"Few people understood Byron; but I know that he had naturally a kind and feeling heart, and that there was not a single spark of malice in his composition."
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heard person yourself Connections ample respect
Law
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60 — Дж. Риджу
Morning Herald Morning Herald premature
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Antijacobin
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61 — Джону М. Б. Пиготу
sundry prose verse Juvenilia copy That unlucky 1 ladies in years profligate sinner young Moore 2 severe vastly
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Footnote 2: Anacreon The Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little Odes, Epistles, and other Poems "So heartily," said Rogers (Table-Talk, etc., pp. 281, 282), "has Moore repented of having published Little's Poems, that I have seen him shed tears — tears of deep contrition — when we were talking of them. Young ladies read his Lalla Rookh without being aware (I presume) of the grossness of The Veiled Prophet. These lines by Mr. Sneyd are amusing enough —
"'Lalla Rookh
Is a naughty book
By Tommy Moore,
Who has written four,
Each warmer
Than the former.
So the most recent
Is the least decent.'"
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62 — Капитану Джону Ликрофту 1
men who
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63 — Капитану Джону Ликрофту
meddling world
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agreeable unfeeling personal disagreeable pleasant
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65 — Графу Клэр 1
sins You 2 old friends en cavalier that eased conscience even unintentionally
I transporting 3 4
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Footnote 1: Life "annihilated for a moment," says Byron (see Life, p. 540; Detached Thoughts, November 5, 1821), "all the years between the present time and the days of Harrow. We were but five minutes together, and on the public road; but I hardly recollect an hour of my existence which could be weighed against them. Of all I have ever known, he has always been the least altered in everything from the excellent qualities and kind affections which attached me to him so strongly at school. I should hardly have thought it possible for society (or the world, as it is called) to leave a being with so little of the leaven of bad passions. I do not speak from personal experience only, but from all I have ever heard of him from others, during absence and distance."
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Footnote 4: Life "Tell Lord Byron that, if any accident should retard his return, his mother desires he will write to her, as she shall be miserable if he does not arrive the day he fixes. Mr. W. B. has written a card to Mrs. H. to offer for the character of 'Henry Woodville,' — Mr. and Mrs. — — not approving of their son's taking a part in the play: but I believe he will persist in it. Mr. G. W. says, that sooner than the party should be disappointed, he will take any part, — sing — dance — in short, do any thing to oblige. Till Lord Byron returns, nothing can be done; and positively he must not be later than Tuesday or Wednesday."
«Колесо фортуны» Камберленда и
«Флюгер» Аллингема.
1.
Penruddock Lord Byron
Sir David Daw Mr. C. Becher
Woodville Captain Lightfoot
Sydenham Mr. Pigot
Henry Woodville Mr. H. Houson
Mrs. Woodville Miss Bristoe
Emily Tempest Miss J. Leacroft
Dame Dunckley Miss Leacroft
Weazel Mr. G. Wylde
Jenkins Mr. G. Heathcote
2.
Tristram Fickle Lord Byron
Old Fickle Mr. Pigot
Briefwit Captain Lightfoot
Sneer Mr. R. Leacroft
Variella Miss Bristoe
Ready Miss Leacroft
Gardener Mr. C. Becher
Barber Mr. G. Wylde
The Wheel of Fortune Poems "Tempest becalmed forgets his blust'ring rage,
He calls Dame Dunckley 'sister' off the stage."
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66 — Миссис Хэнсон
Governor I best Terms he I Squabbles this world finally make peace salutary aforesaid
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Garrison
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67 — Уильяму Бэнксу 1
next cloyed feelings best poems minute verbal poësies érotiques deities
The 2 long sitting caricatura your never was mine The collegiate 3 I we Gil Blas Archbishop 4 verdict Libellus million On Mackenzie Man of Feeling 5 his yours
Juvenilia Cam tears caustic sweets of adulation that no poetry
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Footnote 1: Travels Narrative Times A Country Clergyman's Trip to Cambridge "A letter — and free — bring it here:
I have no correspondent who franks.
