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DEDICATION.

I.

BOB SOUTHEY! You 're a poet-Poet-laureate,
And representative of all the race,
Although 't is true that you turn'd out a Tory at
Last,-yours has lately been a common case:
And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at?
With all the Lakers, in and out of place?
A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye
Like "four-and-twenty blackbirds in a pie;
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"Which pie being open'd they began to sing" (This old song and new simile holds good),

"A dainty dish to set before the king,"

Or Regent, who admires such kind of food;— And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,

But like a hawk encumber'd with his hood,Explaining metaphysics to the nation

I wish he would explain his Explanation. (2)
III.

You, Bob! are rather insolent, you know,
At being disappointed in your wish
To supersede all warblers here below,

And be the only Blackbird in the dish;
And then you overstrain yourself, or so,

And tumble downward like the flying-fish Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob, And fall, for lack of moisture quite a-dry, Bob!

(1) The following is the order in which Don Juan was pro- the impression which it left on the retentive mind of Byron may duced:

Cantos first and second, written in 1818 at Venice, were published in July 1819, with neither author's her bookseller's name.-Cantos third, fourth, and fifth, written in 1819-1821 at Ravenna, and published anonymously in August 1821.-Cantos seven, six, eight, nine, ten, and eleven, written at Pisa, in 18221823, appeared, with the author's name, in July and August 1823. The remaining five cantos, written at Genoa in 1823, were published in November of the same year, and in March 1824. The annexed stanza was written on the back of the manuscript canto first:

I would to heaven that I were so much clay,
As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feeling,-
Because, at least, the past were pass'd away-
And for the future (but I write this reeling,

Having got drunk exceedingly to-day,

So that I seem to stand upon the ceiling),

I say the future is a serious matter

Aud so-for God's sake-bock and soda-water.

"In the year 1799, while Lord Byron was the pupil of Dr. Glennie, at Dulwich, among the books that lay accessible to the boys was a pamphlet, entitled Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Juno on the Coast of Arracan, in the Year 1795. The pamphlet attracted but little public attention; but, among the young students of Dulwich Grove it was a favourite study; and

have had some share, perhaps, in suggesting that curious research through all the various accounts of Shipwrecks upon record, by which he prepared himself to depict, with such power, a scene of the same description in Don Juan.............. As to the charge of plagiarism brought against him by some scribblers of the day, for so doing,-with as much justice might the Italian author, who wrote a Discourse on the military Science displayed by Tasso in his battles, have reproached that poet with the sources from which he drew his knowledge;-with as much justice might Puysegur and Segrais, who have pointed out the same merit in Homer and Virgil, have withheld their praise, because the science on which this merit was founded, must have been derived by the skill and industry of these poets from others. So little was Tasso ashamed of those casual imitations of other poets which are so often branded as plagiarisms, that, in his Commentary on his Rime, he takes pains to point out whatever coincidences of this kind occur in his own verses."-Moore.

"With regard to the charges about the Shipwreck, I think that I told you and Mr. Hobhouse, years ago, that there was not a single circumstance of it not taken from fact; not indeed, from any single shipwreck, but all from actual facts of different wrecks."-Lord. B. to Mr. Murray.

(2) Mr. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria appeared in 1817. -E.

IV.

And Wordsworth, in a rather long Excursion
(I think the quarto holds five hundred pages),
llas given a sample from the vasty version

Of his new system (1) to perplex the sages; 'T is poetry—at least by his assertion,

And may appear so when the dog-star rages-
And he who understands it would be able
To add a story to the Tower of Babel.

V.

You-Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion
From better company, have kept your own
At Keswick, (2) and, through still continued fusion
Of one another's minds, at last have grown
To deem, as a most logical conclusion,
That Poesy has wreaths for you alone:
There is a narrowness in such a notion,
Which makes me wish you'd change your lakes for
VI.

I would not imitate the petty thought,
Nor coin my self-love to so base a vice,
For all the glory your conversion brought,

[ocean.

Since gold alone should not have been its price,
You have your salary; was 't for that you wrought?
And Wordsworth has his place in the Excise.(3)
You're shabby fellows-true-but poets still,
And duly seated on the immortal hill.

VII.

Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows -
Perhaps some virtuous blushes ;-let them go—
To you I envy neither fruit nor boughs-

And for the fame you would engross below,
The field is universal, and allows

Scope to all such as feel the inherent glow: [try Scott, Rogers, Campbell, Moore, and Crabbe, will 'Gainst you the question with posterity.

VIII.

For me, who, wandering with pedestrian Muses,
Contend not with you on the winged steed,

I wish your fate may yield ye, when she chooses,
The fame you envy, and the skill you need:
And recollect, a poet nothing loses

In giving to his brethren their full meed
Of merit, and complaint of present days
Is not the certain path to future praise.
IX.

He that reserves his laurels for posterity
(Who does not often claim the bright reversion)
Has generally no great crop to spare it, he

Being only injured by his own assertion;
And although here and there some glorious rarity
Arise like Titan from the sea's immersion,
The major part of such appellants go
To-God knows where-for no one else can know.

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If, fallen in evil days on evil tongues,

Milton appeal'd to the Avenger, Time,

If Time, the Avenger, execrates his wrongs,

And makes the word "Miltonic" mean "sub-
He deign'd not to belie his soul in songs, [lime,"
Nor turn his very talent to a crime;

He did not loathe the Sire to laud the Son,
But closed the tyrant-hater he begun.

XI.

Think'st thou, could he-the blind Old Man-arise
Like Samuel from the grave, to freeze once more
The blood of monarchs with his prophecies,
Or be alive again—again all hoar
With time and trials, and those helpless eyes,

And heartless daughters-worn-and pale (4,-)
Would he adore a sultan ? he obey [and poor:
The intellectual eunuch, Castlereagh? (5)

(3) Wordsworth's place may be in the Customs-it is, I think, in that or the Excise-besides another at Lord Lonsdale's table, where this poetical charlatan and political parasite licks up the crumbs with a hardened alacrity; the converted Jacobin having long subsided into the clownish sycophant of the worst prejudices of the aristocracy.

(1) "When, some years ago, a gentleman, the chief writer and at Keswick. Mr. Wordsworth, who lived at one time on Grasmere, conductor of a celebrated review, distinguished by its hostility has for many years past occupied Mount Rydal, near Ambleside : to Mr. Southey, spent a day or two at Keswick, he was circum-Professor Wilson possesses an elegant villa on Windermere: stantially informed by what series of accidents it had happened, Coleridge, Lamb, Lloyd, and others, classed by the Edinburgh that Mr. Wordsworth, Mr. Southey, and I had become neigh-Review in the Lake School, never, we believe, had any connection bours; and how utterly groundless was the supposition, that we with that part of the country.-E. considered ourselves as belonging to any common school but that of good sense, confirmed by the long established models of the best times of Greece, Rome, Italy, and England; and still more groundless the notion that Mr. Southey (for, as to myself, I have published so little, and that little of so little importance, as to make it almost ludicrous to mention my name at all) could have been concerned in the formation of a poetic sect with Mr.Wordsworth, when so many of his works had been published, not only previously to any acquaintance between them, but before Mr. Wordsworth himself had written any thing but in a diction ornate, and uniformly sustained; when, too, the slightest examination will make it evident, that between those and the after-writings of Mr. Southey there exists no other difference than that of a progressive degree of excellence, from progressive developement of power, and progressive facility from habit and increase of experience. Yet, among the first articles which this man wrote after his return from Keswick, we were characterised as 'the school of whining and hypochondriacal poets that haunt the Lakes." Coleridge.-E.

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(4) Pale, but not cadaverous:"-Milton's two elder daughters are said to have robbed him of his books, besides cheating and plaguing him in the economy of his house, etc. etc. His feelings on such an outrage, both as a parent and a scholar, must have been singularly painful. Hayley compares him to Lear. See part third, Life of Milton, by W. Hayley (or Halley, as spelt in the edition before me). (5) Or,

"Would he subside into a hackney Laureate

A scribbling, self-sold, soul-hired, scorn'd Iscariot?"

I doubt if "Laureate" and "Iscariot" be good rhymes, but must say, as Ben Jonson did to Sylvester, who challenged him to

(2) Mr. Southey is the only poet of the day that ever resided rhyme with—

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XII.

