scott or Moore, and yet two of these were very little of men of the world in the sense in which he uses that phrase.

"As to 'every-day men of letters,' pray who does like their company? Would a clever man like a prosing 'captain, or colonel, or knight-in-arms' the better for happening to be himself the Duke of Wellington?"

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Footnote 4: Edinburgh Review English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers Poems note Whistle for It Poems of Catullus

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Понедельник, 6 декабря [1813]

Bride She bride

Bull

incense he is used to it

Now 1

now poetically personally goal

now likely liked downright ities isms

To-day 2 l'oncle our will

lettering

Saw 3

any thing Monk philtered

donna di quaranti anni

Footnote 1: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

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Footnote 2: bon vivant Diversions of Purley "Your friend Bosville and I have entered into a strict engagement to belong for ever to the established government, to the Established Church, and to the established language of our country, because they are established."

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Footnote 3: "Glenbervie, Glenbervie,

What's good for the scurvy?

For ne'er be your old trade forgot."

Letters "He has been curious, attentive, agreeable; and in every place where he has resided some days, he has left acquaintance who esteem and regret him; I never knew so clear and general an impression."

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Вторник, 7 декабря [1813]

tea

The Bride thirdly 1

un

Talking 2 Simple Story Nature and Art true titles The Giaour Edinburgh Review I Asia English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers America could Slave Trade in Africa Europe Morning Post vertex sublimis 3

Footnote 1: The Beaux' Stratagem "First, it must be a plot, because there's a woman in't; secondly, it must be a plot, because there's a priest in't; thirdly, it must be a plot, because there's French gold in't; and fourthly, it must be a plot, because I don't know what to make on't."

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Footnote 2: "It was vain," said Mrs. Shelley, "for any other woman to attempt to gain attention."

A Simple Story Simple Story Nature and Art Paul Clifford

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Footnote 3: Odes

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Friday, December 10th, 1813

ennuyé

do hearted

Dined 1 princessly

bonhommie c'est un demon she

Saw 2 Harolds Giaours German Oriental

not hers

The Bride witting originality 3

she I

Footnote 1:

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Footnote 2: The Needy Knife-Grinder

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Footnote 3: Eccles

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Sunday, December 12th, 1813

real life existence

but nine fresco

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Monday, December 13th, 1813

Murray poet 1 same Harold and Cookery 2

announced without reading it

3 Holland's 4 Helluo 5

physique

Footnote 1: The Goldfinch's Nest Packwood's Whim; The Goldfinch's Nest, or the Way to get Money and be Happy True Briton "If you wish, Sir, to Shave—nay, pray look not grave,

Since nothing on earth can be worse,

To P—d repair, you're shaved to a hair,

Which I mean to exhibit in verse.

"When in moving the beard—I wish to be heard—

The dull razor occasions a curse,

The strop that I view will its merits renew;

Behold I record it in verse.

"Some in fashion's tontine disperse all their spleen,

And others their destinies curse;

But P—d's fine taste, with his Strops and his Paste,

Which I'll show you in Prose and in Verse.

"I have taken this plan to comment on a man,

Whose merit I'm proud to rehearse;

For a razor and knife he will sharpen for life,

And deserves every praise in my verse.

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Footnote 2: The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy

Domestic Cookery "Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine

The works thou deemest most divine—

The 'Art of Cookery,' and mine,

My Murray."

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Footnote 3: Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England Edinburgh Review Encyclopedia Britannica Edinburgh Review Taste Letters note Diary English Bards, etc.

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Footnote 4: Book-hunter "could direct you to any book in any part of the world, with the precision with which the metropolitan policeman directs you to St. Paul's or Piccadilly. It is of him that the stories are told of answers to inquiries after books, in these terms: 'There is but one copy of that book in the world. It is in the Grand Seignior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book in the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.'"

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Footnote 5: "Burns, in depth of poetical feeling, in strong shrewd sense to balance and regulate this, in the tact to make his poetry tell by connecting it with the stream of public thought and the sentiment of the age, in commanded wildness of fancy and profligacy or recklessness as to moral and occasionally as to religious matters, was much more like Lord Byron than any other person to whom Lord B. says he had been compared.