No! Yes! Can it be? Why, my dear,
'Tis our glorious, our Protestant Bankes.
'Dear Sir as I know your desire
That the Church should receive due protection,
I humbly presume to require
Your aid at the Cambridge election,'"etc., etc.
roasting Conversations
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Footnote 4: Gil Blas "Adieu, monsieur Gil Blas; Je vous souhaite toutes sortes de prosperités, avec un peu plus de goût."
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Footnote 5: Man of Feeling The Man of Feeling The Man of Honour Julia de Roubigne Mirror Lounger Transactions
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68 — Уильяму Бэнксу 1
Since 2 voluminous Life
sundry palpitations
[letter incomplete]
Footnote 1: Poems on Various Occasions
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Footnote 2: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Hon. Henry Home of Kames Elements of General History Essay on the Principles of Translation Universal History
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69 — — Фолкнеру 1
Juvenilia not
social bays
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Accession Dignity profit
You 1 secondary Statement Wishes official personal animosity Florid Declamations parliamentary Scots Cambridge marvel dissipated Poet orator Minority ancients moderns Sheridan & Fox these great Names
Charms Place abhor completely done Wine Women dished humble Servant Sou had over Crater Lease Infancy very thin Fact going Bet seven Ribs half a yard
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Courage rhymes
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P.S much hot 1
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1806 January 4 Lord Byron (boots, no hat) 13 st. 12 lbs.
1807 July 8 Lord Byron (shoes) 10 st. 13 lbs.
1807 July 23 Lord Byron (shoes) 11 st. 0 lbs.
1807 August 13 Lord Byron (shoes) 10 st. 11 1/2 lbs.
1808 May 27 Lord Byron (shoes) 11 st. 1 lb.
1809 June 10 Lord Byron (shoes) 11 st. 5 3/4 lbs.
1811 July 15 Lord Byron (shoes) 9 st. 11 1/2 lbs.
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72 — Джону Хэнсону
entre nous this Letter Business formalities official communication House
I £60 1 Steeds Lawyer done
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Footnote 1: "Lord Byron," she writes to Hanson (March 19, 1807), "has now been with me seven months, with two Men Servants, for which I have never received one farthing, as he requires the five hundred a year for himself. Therefore it is impossible I can keep him and them out of my small income of four hundred a year, — two in Scotland [Mrs. Gordon of Gight (see Chapter I p. 4) was dead], and the pension is now reduced to two hundred a year. But if the "Court allows the additional two hundred, I shall be perfectly satisfied.
"I do not know what to say about Byron's returning to Cambridge. When he was there, I believe he did nothing but drink, gamble, and spend money."
"Byron from their last letter gave up all hopes of getting the money, and behaved very well on the occasion, and proposed selling his Horses and plans of Œconomy that I much fear will be laid aside if the Money is procured. My only motive for wishing it was to keep him clear of the Jews; but at present he does not seem at all disposed to have anything to do with them, even if he is disappointed in this resource. I wish to act for the best: but God knows what is for the best."
March 6 April 26
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Savage immortal thorough-bred bull-dog saw gravity grievously discomposed costs expenses My all long speech 1 deputize ambassador Pope whole Bull
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Better 1 Oratorios Concerts Fair thinner taller name visage Even my Cornelian 2 vis-à-vis Poetics better worse thinner I cursed detestable abhorred scandal 3 Pit of Acheron sandals Seriously emptiness
set vanished musical protégé Patron thin
invalid The polite askance lampoons 4
Menagerie on off growl Sad 5 oil hard fire Messiah woeful forget
Footnote 1: Better Late than Never Life
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Footnote 2: my Cornelian Poems "Cambridge, Oct. 28, 1811.
