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separation. Lord B.’s prejudices respecting women. Family jars; Mrs. Charlement. Domestic felony. Mrs. Mardyn. Statute of lunacy. Lady Noel’s hatred: anecdote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
38—45 | |
Lady Byron’s abilities. Lord B.’s various counter-parts. “The Examiner” and Lady Jersey. Sale of Newstead Abbey; departure from England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
45—49 | |
Madame de Staël and Goëthe. Lord B.’s partiality for America; curious specimen of American criticism. The ‘Sketches of Italy.’ Lord B.’s life at Venice; further remarks on his Memoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
49—53 | |
Anecdotes of himself and companions; Lord Falkland. Lord B.’s presentiments; early horror of matrimony; anti-matrimonial wager. Anecdotes of his father. Craniology. Anecdote of his uncle. Early love for Scotland; Mary C. Harrow School; Duke of Dorset; Lords Clare and Calthorpe; school rebellion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
53—62 | |
The ‘Hours of Idleness.’ The skull goblet; a new order established at Newstead. Julia Alpinula. Skulls from the field of Morat. Lord B.’s contempt for academic honours; his bear; the ourang-outang. A lady in masquerade. Mrs. L. G.’s depravity. Singular occurrence. Comparison of English and Italian profligacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
62—68 | |
Fashionable pastimes; Hell in St. James’s Street; chicken-hazard. Scroope Davies, and Lord B.’s pistols; the deodand. Lord B. commences his travels. His opinion of Venice. His own and Napoleon’s opinion of women. The new Fornarina; Harlowe the painter. Gallantry sometimes dangerous at Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
68—74 | |
Lord Byron’s religious opinions; his scepticism only occasional. English Cathedral Service. Religion of Tasso and Milton. Missionary Societies, and missions to the East. Tentazione di Sant’ Antonio. Tacitus; Priestley and Wesley. Dying moments of Johnson, Cowper, Hume, Voltaire, and Creech. Sale. Anything-arians; Gibbon; Plato’s three principles. Lord B.’s correspondents; ecstatic epistolary extract. Prayer for Lord B.’s conversion; his avowal of being a Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
74—83 | |
| Ali Pacha’s barbarity. Affecting tale. Real incident in ‘The Giaour.’ Albanian guards. The Doctor in alarm. Lord Byron’s ghost. He prophesies that he should die in Greece. Lord Byron and | ||