Cold-blooded, smooth-faced, placid miscreant!
Dabbling its sleek young hands in Erin's gore,
And thus for wider carnage taught to pant,

Transferr❜d to gorge upon a sister shore;
The vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want,
With just enough of talent, and no more,
To lengthen fetters by another fix'd,
And offer poison long already mix'd.
XIII.

An orator of such set trash of phrase
Ineffably-legitimately vile,

That even its grossest flatterers dare not praise,
Nor foes-all nations-condescend to smile,-
Not even a sprightly blunder's spark can blaze
From that Ixion grindstone's ceaseless toil,
That turns and turns to give the world a notion
Of endless torments and perpetual motion.
XIV.

A bungler even in its disgusting trade,

And botching, patching, leaving still behind Something of which its masters are afraid,

States to be curb'd, and thoughts to be confined, Conspiracy or Congress to be made

Cobbling at manacles for all mankind

A tinkering slave-maker, who mends old chains,
With God and man's abhorrence for its gains
XV.

If we may judge of matter by the mind,

Emasculated to the marrow, It

Hath but two objects, how to serve, and bind
Deeming the chain it wears even men may fit,
Eutropius of its many masters, (1)—blind

To worth as freedom, wisdom as to wit,
Fearless-because no feeling dwells in ice,
Its very courage stagnates to a vice.

"I, John Sylvester,

Lay with your sister."

Jonson answered,-"I, Ben Jonson, lay with your wife." Sylvester answered,-"That is not rhyme."-"No," said Ben Jonson; but it is true."

XVI.

Where shall I turn me not to view its bonds,
For I will never feel them;-Italy!
Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds

Beneath the lie this State-thing breathed o'er
thee-

Thy clanking chain, and Erin's yet green wounds,
Have voices-tongues to cry aloud for me.
Europe has slaves-allies-kings-armies still,
And Southey lives to sing them very ill.

XVII.

Meantime Sir Laureate-I proceed to dedicate,
In honest simple verse, this song to you.
And, if in flattering strains I do not predicate,
'Tis that I still retain my "buff and blue;" (2)
My politics as yet are all to educate :
Apostacy's so fashionable, too,

To keep one creed's a task grown quite Herculean;
Is it not so, my Tory ultra-Julian ? (3)
VENICE, September 16, 1818. (4)

DON JUAN. (5)

CANTO I.

I.

I WANT a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month send forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,

The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,

I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan-
We all have seen him, in the pantomime, (6)
Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time.

(2) Mr. Fox and the Whig Club of his time adopted a uniform of blue and buff: hence the coverings of the Edinburgh Review, etc.-E.

(3) I allude not to our friend Landor's hero, the traitor Count Julian, but to Gibbon's hero, vulgarly yclept The Apostate.

(4) This "Dedication" was suppressed, in 1819, with Lord Byron's reluctant consent; but, shortly after his death, its existence became notorious, in consequence of an article in the Westminster Review, generally ascribed to Sir John Hobhouse; and, for several years, the verses have been selling in the streets as a broadside. It could, therefore, serve no purpose to exclude them on the present occasion.-E.

(5) Begun at Venice September 6; finished November 1, 1818. -B.

(1) For the character of Eutropius, the eunuch and minister at the court of Arcadius, see Gibbon. ["Eutropius, one of the principal eunuchs of the palace of Constantinople, succeeded the haughty minister whose ruin he had accomplished, and whose vices he soon imitated. He was the first of his artificial sex who dared to assume the character of a Roman magistrate and general. Sometimes, in the presence of the blushing senate, he ascended the tribunal to pronounce judgment, or to repeat elaborate barangues; and sometimes appeared on horseback, at the head of his troops, in the dress and armour of a hero. The "You ask me for the plan of Donny Johnny: I have no disregard of custom and decency always betrays a weak and ill-plan; I had no plan; but I had or have materials." Lord Byregulated mind: nor does Eutropius seem to have compensated for the folly of the design by any superior merit or ability in the execution. His former habits of life had not introduced him to the study of the laws, or the exercises of the field; his awkward and unsuccessful attempts provoked the secret contempt of the spectators; the Goths expressed a wish that such a general might always command the armies of Rome; and the name of the minister was branded with ridicule more pernicious, perhaps, than hatred to a public character." (ibbon.-E.]

ron to Murray. August 12, 1819.

