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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present
Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's Poetical Works is based on that of 'The Works of Lord Byron', in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. T
- 738 LXXI.(In this Edition Objectionable Pieces have been excluded.)/ The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ With Life./ Eight engravings on Steel./ Edinburgh:/ Gall and Inglis, 6 George Street;/ London: Houlston and Wright./ [1857.] [8._Collation_-- Pp. xix. +
- 737 1-270. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 270.The Front. ["Lord Byron at the age of 19"] is engr. by E. Finden from the painting by G. Sanders. The ill.u.s.trated t.i.tle-page [The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ With Notes and Ill.u.s.trations./ Vol.
- 736 _Collation_-- Pp. II + cxxii + 954--Half-t.i.tle (R. _Printed by Casimir, 12, Rue de la Vieille-Monnaie_); t.i.tle, one leaf; Publisher's Advt., pp. 1-6; Contents, pp. 7-11; _The Life of Lord Byron_. By John Galt, Esq., pp.i.-cxxii.; Text, pp. 1-941; Ind
- 735 _The Complete Works_, etc., including his suppressed poems and others never before published. In Four Volumes. Paris, Baudry. 1832. [8.[_Katalog der Bucher_, von Eduard Grisebach, 1894, p. 127.]_Note_.--The Front. is "Lord Byron," from a portrait by Hop
- 734 XLVI.The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron:/ With/ His Letters and Journals,/ And His Life,/ By Thomas Moore, Esq./ In Fourteen Volumes./ Vol. I. [Vol. II., etc.] London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 183./ [8._Collation_-- Vol. I.: pp. xv. + 359--t.i.tle (R. Imp
- 733 The Frontispiece, "Lord Byron," is engraved by E. Finden from a portrait by T. Phillips, R.A.Vol. II.: pp. iv. + 424--t.i.tle (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Cont. of Vol.II., pp. iii., iv.; Text, pp. 1-383. The Imprint (_b_) is at the foot of p. 424.Vol. II
- 732 The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ Including/ The Suppressed Poems./ Complete in One Volume./ Paris:/ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1828./ 8._Collation_-- Pp. xl. + 718._Note_.--This edition closely corresponds with that issued by A.
- 731 [Kolbing.]XXIX._The Works of Lord Byron_. Complete in Thirty-two Volumes. Published by the Brothers Schumann, Zwickau. 1825-1827. [16._Note_.--Vol. x.x.xIII. was issued in 1838. [Kayser, 1841.]x.x.x._The Works of Lord Byron_, comprising the suppressed poe
- 730 [i.]-xiii.; Second Half-t.i.tle; Text, pp. 2-154, etc._Note_.--The Imprint (_T.C. Hansard/ Paternoster-Row_/) is at the foot of the last page (p. 62). Four pages (_n.p._) of publishers' list of Sherwood, Jones & Co., etc., dated London, June, 1824, are b
- 729 _Note_.--The Poems (fifty-seven in all) include the _Ode to Venice_.XVIII.Lord Byron's/ Works./ Volume the First./ [Volume the Second, etc.]Containing:/ The Bride of Abydos--The Corsair--Lara--/Parisina, etc./ Paris/ Sold by Francois Louis,/ At his Frenc
- 728 [Kayser, _Index Verborum_. 1834. See, too, _Jahrbucher der Literatur_.Vienna, 1821. Vol. xv. pp. 105-145.]XII.The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.] London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1819./ [8._Collation_-- Vol. I.: pp. xv. + 479--t
- 727 The/ Works/ of The/ Right Hon. Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II.] London:/ Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1815/ [8._Contents_-- Vol. I.: The t.i.tle, as above, is prefixed to _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, Cantos I., II. (Fourt
- 726 _Note_ (Vol. I.).--On fly-leaf: "To the Rt. Honourable Lord Byron from his obt. servant Geo Ticknor, June 20. 1815.""This book was given to me by Lord Byron, April 20, 1816, on his leaving England. Scrope Davies."???: ?O: [Greek: APO: Io:]?ef. ?. [Gre
- 725 ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.[133]1.'T IS time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move: Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me love!2.My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of Love are gone;
- 724 IMPROMPTU.[130]BENEATH Blessington's eyes The reclaimed Paradise Should be free as the former from evil; But if the new Eve For an Apple should grieve, What mortal would not play the Devil?_April, 1823._ [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii
- 723 [126] [Napoleon bequeathed to Lady Holland a snuff-box which had been given to him by the Pope for his clemency in sparing Rome. Lord Carlisle wrote eight (not seven) stanzas, urging her, as Byron told Medwin, to decline the gift, "for fear that horror a
- 722 Saucy Tom!"CAMPBELL."WHY, how now, Billy Bowles?Sure the priest is maudlin!(_To the public_) How can you, d--n your souls!Listen to his twaddling?_Billy Bowles_!"_February 22, 1821._ [First published, _The Liberal_, 1823, No. II. p. 398.]FOOTNOTES: [12
- 721 THE CHARITY BALL.[118]WHAT matter the pangs of a husband and father, If his sorrows in exile be great or be small, So the Pharisee's glories around her she gather, And the saint patronises her "Charity Ball!"What matters--a heart which, though faulty,
- 720 1.Why were you put in Lob's pond, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_) For telling folks to pull the House By the ears into the Lobby O!2.Who are your grand Reformers now, My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_) There's me and BURDETT,--gentlemen, And Blackguards HUNT and COBBY O
- 719 EPIGRAM.IN digging up your bones, Tom Paine, Will. Cobbett[112] has done well: You visit him on Earth again, He'll visit you in h.e.l.l.or-- You come to him on Earth again He'll go with you to h.e.l.l!_January_ 2, 1820.[First published, _Letters and Jou
- 718 4.Among my researches for EASE I went where one's certain to find her: The first thing by her throne that one sees Is Gally i.o. the Grinder.Gally i.o. i.o., etc.5.Away with old Homer the blind-- I'll show you a poet that's blinder: You may see him whe
- 717 6.And Heaven forbid I should conclude, Without "the Board of Longitude,"[102]Although this narrow paper would, My Murray.Venice, _April 11_, 1818.[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 171.]FOOTNOTES: [99] [William Strahan (1715-1785) publi
- 716 Who's so d.a.m.nably bit With fas.h.i.+on and Wit, That he crawls on the surface like Vermin, But an Insect in both,-- By his Intellect's growth, Of what size you may quickly determine.[94]Venice, _January_ 8, 1818.[First published, _Letters and Journal
- 715 The _Quarterly_--Ah, Sir, if you Had but the Genius to review!-- A smart Critique upon St. Helena, Or if you only would but tell in a 50 Short compa.s.s what--but to resume; As I was saying, Sir, the Room-- The Room's so full of wits and bards, Crabbes,
- 714 [66] [_Margaret of Anjou_, by Margaret Holford, 1816.][67] [_Ilderim, a Syrian Tale_, by H. Gaily Knight, 1816.]VERSICLES.I READ the "Christabel;"[68]Very well: I read the "Missionary;"[69]Pretty--very: I tried at "Ilderim;"Ahem!I read a sheet of "
- 713 ON NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA.[63]ONCE fairly set out on his party of pleasure, Taking towns at his liking, and crowns at his leisure, From Elba to Lyons and Paris he goes, Making _b.a.l.l.s for_ the ladies, and _bows to_ his foes._March 27, 1815._ [Fir
- 712 ????? a?at? pef??a???? [Greek: Pel?n ai(/mati pephyramhenon]"Clay kneaded with blood."Suetonius, in _Tiberium_, cap. 57.]ICH DIEN.FROM this emblem what variance your motto evinces, For the _Man_ is his country's--the Arms are the Prince's!?1814.[From
- 711 Compare Moore's "Epigram:" "'I want the Court Guide,' said my lady, 'to look If the House, Seymour Place, be at 30 or 20,'" etc.--_Poetical Works_, 1850, p. 165.][36] [The allusion may be to a case which was before the courts, the Attorney-Genera
- 710 'T is a new barouche, and an ancient peer!"[40]12.So he sat him on his box again, And bade him have no fear, But be true to his club, and staunch to his rein, His brothel and his beer; 100 "Next to seeing a Lord at the Council board, I would rather see
- 709 _Select Poems_, 1821, p. 90.[See "Fragments of Criticism," _Works of Charles Lamb_, 1903, iii. 284.][31] [_Hermilda in Palestine_ was published in 1812, in quarto, and twice reissued in 1813, as part of _Poems on Various Occasions_ (8vo).The Lines upon
- 708 FOOTNOTES: [24] [Caroline Rosalie Adelaide St. Jules (1786-1862) married, in 1809, the Hon. George Lamb (see _English Bards, etc_., line 55, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 300, note 1), fourth son of the first Viscount Melbourne.][LA REVANCHE.]1.There is no m
- 707 For character--he did not lack it; And if he did, 'twere shame to "Black-it."Malta, _May_ 16, 1811.[First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1832, ix. 10.]FOOTNOTES: [17] [For Joseph Blacket (1786-1810), see _Letters_, 1898, i. 314, _note_ 2; see, too,
