21.-Page 31, line 21. Though passive tutors, fearful to dispraise Allow me to disclaim any personal allusions, even the most distant. I merely mention generally what is too often the weakness of preceptors. 22.-Page 32, line 37. And call'd, proud boast! the British drama forth. ["Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, was born in 1527. While a student of the Inner Temple, he wrote his tragedy of Gorbudue, which was played before Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall, in 1561. This tragedy, and his contribution of the Induction and legend of the Duke of Buckingham to the Mirror for Magistrates,' compose the poetical history of Sackville. The rest of it was political. In 1601, he was created Earl of Dorset by James I. He died suddenly at the council-table, in consequence of a dropsy on the brain."-CAMPBELL.] 23.-Page 33, line 2. The pride of princes, and the boast of song. [Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, was born in 1637, and died in 1706, I was esteemed the most accomplished man of his day, and alike distinguished in the voluptuous court of Charles II. and the gloomy one of William III. He behaved with considerable gallantry in the sea-fight with the Dutch in 1665; on the day previous to which he is said to have composed his celebrated song, "To all you Ladies now at Land." His character has been drawn in the highest colours by Dryden, Pope, Prior, and Congreve.] 24.-Page 33, last line. Will leave thee glorious, as he found thee great. [This amiable nobleman was killed by a fall from his horse while hunting in 1815. "I have," says Byron, in his letters of that year, "just been, or rather ought to be, very much shocked by the death of the Duke of Dorset. We were at school together, and there I was passionately attached to him. Since, we have never met, but once, I think, since 1805 --and it would be a paltry affectation to pretend that I had any feeling for him worth the name. But there was a time in my life when this event would have broken my heart; and all I can say for it now is, that -it is not worth breaking."] 25.-Page 31, line 2. WRITTEN SHORTLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE OF MISS CHAWORTH. [Miss Chaworth was married to John Musters, Esq., in August, 1895. The stanzas were first published by Mr. Moore after Lord Byron's death.] 26.-Page 34, line 14. Oh! could Le Sage's demon's gift The Diable Boiteux of Le Sage, where Asmodeus, the demon, places Don Cleofas on an elevated situation, and unroofs the houses for inspection. 27.-Page 34, line 25. Against the next elective day. [On the death of Mr. Pitt, in January, 1806, Lord Henry Petty and Lord Palmerston were candidates to represent the University of Cambridge in Parliament.] 28.-Page 34, line 26. Lo! candidates and voters lie [In the private volume the fourth and fifth stanzas ran thus:- The other on-the Lord knows what! Though neither will convince by that. The first, indeed, may not demur; 29.-Page 34, line 30. Lord H- indeed, may not demur; [Edward Harvey Hawke, third Lord Hawke. His Lordship died in 1824.] 30.-Page 35, line 21. Who reads false quantities in Seale, Seale's publication on Greek Metres displays considerable talen and ingenuity, but, as might be expected in so difficult a work is no remarkable for accuracy. 31.-Page 35, line 24. In barbarous Latin doom'd to wrangle: The Latin of the schools is of the canine species, and not very intelli gible. 32.-Page 35, line 28. The square of the hypothenuse. The discovery of Pythagoras, that the square of the hypothenuse i equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right-angled triangle. 33.-Page 36, line 11. A numerous crowd, array'd in white, On a saint's day the students wear surplices in chapel. 34.-Page 37, line 15. And friendships were form'd, too romantic to last; ["My school-friendships were with me passions (for I was alway violent), but I do not know that there is one which has endured (to i sure some have been cut short by death) till now."-Byron Diary, 1821. VOL. I. K 35.-Page 37, line 25. As reclining, at eve, on yon tombstone I lay; [A tomb in the churchyard at Harrow was so well known to be his favourite resting-place, that the boys called it 'Byron's Tomb:' and here, they say, he used to sit for hours, wrapt up in thought.-MOORE.] 36.-Page 37, line 31. I fancied that Mossop himself was outshone: Mossop, a contemporary of Garrick, famous for his performance of Zanga. 37.-Page 38, line 1. Or, as Lear, I pour'd forth the deep imprecation, For the display of his declamatory powers, on the speech-days, he selected always the most vehement passages; such as the speech of Zanga over the body of Alonzo, and Lear's address to the storm.MOORE.] 38.