"A gross blunder of the English public has been talking of Burns as if the character of his poetry ought to be estimated with an eternal recollection that he was a peasant. It would be just as proper to say that Lord Byron ought always to be thought of as a Peer. Rank in life was nothing to either in his true moments. Then, they were both great Poets. Some silly and sickly affectations connected with the accidents of birth and breeding may be observed in both, when they are not under the influence of 'the happier star.' Witness Burns's prate about independence, when he was an exciseman, and Byron's ridiculous pretence of Republicanism, when he never wrote sincerely about the Multitude without expressing or insinuating the very soul of scorn."

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December 14th, 15th, 16th, 1813

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December 17th, 18th, 1813

hommes marquans par excellence best best School for Scandal best Beggar's Opera Critic

felt divorced divorceable like 1 me understood her her mamma other house

have The Devil's Drive Devil's Walk 2

Footnote 1:

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Footnote 2: The Devil's Walk Morning Post The Devil's Thoughts

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January 16th, 1814

Clarissa Harlowe Clarissa one Clarissa eyes

esprit that if bienséance femme

Gibbet 1 sad 2 did odds people opinions worth opinion Conduct that

Footnote 1: Beaux' Stratagem

Gibbet And I can assure you, friend, there's a great deal of address and good manners in robbing a lady: I am most a gentleman that way that ever travelled the road.

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Footnote 2: The Correspondence of Gilbert Wakefield with Mr. Fox Quarterly Review

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18 февраля [1814]

return 1

redde Morning Post 2 3 4

The Corsair con amore existence

Nine o'clock.

have 5 but

Be 6 yet but Excellent 7 8

Midnight.

Brutus 9 bonhommie

The 10

More 11

regnante

"Divesne prisco natus ab Inacho

Nil interest, an pauper et infimâ

De gente, sub dio (sic) moreris,

Victima nil miserantis Orci.

Omnes eodem cogimur," etc.12

who He is

Footnote 1: note Appendix VII

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Footnote 2:

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Footnote 4: "We are informed from very good authority, that as soon as the House of Lords meet again, a Peer of very independent principles and character intends to give notice of a motion occasioned by a late spontaneous avowal of a copy of verses by Lord Byron, addressed to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, in which he has taken the most unwarrantable liberties with her august father's character and conduct: this motion being of a personal nature, it will be necessary to give the noble Satirist some days' notice, that he may prepare himself for his defence against a charge of so aggravated a nature," etc.

Morning Post

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Footnote 5: Macbeth

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Footnote 6: Anatomy of Melancholy

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Footnote 7: Hamlet

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Footnote 8: Ibid

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Footnote 9: "Brutus, thou sleepest, awake."

Julius Cæsar

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Footnote 10: Detached Thoughts note "There is nothing left for Mankind but a Republic, and I think that there are hopes of such. The two Americas (South and North) have it; Spain and Portugal approach it; all thirst for it. Oh Washington!"

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Footnote 11: "Je renonce à vos visites, pourvu que vous acceptiez mes diners, car enfin à quoi servirait il de vivre dans le même tems que vous, si l'on ne vous voyait pas? Dinez chez moi dimanche avec vos amis,—je ne dirai pas vos admirateurs, car je n'ai rencontré que cela de touts parts.

"A dimanche,

"de Staël.

"Mardi.

"Je prends le silence pour oui."

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Footnote 2: Odes et seqq.

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Суббота, 19 февраля [1814]

Just 1

Footnote 1: The Mountaineers Merchant of Venice

Courier "Mr. Kean's attraction is unprecedented in the annals of theatricals—even Cooke's performances are left at an immeasurable distance; his first three nights of Richard produced upwards of £1800, and on repeating that character on Thursday night for the fourthth (sic) time, the receipts were upwards of £700."