Dear Madam, — I am about to write to you on a silly subject, and yet I cannot well do otherwise. You may remember a cornelian, which some years ago I consigned to Miss Pigot, indeed gave to her, and now I am going to make the most selfish and rude of requests. The person who gave it to me, when I was very young, is dead, and though a long time has elapsed since we met, as it was the only memorial I possessed of that person (in whom I was very much interested), it has acquired a value by this event I could have wished it never to have borne in my eyes. If, therefore, Miss Pigot should have preserved it, I must, under these circumstances, beg her to excuse my requesting it to be transmitted to me at No. 8, St. James's Street, London, and I will replace it by something she may remember me by equally well. As she was always so kind as to feel interested in the fate of him that formed the subject of our conversation, you may tell her that the giver of that cornelian died in May last of a consumption, at the age of twenty-one, making the sixth, within four months, of friends and relatives that I have lost between May and the end of August.
"Believe me, dear Madam, yours very sincerely,
"Byron.
"P.S. — I go to London to-morrow."
not
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75 — Элизабет Бриджет Пигот
another year alive stay head tears eyes Cornelian Sabbath sojourn
protégé almost constant voice countenance manners mercantile house town partner latter In Lady E. Butler Miss Ponsonby 1 Pylades Orestes Nisus Euryalus Jonathan David me one like
The 2 splendid music accidency blue spectators drunk sober Cantabs we mean monotony of endless variety
Saw 3 blushed not more modesty protégé I hate Southwell
Footnote 1: "If," writes Mrs. Piozzi, from Brynbella, July 9, 1796, "Mr. Bunbury's Little Gray Man is printed, do send it hither; the ladies at Llangollen are dying for it. They like those old Scandinavian tales and the imitations of them exceedingly; and tell me about the prince and princess of this loyal country, one province of which alone had disgraced itself"
Life and Writings of Mrs. Piozzi Memoirs "The dear inseparable inimitables, Lady Butler and Miss Ponsonby, were in the boxes here on Friday. They came twelve miles from Llangollen, and returned, as they never sleep from home. Oh, such curiosities! I was nearly convulsed.... As they are seated, there is not one point to distinguish them from men; the dressing and powdering of the hair; their well-starched neckcloths; the upper part of their habits, which they always wear, even at a dinner-party, made precisely like men's coats; and regular black beaver men's hats. They looked exactly like two respectable superannuated old clergymen.... I was highly flattered, as they never were in the theatre before."
"It is very singular," writes John Murray, August 24, 1829, to his son (Memoir of John Murray, vol. ii. p. 304),
"that the ladies, intending to retire from the world, absolutely brought all the world to visit them, for after a few years of seclusion their strange story was the universal subject of conversation, and there has been no person of rank, talent, and importance in any way who did not procure introductions to them."
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Footnote 2: Life of Lord John Russell
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76 — Элизабет Бриджет Пигот
knowing nought about it month irradiate reside cut minute inspection she
What 1 2
swallowed Count Holy Roman Empire
insulated silly expressions our vocabulary
pared off slim gentlemen fat decrease violent phenomenon evening squeezes
P.S 3 Butler bears no brother near the throne" — if so sceptre in his hands
Footnote 1: Hours of Idleness note
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Footnote 2: Monthly Literary Recreations Hours of Idleness Poems Appendix I Poems "July 21, 1807.
Sir, — I have sent according to my promise some Stanzas for Literary Recreations. The insertion I leave to the option of the Editors. They have never appeared before. I should wish to know whether they are admitted or not, and when the work will appear, as I am desirous of a copy.
Etc., etc.,
Byron.
P.S. — Send your answer when convenient."
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Footnote 3: "My Dear Lord, — Your letter of yesterday found me an invalid, and unable to do justice to your poems by a dilligent [sic] perusal of them. In the meantime I take the first occasion to thank you for sending them to me, and to express a sincere satisfaction in finding you employ your leisure in such occupations. Be not disconcerted if the reception of your works should not be that you may have a right to look for from the public. Persevere, whatever that reception may be, and tho' the Public maybe found very fastidious, ... you will stand better with the world than others who only pursue their studies in Bond St. or at Tatershall's.
Believe me to be, yours most sincerely,
Carlisle.