-Page 38, line 9. To Ida full oft may remembrance restore me, [In the private volume the two last stanzas ran— "I thought this poor brain, fever'd even to madness, "Sweet scenes of my childhood! your blest recollection 39.-Page 39, line 12. Would twinkle dimly through their sphere. "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, To twinkle in their spheres till they return."-SHAKSPEARE. 40.-Page 39, line 36. "Woman, thy vows are traced in sand." The last line is almost a literal translation from a Spanish proverb. 41.-Page 40, line 22. ''O MARY, ON RECEIVING HER PICTURE. [Of this "Mary," who is not to be confounded with the heiress of Annesley, or "Mary" of Aberdeen, all I can record is, that she was of an humble, if not equivocal, station in life, and that she had long ligh golden hair, of which he used to show a lock, as well as her picture among his friends.-MOORE.] 42.-Page 41, line 6. But where's the beam so sweetly straying, [But where's the beam of soft desire? Which gave a lustre to its blue, Love, only love, could e'er inspire.-First edit.] 43.-Page 42, line 28. to one of whom the following stanzas were addressed the next morning.] [The occurrence took place at Southwell, and the beautiful lady to whom the lines were addressed was Miss Houson.] 44.-Page 42, line 31. And hurtling o'er thy lovely head, This word is used by Gray in his poem to the Fatal Sisters:- 45.-Page 45, line 14, In law an infant, and in years a boy, In law every person is an infant who has not attained the age of twenty-one. [Damætas is evidently a melo-dramatised portrait of Lord Byron himself.] 46.-Page 47, line 32. To form the place of assignation. In the above little piece the author has been accused by some candid readers of introducing the name of a lady from whom he was some hundred miles distant at the time this was written; and poor Juliet, who has slept so long in "the tomb of all the Capulets," has been converted with a trifling alteration of her name, into an English damsel, walking in a garden of their own creation, during the month of December, in a village where the author never passed a winter. Such has been the candour of some ingenious critics. We would advise these liberal com mentators on taste and arbiters of decorum to read Shakspeare. 47.-Page 48, line 18. But curse my fate for ever after. Having heard that a very severe and indelicate censure has been passed on the above poem, I beg leave to reply in a quotation from a admired work, "Carr's Stranger in France."-" As we were contem plating a painting on a large scale, in which, among other figures, is the uncovered whole length of a warrior, a prudish-looking lady, who seemed to have touched the age of desperation, after having attentively surveyed it through her glass, observed to her party, that there was a great deal of indecorum in that picture. Madame S. shrewdly whispered in my ear that the indecorum was in the remark.'" 48.-Page 48, line 19. OSCAR OF ALVA. The catastrophe of this tale was suggested by the story of "Jeronyme and Lorenzo," in the first volume of Schiller's "Armenian, or the GhostSeer." It also bears some resemblance to a scene in the third act of "Macbeth." 49.-Page 49, line 26. The pibroch raised its piercing note; [Lord Byron falls into a very common error, that of mistaking pibroch, which means a particular sort of tune, for the instrument on which it is played, the bagpipe. Almost every foreign tourist does the same.] 50.-Page 54, line 24. For him thy Beltane yet may burn. [Beltane Tree, a Highland festival on the first of May, held near fires lighted for the occasion. The primeval origin of this Celtic superstition is preserved in the name Beal-tain, which means the fire of Baal.] 51.-Page 62, line 16. Creusa's style but wanting to the dame. The mother of Iulus, lost on the night when Troy was taken. 52.-Page 68, line 21. Ah! hapless dame! no sire bewails, Medea, who accompanied Jason to Corinth, was deserted by him for the daughter of Creon, king of that city. The chorus, from which this is taken, here addresses Medea; though a considerable liberty is taken with the original, by expanding the idea, as also in some other parts of the translation. 53.-Page 68, line 29. Who ne'er unlocks with silver key The original is “ Καθαρὰν ἀνοίξαντι κλῆρα φρενῶν ; ” literally " disclosing the bright key of the mind." 51.-Page 69, line 3. MAGNUS his ample front sublime uprears: No reflection is here intended against the person mentioned under the name of Magnus. He is merely represented as performing an unavoidable function of his office. Indeed, such an attempt could only recoil upon myself; as that gentleman is now as much distinguished by his eloquence, and the dignified propriety with which he fills his situation, |