- 706 O THOU yclep'd by vulgar sons of Men Cam Hobhouse![8] but by wags Byzantian Ben!Twin sacred t.i.tles, which combined appear To grace thy volume's front, and gild its rear, Since now thou put'st thyself and work to Sea And leav'st all Greece to _Fletch
- 705 The Works of Lord Byron.Vol. 7.by George Gordon Byron.PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH VOLUME.Of the seventy-three "Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit," which are printed at the commencement of this volume, forty-five were included in Murray's one-volume edition of 183
- 704 FOOTNOTES: {608}[813] [May 8, 1823.--_MS_. More than one "Seventeenth Canto," or so-called continuation of _Don Juan_, has been published. Some of these "Sequels" pretend to be genuine, while others are undisguisedly imitations or parodies. For an acc
- 703 [806]["d.a.m.n with faint praise, a.s.sent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer."Pope _on Addison, Prologue to the Satires_, lines 201, 202.]{604}[807] [Bion, _Epitaphium Adonidis_, line 28.][808] [" ... genetrix hominum, divo
- 702 {577}[780] [Compare Mariner's description of the cave in Hoonga Island (_Poetical Works_, 1901, v. 629, note 1).]{578}[781] ["The place," wrote Byron to Moore, August 13, 1814, "is worth seeing as a ruin, and I can a.s.sure you there _was_ some fun th
- 701 And full of sentiments, sublime as billows Heaving between this World and Worlds beyond, Don Juan, when the midnight hour of pillows Arrived, retired to his; but to despond Rather than rest. Instead of poppies, willows Waved o'er his couch; he meditated,
- 700 Lx.x.xIX.This was no bad mistake, as it occurred, The supplicator being an amateur; But others, who were left with scarce a third, Were angry--as they well might, to be sure, They wondered how a young man so absurd Lord Henry at his table should endure; A
- 699 There was much bustle too, and preparation Below stairs on the score of second courses; Because, as suits their rank and situation, Those who in counties have great land resources Have "public days," when all men may carouse, Though not exactly what's
- 698 XLVIII.Aurora--since we are touching upon taste, Which now-a-days is the thermometer By whose degrees all characters are cla.s.sed-- Was more Shakespearian, if I do not err.The worlds beyond this World's perplexing waste Had more of her existence, for in
- 697 Lord Henry, who had now discussed his chocolate, Also the m.u.f.fin whereof he complained, Said, Juan had not got his usual look elate, At which he marvelled, since it had not rained; Then asked her Grace what news were of the Duke of late?_Her_ Grace rep
- 696 And Juan, on retiring for the night, Felt restless, and perplexed, and compromised: He thought Aurora Raby's eyes more bright Than Adeline (such is advice) advised; If he had known exactly his own plight, He probably would have philosophised: A great res
- 695 [According to Pliny (_Nat, Hist._, lib. xv. cap. xxv. ed. 1593, ii.131), there were no cherry trees in Italy until L. Lucullus brought them home with him from Pontus after the Mithridatic War (B.C. 74), and it was not for another hundred and twenty years
- 694 [nk] _Old Skeleton with ages for your booty_.--[MS. erased.]{547}[735] ["He turned himself into all manner of forms with more ease than the chameleon changes his colour.... Thus at Sparta he was all for exercise, frugal in his diet, and severe in his man
- 693 Lx.x.xIII.Aurora, who in her indifference Confounded him in common with the crowd Of flatterers, though she deemed he had more sense Than whispering foplings, or than witlings loud-- Commenced[759] (from such slight things will great commence) To feel tha
- 692 There was a goodly "soupe a la _bonne femme_"[754]Though G.o.d knows whence it came from; there was, too, A turbot for relief of those who cram, Relieved with "dindon a la Perigeux;"There also was----the sinner that I am!How shall I get this gourmand
- 691 Love's riotous, but Marriage should have quiet, And being consumptive, live on a milk diet.XLII.And then there was the Miss Audacia Shoestring, A das.h.i.+ng _demoiselle_ of good estate, Whose heart was fixed upon a star or blue string; But whether Engli
- 690 XXII.A modest hope--but Modesty's my forte, And Pride my feeble:[741]--let us ramble on.I meant to make this poem very short, But now I can't tell where it may not run.[no]No doubt, if I had wished to pay my court To critics, or to hail the _setting_ su