"Drury Lane Theatre again overflowed last night, at an early hour. Such is the continued and increasing attraction of that truly great actor Mr. Kean."

"To see Kean act," said Coleridge, "is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning."

"Garrick's nature," writes Leigh Hunt, in the Tatler, July 25, 1831, "displaced Quin's formalism; and in precisely the same way did Kean displace Kemble. ... Everything with Kemble was literally a personation—it was a mask and a sounding-pipe. It was all external and artificial.... Kean's face is full of light and shade, his tones vary, his voice trembles, his eye glistens, sometimes with a withering scorn, sometimes with a tear."

"His 'Richard III.' pleased me, but I was not enthusiastic. His expression of the passions is natural and strong, but I do not like his declamation; his voice, naturally not agreeable, becomes monotonous"

Diary "To my mind he is without grace and without elevation of mind, because he never seems to rise with the poet in those sublime passages which abound in Hamlet"

ibid. On Actors and the Art of Acting

Mirra "To such lengths," says Moore, "did he, at this time, carry his enthusiasm for Kean, that when Miss O'Neil appeared, and, by her matchless representation of feminine tenderness, attracted all eyes and hearts, he was not only a little jealous of her reputation, as interfering with that of his favourite, but, in order to guard himself against the risk of becoming a convert, refused to go to see her act. I endeavoured sometimes to persuade him into witnessing, at least, one of her performances; but his answer was (punning upon Shakspeare's word, 'unanealed'), 'No—I am resolved to continue un-Oneiled.'"

Detached Thoughts "Of actors Cooke was the most natural, Kemble the most supernatural, Kean the medium between the two. But Mrs. Siddons was worth them all put together."

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20 февраля [1814]

bonhommie

if 1

now

Robbers Fine Fiesco 2 Aristodemo 3 best

Answered 4 Safie

Footnote 1: Henry IV.

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Footnote 2: Robbers Fiesco Robbers German Theatre Fiesco

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Footnote 3: Caio Gracco Aristodemo Manfredi

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Footnote 4: Letters note

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Воскресенье, 27 февраля [1814]

loup garou True 1

Man 2

Even 3

times 4 They 5

gin 6

Buonaparte 7 Væ victis!

Footnote 1: "I am myself alone."

Henry VI.

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Footnote 2: Hamlet

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Footnote 3: "This ancient housemaid, of whose gaunt and witch-like appearance it would be impossible to convey any idea but by the pencil, furnished one among the numerous instances of Lord Byron's proneness to attach himself to any thing, however homely, that had once enlisted his good nature in its behalf, and become associated with his thoughts. He first found this old woman at his lodgings in Bennet Street, where, for a whole season, she was the perpetual scarecrow of his visitors. When, next year, he took chambers in Albany, one of the great advantages which his friends looked to in the change was, that they should get rid of this phantom. But, no,—there she was again—he had actually brought her with him from Bennet Street. The following year saw him married, and, with a regular establishment of servants, in Piccadilly; and here,—as Mrs. Mule had not made her appearance to any of the visitors,—it was concluded, rashly, that the witch had vanished. One of those friends, however, who had most fondly indulged in this persuasion, happening to call one day when all the male part of the establishment were abroad, saw, to his dismay, the door opened by the same grim personage, improved considerably in point of babiliments since he last saw her, and keeping pace with the increased scale of her master's household, as a new peruke, and other symptoms of promotion, testified. When asked 'how he came to carry this old woman about with him from place to place,' Lord Byron's only answer was, 'The poor old devil was so kind to me' " (Moore).

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Footnote 4: King Lear

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Footnote 5: "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,

And thou no breath at all?"

King Lear

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Footnote 6: "I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun,

And wish the estate of the world were now undone."

Macbeth

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Воскресенье, 6 марта [1814]

On 1 She Asked Patronage 2 her Afterwards 3

To-day 4 Quarterly Review Correspondence

Asked 5 season

Sent 6 is

Footnote 1: "Even the great luminaries of the law," says Wraxall (Posthumous Memoirs, vol. i. p. 86), "when arrayed in their ermine, bent under his ascendancy, and seemed to be half subdued by his intelligence, or awed by his vehemence, pertinacity, and undaunted character."