(6) Remodelled under the names of Don Juan, The Libertine, etc. etc. the old Spanish spiritual play, entitled Atheista Fulminato, formerly acted in the churches and monasteries, has had its day of favour in every country throughout Europe. It was first introduced upon the regular stage, under the title of El Burlador de Sevilla y Combidado de Pierro, by Gabriel 1ellez, the contemporary of Calderon. It was soon translated into Italian by Cicognini, and performed with so much success

II.

Vernon the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke,

Were French, and famous people, as we know ; And there were others, scarce forgotten yet,

Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Joubert, Hoche, Marceau, Lannes, Desaix, Mo

Howe, (1)

Evil and good, have had their tithe of talk,
And fill'd their sign-posts then, like Wellesley

now;

Each in their turn like Banquo's monarchs stalk Followers of fame, "nine farrow" of that sow: France, too, had Bonaparte (2) and Dumourier, Recorded in the Moniteur and Courrier.

III.

Barnave, Brissot, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Pétion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette,

in this language, not only in Italy but even at Paris, that Molière, shortly before his death, produced a comedy in five acts, called Don Juan; ou, Le Festin de Pierre. This piece was, in 1677, put into verse by T. Corneille; and thus it has been performed on the French stage ever since. In 1676, Shadwell, the successor of Dryden in the laureateship, introduced the subject into this country, in his tragedy of the Libertine; but he made his hero so unboundedly wicked, as to exceed the limits of probability. In all these works, as well as in Mozarts celebrated opera, the Don is uniformly represented as a travelling rake, who practises every where the arts of seduction, and who, for his numerous delinquencies, is finally consumed by flames coram populo, or, as Lord Byron has it," Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time." -E.

(1) General Vernon served with considerable distinction in the navy, particularly in the capture of Porto Bello, and died in 1757. -The Duke of Cumberland, second son of George II, distinguished himself at the battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy, and still more so at that of Culloden, where he defeated the Chevalier, in 1746. He, however, obscured his fame by the cruel abuse which he made, or suffered his soldiers to make, of the victory. Ile died in 1765.-General Wolfe, the brave commander of the expedition against Quebec, terminated his career in the moment of victory, whilst fighting against the French in 1759.-In 1759, Admiral Lord Hawke totally defeated the French fleet equipped at Brest for the invasion of England. In 1765 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty; and died, full of honours, in 1781.Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, gained the victory of Minden. In 1762, he drove the French out of Hesse. At the peace of 1763, he retired to Brunswick, and devoted the remainder of his life to freemasonry. He died in 1792.-The Marquis of Granby, son of the third Duke of Rutland, signalised himself, in 1745, on the invasion by Prince Charles; and was constituted, in 1759, commander of the British forces in Germany. He died in 1770.Gen. Burgoyne was an English general officer and dramatist, who distinguished himself in the defence of Portugal, in 1762, against the Spaniards; and also in America by the capture of Ticonderoga; but was at last obliged to surrender with his army to general Gates. He died in 1792.-Admiral Keppel was second son of the Earl of Albemarle. Placed at the head of the channel fleet, he partially engaged, in 1778, the French fleet off Ushant, which contrived to escape: he was, in consequence, tried by a court martial, and honourably acquitted. He died in 1785.Lord Howe distinguished himself on many occasions during the American war. On the breaking out of the French war, he took the command of the English fleet, and, bringing the enemy to an action on the 1st of June, 1791, obtained a splendid victory. He died, full of years and honours, in 1789.-E.

With many of the military set, Exceedingly remarkable at times, But not at all adapted to my rhymes.

IV.

Nelson was once Britannia's god of war,

[reau, (2)

And still should be so, but the tide is turn'd; There's no more to be said of Trafalgar,

'Tis with our hero quietly inurn'd; Because the army's grown more popular,

At which the naval people are concern'd; Besides, the prince is all for the land-service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis.

of my idolatry.' The first lines I ever wrote upon Bonaparte were the Ode on Napoleon, after his abdication in 1814. All that I have ever written on that subject has been done since his decline;-I never met him in the hour of his success.' I have considered his character at different periods, in its strength and in its weakness: by his zealots I am accused of injustice-by his enemies as his warmest partisan, in many publications, both English and foreign.