- 689 But, more or less, the whole's a Syncope Or a _Singultus_--emblems of Emotion, The grand Ant.i.thesis to great _Ennui_, Wherewith we break our bubbles on the Ocean-- That Watery Outline of Eternity, Or miniature, at least, as is my notion-- Which ministe
- 688 _And what not--though he had ridden like a Centaur_ _When called next day declined the same adventure_.--[MS.][712] [Mr. W. Ernst, in his _Memoirs of the Life of Lord Chesterfield_, 1893 (p. 425, note 2), quotes these lines in connection with a comparison
- 687 XCII.She was, or thought she was, his friend--and this Without the farce of Friends.h.i.+p, or romance Of Platonism, which leads so oft amiss Ladies who have studied Friends.h.i.+p but in France Or Germany, where people _purely_ kiss.[nc]To thus much Adel
- 686 LXXII.Still there was something wanting, as I've said-- That undefinable "_Je ne scais quoi_"Which, for what I know, may of yore have led To Homer's Iliad, since it drew to Troy The Greek Eve, Helen, from the Spartan's bed; Though on the whole, no do
- 685 Uttered by friends, those prophets of the _past_, Who, 'stead of saying what you _now_ should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last,[my]And solace your slight lapse 'gainst _bonos mores_, With a long memorandum of old stories.LI.The Lady Adel
- 684 We left our heroes and our heroines In that fair clime which don't depend on climate, Quite independent of the Zodiac's signs, Though certainly more difficult to rhyme at, Because the Sun, and stars, and aught that s.h.i.+nes, Mountains, and all we can
- 683 IX.The World is all before me[707]--or behind; For I have seen a portion of that same, And quite enough for me to keep in mind;-- Of pa.s.sions, too, I have proved enough to blame, To the great pleasure of our friends, Mankind, Who like to mix some slight
- 682 [690] [Perhaps Sir James Mackintosh--a frequent guest at Holland House.]{508}[691] [Possibly Colonel (afterwards Sir James) Macdonell [d. 1857], "a man of colossal stature," who occupied and defended the Chateau of Hougoumont on the night before the bat
- 681 Surrounding the quadrangle are two-storied cloisters, and in the centre a "Gothic fountain" (stanza lxv. line 1) of composite workmans.h.i.+p. The upper portion of the stonework is hexagonal, and is ornamented with a double row of gargoyles (all "monst
- 680 Then there were billiards; cards, too, but _no_ dice;-- Save in the clubs no man of honour plays;-- Boats when 't was water, skating when 't was ice, And the hard frost destroyed the scenting days: And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Wa
- 679 Lx.x.xVII.There was d.i.c.k Dubious,[690] the metaphysician, Who loved philosophy and a good dinner; Angle, the _soi-disant_ mathematician; Sir Henry Silvercup, the great race-winner.There was the Reverend Rodomont Precisian, Who did not hate so much the
- 678 Steel Barons, molten the next generation To silken rows of gay and gartered Earls, Glanced from the walls in goodly preservation: And Lady Marys blooming into girls, With fair long locks, had also kept their station: And Countesses mature in robes and pea
- 677 'T is granted; and the valet mounts the d.i.c.key-- That gentleman of Lords and Gentlemen; Also my Lady's gentlewoman, tricky, Tricked out, but modest more than poet's pen Can paint,--_"Cosi viaggino i Ricchi!"_[666](Excuse a foreign slipslop now and
- 676 'T is true, I might have chosen Piccadilly,[663]A place where peccadillos are unknown; But I have motives, whether wise or silly, For letting that pure sanctuary alone.Therefore I name not square, street, place, until I Find one where nothing naughty can
- 675 The landed and the monied speculation?The joys of mutual hate to keep them warm, Instead of Love, that mere hallucination?Now Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.VII.Rough Johnson, the great moralist, profe
- 674 [635] ["Enfin partout la bonne societe regle tout."--Voltaire.]{471}[636] ["This game originated, I believe, in Germany.... It is called the game of the _goose_, because at every fourth and fifth compartment of the table in succession a _goose_ is depi
- 673 But what, and where, with whom, and when, and why, Is not to be put hastily together; And as my object is Morality (Whatever people say), I don't know whether I'll leave a single reader's eyelid dry, But harrow up his feelings till they wither, And hew