Lives of the Chancellors "The monarch's pale face was with blushes suffused,

To observe right and wrong by twelve villains confused,

And, kicking their ——s all round in a fury,

Cried, 'Curs'd be the day I invented a jury!'"

Lives of the Chancellors On the Causes and Consequences of the War with France Journal of Miss Berry "on slips of paper in the midst of all the business which I was engaged in at the time—not at home, but in open court, whilst the causes were trying. When it was not my turn to examine a witness, or to speak to the Jury, I wrote a little bit; and so on by snatches."

Armata Pursuits of Literature "A vain, pert prater, bred in Erskine's school."

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Footnote 2: Patronage Detached Thoughts "Old Edgeworth, the fourth or fifth Mrs. Edgeworth, and the Miss Edgeworth were in London, 1813. Miss Edgeworth liked, Mrs. Edgeworth not disliked, old Edgeworth a bore, the worst of bores—a boisterous Bore. I met them in Society—once at a breakfast of Sir H. D.'s. Old Edgeworth came in late, boasting that he had given 'Dr. Parr a dressing the night before' (no such easy matter by the way). I thought her pleasant. They all abused Anna Seward's memory. When on the road they heard of her brother's—and his son's—death. What was to be done? Their London apparel was all ordered and made! so they sunk his death for the six weeks of their sojourn, and went into mourning on their way back to Ireland. Fact!

"While the Colony were in London, there was a book with a subscription for the 'recall of Mrs. Siddons to the Stage' going about for signatures. Moore moved for a similar subscription for the 'recall of Mr. Edgeworth to Ireland!'

"Sir Humphry Davy told me that the scene of the French Valet and Irish postboy in Ennui was taken from his verbal description to the Edgeworths in Edgeworthtown of a similar fact on the road occurring to himself. So much the better—being life."

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Footnote 6: very fine impression, in a gilt frame

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7 марта [1814]

Rose 1

Heard 2

home

Footnote 1: Letters note "Denman mentioned Lord Byron's affidavit about Lord Portsmouth as a proof of the influence of Hanson over him; Lord B. swearing that Lord P. had 'rather a superior mind than otherwise'"

Memoirs, etc., of Thomas Moore

"I have been acquainted with Mr. Hanson and his family for many years. He is my solicitor. About the beginning of March last he sent to me to ask my opinion on the subject of Lord Portsmouth, who, as I understood from Mr. H., was paying great attention to his eldest daughter. He stated to me that Mr. Newton Fellowes (with whom I have no personal acquaintance) was particularly desirous that Lord Portsmouth should marry some 'elderly woman' of his (Mr. Fellowes's) selection—that the title and family estates might thereby devolve on Mr. F. or his children; but that Lord P. had expressed a dislike to old women, and a desire to choose for himself. I told Mr. Hanson that, if Miss Hanson's affections were not pre-engaged, and Lord Portsmouth appeared attached to her, there could be, in my opinion, no objection to the match. I think, but cannot be positive, that I saw Lord Portsmouth at Mr. Hanson's two or three times previous to the marriage; but I had no conversation with him upon it.

"The night before the ceremony, I received an invitation from Mr. Hanson, requesting me, as a friend of the family, to be present at the marriage, which was to take place next morning. I went next morning to Bloomsbury Square, where I found the parties. Lady Portsmouth, with her brother and sister and another gentleman, went in the carriage to St. George's Church; Lord Portsmouth and myself walked, as the carriage was full, and the distance short. On my way Lord Portsmouth told me that he had been partial to Miss Hanson from her childhood, and that, since she grew up, and more particularly subsequent to the decease of the late Lady P., this partiality had become attachment, and that he thought her calculated to make him an excellent wife. I was present at the ceremony and gave away the bride. Lord Portsmouth's behaviour seemed to me perfectly calm and rational on the occasion. He seemed particularly attentive to the priest, and gave the responses audibly and very distinctly. I remarked this because, in ordinary conversation, his Lordship has a hesitation in his speech. After the ceremony, we returned to Mr. Hanson's, whence, I believe, they went into the country—where I did not accompany them. Since their return I have occasionally seen Lord and Lady Portsmouth in Bloomsbury Square. They appeared very happy. I have never been very intimate with his Lordship, and am therefore unqualified to give a decided opinion of his general conduct. But had I considered him insane, I should have advised Mr. Hanson, when he consulted me on the subject, not to permit the marriage. His preference of a young woman to an old one, and of his own wishes to those of a younger brother, seemed to me neither irrational nor extraordinary."