July 8th, 1807."
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Treasurer free funds
I 1 real personage? Wilkins, Tomkyns, Simkins, Wiggins, Spriggins, Jiggins Higgins? James Johnson respectable Endorsements Quintessence
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formal legal
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reviewers duchesses rustic readers I Literary Recreations 1 hardship him myself clever relish Literary Recreations My 2 Poetical Highness whose taste I shall not dispute blessed dark rolling winds
third own name say nothing gratify public gentle By 3 egotism! laurels cooling acids modesty
rational bevy dolls
this circle sin
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Footnote 2: née Recollections of Samuel Rogers Posthumous Memoirs Memoirs of William Beckford
"Not Gordon's broad and brawny Grace,
The last new Woman in the Place
With more contempt could blast."
Pandolfo Attonito.
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Footnote 3: Trip to Redcar and Coatham "I took up my pen at the advanced age of fifty-six ... I drove the quill thirty years, during which time I wrote and published thirty books."
The Battle of Bosworth Field
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On 1 tandem shelties vehicular conveyances Hecla mamma Discovery maternal warwhoop
Last 2 squall "The Highland Harp" picturesque conclude fire Smut!
"Bear it, ye breezes, on your balmy wings."
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Footnote 1: Life "How can you ask if Lord B. is going to visit the Highlands in the summer? Why, don't you know that he never knows his own mind for ten minutes together? I tell him he is as fickle as the winds, and as uncertain as the waves."
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Footnote 2: "The first time I saw Lord Byron," says Leigh Hunt (Lord Byron and his Contemporaries, p. 1), "he was rehearsing the part of Leander, under the auspices of Mr. Jackson the prize-fighter. It was in the river Thames, before he went to Greece. I had been bathing, and was standing on the floating machine adjusting my clothes, when I noticed a respectable-looking manly person who was eyeing something at a distance. This was Mr. Jackson waiting for his pupil. The latter was swimming with somebody for a wager."
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solitary Guinea, two bad sixpences all cash
Byron
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81 — Элизабет Бриджет Пигот
thin suffocate love, enemies verses
Next entre nous only sea 1 Tartar
I tame bear 2 sit for a fellowship. spice
I 3 Apropos Critical Review 4 5 two lines cut up my modesty
Footnote 1: Centaur Curieux Dame Ernouf Tartar
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Footnote 4: "'Haply thy sun, emerging, yet may shine,
Thee to irradiate with meridian ray.'"
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82 — Дж. Риджу
As 1
Stanzas on a view of Harrow.
To a Quaker.
The First Kiss of Love.
College Examinations.
Lines to the Rev. J. T. Becher.
Errata Second Edition
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en famille Field Sports Cash Reserve 1
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84 — Джону Мюррею 1
2 Downing won William 3 my So then set 4 It reside 5 white hat grey grey him roasting
papers as wrote We 6 Monks' We skull-cup 7 window
He 8 "Mr. Matthews, I recommend to your attention not to damage any of the moveables, for Lord Byron, Sir, is a young man of tumultuous passions."
see him see themselves tumultuous passions
"Sir," answered Matthews, "it may be all very well for you, who have a great many silk stockings, to dirty other people's; but to me, who have only this one pair, which I have put on in honour of the Abbot here, no apology can compensate for such carelessness; besides, the expense of washing."
Miscellany Miss-sell-any Walsh Hobhouse 9 Walsh 10 knowing Walsh 11 walk together
effort labour too high 12 "the Dean had lived,
And our prediction proved a lie."
Pope's
he King's College His 13 14
"Come round," said Matthews, "come round."
"Why should I come round?" said the other; "you have only to turn your head — I am close by you."
"That is exactly what I cannot do," said Matthews; "don't you see the state I am in?"
"Now, sir," said he to Hobhouse afterwards, "this I call courteous in the Abbot — another man would never have thought that I might do better with half a guinea than throw it to a door-keeper; — but here is a man not only asks me to dinner, but gives me a ticket for the theatre."