- 672 Then there's the vulgar trick of those d----d damages!A verdict--grievous foe to those who cause it!-- Forms a sad climax to romantic homages; Besides those soothing speeches of the pleaders, And evidences which regale all readers.LXVI.But they who blund
- 671 XLIV.Moreover I've remarked (and I was once A slight observer in a modest way), And so may every one except a dunce, That ladies in their youth a little gay, Besides their knowledge of the World, and sense Of the sad consequence of going astray, Are wise
- 670 XXIII.And now to business.--O my gentle Juan!Thou art in London--in that pleasant place, Where every kind of mischief's daily brewing, Which can await warm Youth in its wild race.'T is true, that thy career is not a new one; Thou art no novice in the he
- 669 III.O Gold! Why call we misers miserable?[614]Theirs is the pleasure that can never pall; Theirs is the best bower anchor, the chain cable Which holds fast other pleasures great and small.Ye who but see the saving man at table, And scorn his temperate boa
- 668 {445}[589] [Stanza lviii. was first published in 1837. The reference is to Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868). Byron was under the impression that Milman had influenced Murray against continuing the publication of _Don Juan_. Added to this surmise, was the mis
- 667 [568] [According to the _Vocabulary of the Flash Language_, compiled by James Hardy Vaux, in 1812, and published at the end of his Memoirs, 1819, ii. 149-227, a kiddy, or "flash-kiddy," is a thief of the lower orders, who, when he is _breeched_ by a cou
- 666 LXXVII.Where is Napoleon the Grand? G.o.d knows!Where little Castlereagh? The devil can tell!Where Grattan, Curran, Sheridan--all those Who bound the Bar or Senate in their spell?Where is the unhappy Queen, with all her woes?And where the Daughter, whom t
- 665 Who shoes the glorious animal with stilts, A modern Ancient Pistol--"by these hilts!"[588]LVIII.Still he excels that artificial hard Labourer in the same vineyard, though the vine Yields him but vinegar for his reward.-- That neutralised dull Dorus of t
- 664 And, after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade; and I defy[kr]Historians--heroes--lawyers--priests, to put A fact without some leaven of a lie.The very shadow of true Truth would shut Up annals--revelations--poesy, And prophecy--except
- 663 Oh! for a gla.s.s of _max_![567] We've missed our booty; Let me die where I am!" And as the fuel Of Life shrunk in his heart, and thick and sooty The drops fell from his death-wound, and he drew ill His breath,--he from his swelling throat untied A kerc
- 662 [556] [See _The Prince_ (_Il Principe_), chap. xvii., by Niccol Machiavelli, translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1897, p. 121: "But above all [a Prince] must abstain from the property of others. For men will sooner forget the death of their father than th
- 661 [See for ill.u.s.tration of the Brig o' Balgownie, with its single Gothic arch, _Letters_, 1901 [L.P.], v. 406. ]{406}[537]["Land of brown heath and s.h.a.ggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood," etc._Lay of the Last Minstrel_, Canto VI. stanza i
- 660 On! on! through meadows, managed like a garden, A paradise of hops and high production; For, after years of travel by a bard in Countries of greater heat, but lesser suction, A green field is a sight which makes him pardon The absence of that more sublime
- 659 'T was strange enough she should retain the impression Through such a scene of change, and dread, and slaughter; But though three Bishops told her the transgression, She showed a great dislike to holy water; She also had no pa.s.sion for confession; Perh
- 658 Or the ear-trumpet of my good old aunt,[541]Who, though her spectacles at last grew dim, Drew quiet consolation through its hint, When she no more could read the pious print.x.x.xV.She was no Hypocrite at least, poor soul, But went to heaven in as sincere
- 657 XIII.This were the worst desertion:--renegadoes, Even shuffling Southey, that incarnate lie,[jx]Would scarcely join again the "reformadoes,"[530]Whom he forsook to fill the Laureate's sty; And honest men from Iceland to Barbadoes, Whether in Caledon or
- 656 {395}[518]["Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No! make me mistress to the man I love."Pope, _Eloisa to Abelard_, lines 87, 88.][jn]_O'er whom an Empress her Crown-jewels scattering_ _Was wed with something better than a ring_.--[MS. erased.