non compos mentis

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10 марта [1814]

Thor's Day

I

Sherry 1 2 candidate yet old méchanceté

père mère

Mrs 3 What plays hélas not he I don't 4

single Since 5 6

he finita è la musica

Footnote 1: Speedy, Pallas, Impérieuse Tonnant

"My health having suffered by long and close confinement, and my oppressors being resolved to deprive me of property or life, I submit to robbery to protect myself from murder, in the hope that I shall live to bring the delinquents to justice."

Lord Cochrane's Trial before Lord Ellenborough

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Footnote 2: Hours of Idleness Edinburgh Review Notes from a Diary "Your friend, Lord B., is, in my opinion, a singularly agreeable person, which is very rarely the case with eminent men. His independent principles give him a great additional charm."

Detached Thoughts first paragraph note

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Footnote 3: As You Like It début Country Girl Country Wife The Trip to Scarborough The Romp She would and she would not The Irish Widow Twelfth Night As You Like It The School for Scandal English Stage

English Stage Dramatic Essays

Trip to Scarborough Relapse Courier "Mrs. Jordan, the only Miss Hoyden on the stage, supported that character with unabated spirit. In every scene, from her soliloquy on being locked up, which was delivered with extraordinary naïveté, both with reference to her tones, her emphasis, and her action, until the consummation of the piece, the house was shaken by loud and quick-succeeding peals of laughter. The style in which she expressed Hoyden's rustic arithmetic, 'Now, Nursey, if he gives me six hundred pounds a-year to buy pins, what will he give me to buy petticoats?' was uncommonly fine. The frock waving in her hand, the backward bound of two or three steps, the gravity of countenance, induced by a mental glance at the magnitude of the sum, all spoke expectation, delight, and astonishment."

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Footnote 4: Macbeth

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Footnote 5: Richard III

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Footnote 6: Ibid.

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Вторник, 15 марта [1814]

Sharpe 1 tea says this Quarterly 2 N'importe Scott's mine would-bes

The Corsair like

Morning Chronicle

Murray 3 nuts

letter Bella 4

Footnote 1: Table-Talk "Henderson was a truly great actor: his Hamlet and his Falstaff were equally good. He was a very fine reader too: in his comic readings, superior, of course, to Mrs. Siddons: his John Gilpin was marvellous."

Letters and Essays "There has not," says Sharp, "been such a first appearance since yours; yet Nature, though she has been bountiful to him in figure and feature, has denied him a voice.... You have been so long without a 'brother near the throne,' that it will perhaps be serviceable to you to be obliged to bestir yourself in Hamlet, Macbeth, Lord Townley, and Maskwell; but in Lear, Richard, Falstaff, and Benedict, you have nothing to fear, not-withstanding the known fickleness of the public and its love of novelty."