"For the accuracy of my delineation I have high authority. A year and some months ago, I had the pleasure of seeing, at Venice, my friend the Honourable Douglas Kinnaird. In his way through Germany, he told me that he had been honoured with a presentation to, and some interviews with, one of the nearest family connections of Napoleon (Eugène Beauharnais.)' During one of these, he read and translated the lines alluding to Bonaparte, in the third Canto of Child Harold. He informed me, that he was authorised by the illustrious personage-(still recognised as such by the Legitimacy in Europe)—to whom they were read, to say, 'that the delineation was complete,' or words to this effect. It is no puerile vanity which induces me to publish that fact;-but Mr. Hazlitt accuses my inconsistency, and infers my inaccuracy. Perhaps he will admit that, with regard to the latter, one of the most intimate family connections of the Emperor may be equally capable of deciding on the subject. I tell Mr. Hazlitt, that I never flattered Napoleon on the throne, nor maligned him since his fall. I wrote what I think are the incredible antitheses of his character.

"Mr. Hazlit accuses me further of delineating myself in Childe Harold, etc. etc. I have denied this long ago-but, even were it true, Locke tells us, that all his knowledge of the human understanding was derived from studying his own mind. From Mr. Hazlitt's opinion of my poetry I do not appeal; but I request that gentleman not to insult me by imputing the basest of crimes,-viz. 'praising publicly the same man whom I wished to depreciate in his adversity :'-the first lines I ever wrote on Bonaparte were in his dispraise, in 1814,—the last, though not at all in his favour, were more impartial and discriminative, in 1818. Has he become more fortunate since 1814? B. Venice, 1819."-E.

(3) Barnave was one of the most active promoters of the French revolution, and was in 1791 appoited president of the Constituent Assembly. On the flight of the royal family, he was sent to conduct them to Paris. When, in 1792, the correspondence of the court fell into the hands of the victorious party, they pretended to have found documents which showed him to have been secretly connected with it; and he was guillotined, Nov. 1793.— Brissot de Warville, at the age of twenty, published several tracts for one of which he was, in 1784, thrown into the Bastille. He (2) In the MS. was the following note to this stanza :was one of the principal instigators of the revolt of the Champ "In the eighth and concluding lecture of Mr. Hazlitt's canons de Mars, in July, 1789. Being denounced by Robespierre, be of criticism, delivered at the Surrey Institution, I am accused of was led to the guillotine, Oct. 1793.-Condorcet was, in 1792, having lauded Bonaparte to the skies in the hour of his suc-appointed president of the legislative Assembly. Having in 1793 cess and then peevishly wreaking my disappointment on the god attacked the new constitution, he was denounced.

Being thrown

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Brave men were living before Agamemnon (1)
And since, exceeding valorous and sage,

A good deal like him too, though quite the same

none;

But then they shone not on the poet's page,
And so have been forgotten:-I condemn none,
But can't find any in the present age
Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one);
So, as I said, I'll take my friend Don Juan. (2)
VI.

Most epic poets plunge "in medias res"

(Horace makes this the heroic turnpike-road), (3) And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What went before-by way of episode,

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was mortally wounded by a cannon-ball at Marengo, just as vic-
tory declared for the French. His body was embalmed at Milan,
and conveyed, by Napoleon's orders, to the hospice of St. Ber-
nard.-Moreau was one of the most distinguished of the repub-
lican generals. In 1813, on hearing of the reverses of Napoleon
in Russia, he joined the allied armies. He was struck by a can-
non-ball at the battle of Dresdeu, in 1813. The only stain at-

cause. "Those," observe Sir Walter Scott, "who, more bold
than we are, shall decide that his conduct, in one instance, too
much resembled that of Coriolanus, and the constable of Bour-
bon, must yet allow that the fault, like that of those great men,
was atoned for by an early and a violent death."-E.
(1) "Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi: sed omnes illacrymabiles
Urgentur, ignotique longâ