- 655 {381}[495] [See his "Correspondance avec L'Imperatrice de Russie,"_Oeuvres Completes_ de Voltaire, 1836, x. 393-477. M. Waliszewski, in his _Story of a Throne_, 1895, i. 224, has gathered a handful of these flowers of speech: "She is the chief person
- 654 Lx.x.xI.Love had made Catherine make each lover's fortune, Unlike our own half-chaste Elizabeth, Whose avarice all disburs.e.m.e.nts did importune, If History, the grand liar, ever saith The truth; and though grief her old age might shorten, Because she
- 653 Great joy was hers, or rather joys: the first Was a ta'en city, thirty thousand slain: Glory and triumph o'er her aspect burst, As an East Indian sunrise on the main:-- These quenched a moment her Ambition's thirst-- So Arab deserts drink in Summer's
- 652 x.x.xIX.Think if then George the Fourth should be dug up![503]How the new worldlings of the then new East Will wonder where such animals could sup!(For they themselves will be but of the least: Even worlds miscarry, when too oft they pup, And every new cr
- 651 "But Heaven," as Ca.s.sio says, "is above all--[491]No more of this, then, let us pray!" We have Souls to save, since Eve's slip and Adam's fall, Which tumbled all mankind into the grave, Besides fish, beasts, and birds. "The sparrow's fall Is spe
- 650 CANTO THE NINTH.I.[476]Oh, Wellington! (or "Villainton"[477]--for Fame[it]Sounds the heroic syllables both ways; France could not even conquer your great name, But punned it down to this facetious phrase-- Beating or beaten she will laugh the same,) You
- 649 Platow et d'Orlow ..."--_Ibid._, p. 213.][452] [" ... la premiere partie, devant se joindre a la gauche du general a.r.s.eniew, fut foudroyee par le feu des batteries, et parvint neanmoins au haut du rempart."--_Ibid._, p. 213.][453] ["Les Turcs la l
- 648 [In the _London Gazette Extraordinary_ of June 22, 1815, Captain Grove, 1st Guards, is among the list of killed. In the supplement to the _London Gazette_, published July 3, 1815, the mistake was corrected, and the entry runs, "1st Guards, 3d Batt. Lieut
- 647 Much did they slay, more plunder, and no less Might here and there occur some violation In the other line;--but not to such excess As when the French, that dissipated nation, Take towns by storm: no causes can I guess, Except cold weather and commiseratio
- 646 CVIII.And spite of Johnson and of Juan, who Expended all their Eastern phraseology In begging him, for G.o.d's sake, just to show So much less fight as might form an apology For _them_ in saving such a desperate foe-- He hewed away, like Doctors of Theol
- 645 However this may be, 't is pretty sure The Russian officer for life was lamed, For the Turk's teeth stuck faster than a skewer, And left him 'midst the invalid and maimed: The regimental surgeon could not cure His patient, and, perhaps, was to be blame
- 644 LXIV.'T is true he shrank from men even of his nation, When they built up unto his darling trees,-- He moved some hundred miles off, for a station Where there were fewer houses and more ease; The inconvenience of civilisation Is, that you neither can be
- 643 To Jack, howe'er, this gave but slight concern: His soul (like galvanism upon the dead) Acted upon the living as on wire, And led them back into the heaviest fire.XLII.Egad! they found the second time what they The first time thought quite terrible enoug
- 642 And therefore we must give the greater number To the Gazette--which doubtless fairly dealt By the deceased, who lie in famous slumber In ditches, fields, or wheresoe'er they felt Their clay for the last time their souls enc.u.mber;-- Thrice happy he whos
- 641 {327}[hw]_As a brook's stream to cope with Ocean's flood shed_ _But still we moderns equal you in bloodshed_.--[MS. erased.]{328}[hx]_As in a General's letter when well whacked_ _Whatever deeds be done I will relate 'em,_ _With some small variations i
- 640 {311}[387] ["Le meme esprit fit manquer l'effet de trois brulots; on calcula mal la distance; on se pressa d'allumer la meche, ils brulerent au milieu du fleuve, et quoiqu'il fut six heures du matin, les Turcs, encore couches, n'en prirent aucun ombr
- 639 At least _he feels it_, and some say he _sees_, Because he runs before it like a pig; Or, if that simple sentence should displease, Say, that he scuds before it like a brig, A schooner, or--but it is time to ease This Canto, ere my Muse perceives fatigue.