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Footnote 2: Henry IV

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Четверг, 17 марта [1814]

Redde Quarrels of Authors 1 sparring not 2

Footnote 1: Curiosities of Literature Calamities of Authors Quarrels of Authors

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Footnote 2: Henry IV

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Воскресенье, 20 марта [1814]

intended 1 Lady 2 3

Redde 4 Edinburgh In Patronage 5 can this praised me only man

Erskine 6

Mem 7

eaglet

not that hitch He 8

Footnote 1:

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Footnote 4: Opere in russia, Milan De la Littérature du Midi in russia Voyages en Perse

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Footnote 5: "It is no slight consolation to us, while suffering under alternate reproaches for ill-timed severity, and injudicious praise, to reflect that no very mischievous effects have as yet resulted to the literature of the country, from this imputed misbehaviour on our part. Powerful genius, we are persuaded, will not be repressed even by unjust castigation; nor will the most excessive praise that can be lavished by sincere admiration ever abate the efforts that are fitted to attain to excellence. Our alleged severity upon a youthful production has not prevented the noble author from becoming the first poet of his time."

Edinburgh Review

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Footnote 6:

«История Англии» для «Кабинетной циклопедии» Ларднера (1830);

«История революции в Англии» (1834).

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Footnote 8: "Fuseli's picture of Ezzelin Bracciaferro musing over Meduna, slain by him for disloyalty during his absence in the Holy Land, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780. Mr. Knowles, in his Life of the painter, relates the following anecdote: 'Fuseli frequently invented the subject of his pictures without the aid of the poet or historian, as in his composition of Ezzelin, Belisaire, and some others: these he denominated "philosophical ideas intuitive, or sentiment personified." On one occasion he was much amused by the following inquiry of Lord Byron: "I have been looking in vain, Mr. Fuseli, for some months, in the poets and historians of Italy, for the subject of your picture of Ezzelin: pray where is it to be found?" "Only in my brain, my Lord," was the answer: "for I invented it"' (vol. i. p. 403)" (Moore).

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Вторник, 22 марта [1814]

party To-night party 1 thought

only 2 not soul

sa fille

Grey Moniteur sensation only Greek roman Couriers Moniteur 3

The Corsair

Roman Romance Moniteur's The Corsair

Footnote 1:

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Footnote 3: "Londres le 9 Mars... On vient de publier une caricature insolente et grossiere centre le mariage projeté (de la Princesse de Galles) et centre le Prince d'Orange. En commentant cette gravure, le Town Talk a osé avancer que la Princesse Charlotte détestait son époux futur, et que ses véritables affections étaient sacrifices à des vues politiques. Le Lord Byron a fait de ce bruit populaire le sujet d'une romance."

Moniteur

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28 марта [1814]

Albany

This 1 In house un

tête-à-tête ad sudorem debit

Augusta every 2 couplet

Luckily 3 itself

Footnote 1: Memoirs, etc "Lord Byron, as you know, has removed into Albany, and lives in an apartment, I should think thirty by forty feet."

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Footnote 2: Hamlet

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Footnote 3: "Give ample room, and verge enough

The characters of hell to trace."

The Bard

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8 апреля [1814]

On 1 wedged

Footnote 1: Ode to Napoleon "He who of old would rend the oak,

Dream'd not of the rebound;

Chain'd by the trunk he vainly broke—

Alone—how look'd he round?"

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Saturday, April 9th, 1814

What 1 see 2

I I Lodi

that Expende—quot libras in duce summo invenies 3 carats 4

Psha 5 6

Footnote 1: Venice Preserved "What whining monk art thou? What holy cheat?

That would'st encroach upon my credulous ears,

And cant'st thus vilely! Hence! I know thee not!"

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Footnote 2: "I see, men's judgements are a parcel of their fortunes."

Antony and Cleopatra

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Footnote 3: "Expende Hannibalem: quot libras in duce summo

Invenies?"

Sat "Produce the urn that Hannibal contains,

And weigh the mighty dust which yet remains:

And is this all?"

Juvenal

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Footnote 4: "In the Statistical Account of Scotland, I find that Sir John Paterson had the curiosity to collect, and weigh, the ashes of a person discovered a few years since in the parish of Eccles. Wonderful to relate, he found the whole did not exceed in weight one ounce and a half! And is this all!"

Juvenal, ut supra

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Footnote 5: Hamlet

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Footnote 6: Macbeth "Doctor, the thanes fly from me!"

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10 апреля [1814]

her Per esempio To-day 1