Nocte, carent quia vate sacro."-Hor..
["Before great Agamemnon reign'd,

into prison, he was on the following morning found dead, apparently from poison. His works are collected in twenty-one volumes.-Mirabeau, so well known as one of the chief promoters of and actors in, the French revolution, died in 1791.-Petion, mayor of Paris in 1791, took an active part in the imprisonment of the king. Becoming, in 1793, an object of suspicion to Robespierre, he took refuge in the department of the Calvados; where his body was found in a field, half-devoured by wolves.-tached to his memory is the fact of his accession to the allied John Baptiste (better known under the appellation of Anacharsis) Clootz, in 1799, at the bar of the National Convention, described himself as the orator of the human race. Being suspected by Robespierre, he was, in 1794, condemned to death. On the scaffold be begge to be decapitated the last, as he wished to make some observations essential to the establishment of certain principles, while the heads of the others were failing, a request obligingly complied with!-Danton played a very important part during the first years of the French revolution. After the fall of the king, he was made Minister of Justice. His violent measures led to the bloody scenes of September, 1792. Being denounced to the Committee of Safety, he ended his career on the guillotine in 1794.-The wretch Marat figured among the actors of the 10th August, and in the assassinations of September, 1792. In May, 1795, he was denounced, and delivered to the revolutionary tribunal, which acquitted him; but his bloody career was arr sted by the knife of an assassin, in the person of Charlotte Corday.-Of all Lord Byron's "famous people," General Lafayette has been the latest survivor. He died, May 20, 1834.-Joubert rose from the rank of a common soldier to that of general, distinguished himself at the engagements of Laono, Montenotte, Millesimo, Cava, Montebello, Rivoli, and especially in the Tyrol. He was afterwards opposed to Suwarrow, and was killed, in 1799, at Novi.In 1796, Hoche was appointed to the command of the expedition against Ireland, and sailed in December from Brest; but, a storm dispersing the fleet, the plan failed. After his return, he received the command of the army of the Sambre and Meuse; but died suddenly, in September, 1797, it was supposed of poison.-General Marceau first distinguished himself in La Vendée. He was killed by a rifle-ball at Alterkerchen

"Honour to Marceau! o'er whose early to.nb

Tears, big tears, gush'd from the rough soldier's lid, Lamenting, and yet envying, such a doomFalling for France, whose rights he battled to resume." Lannes, Duke of Montebello (surnamed the "Orlando" and the "Ajax" of the French camp) was the son of a poor mechanic. He distinguished himself at Millesimo, Todi, Aboukir, Acre, Montebello, Austerlitz, Jena, Pultusk, Preuss, Eylau, Friedland, Tudela, Saragossa, Eckmuhl, and, lastly, at Essling; were, in May, 1809, he was killed by a cannon-shot. "I found him a dwarf," said Napoleon, "but lost him a giant."-At the taking of Malta, and at the battles of Chebreiss and of the Pyramids, Desaix displayed the greatest bravery. His mild and unvarying equity obtained for him, in Egypt, the title of "The Just General." He

Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave,
Whose huge ambition's now contain'd

In the small compass of a grave;
In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown,
No bard had they to make all time their own."
Francis, p. 223.-E.]

(2) Mr. Coleridge, speaking of the original Atheista Fulminato, says "Rank, fortune, wit, talent, acquired knowledge, and liberal accomplishments, with beauty of person, vigorous health, and constitutional hardihood-all these advantages, elevated by the habits and sympathies of noble birth and national character, are supposed to have combined in Don Juan, so es to give him the means of carrying into all its practical consequences the doctrine of a godless nature, as the sole ground and efficient cause not only of all things, events, and appearances, but likewise of all our thoughts, sensations, impulses, and actions. Obedience to nature is the only virtue: the gratification of the passions and appetites her only dictate: each individual's self-will the sole organ through which nature utters her commands, and

Self contradiction is the only wrong!
For, by the laws of spirit, in the right
Is every individual's character

That acts in strict consistence with itself."-E

(3) "Semper ad eventum festinat, et in medias res,
Nou secus ac notas, auditorem rapit."

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"But to the grand event he speeds his course,
And bears his readers, with impetuous force,
Into the midst of things; while every line
Opens, by just degrees, his whole design

Francis.-E.

(4) "The women of Seville are, in general, very handsome,

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