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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
- 301 [373] [Leave out this couplet.--Gifford.][374] {480} [Compare--"While the still morn went out with sandals grey."_Lycidas_, line 187.][375] [Strike out--"And the Noon will look on a sultry day."--Gifford.][376] The horsetails, fixed up
- 302 "But in a higher niche, alone, but crowned, The Virgin-Mother of the G.o.d-born Child, With her Son in her blessed arms, looked round ...But even the faintest relics of a shrine Of any wors.h.i.+p wake some thoughts divine."][qm]/ _chequered_ --
- 303 _January_ 22, 1816.ADVERTIs.e.m.e.nT.The following poem is grounded on a circ.u.mstance mentioned in Gibbon's "Antiquities of the House of Brunswick." I am aware, that in modern times, the delicacy or fastidiousness of the reader may deem s
- 304 'Tis true that I have done thee wrong-- But wrong for wrong:--this,--deemed thy bride, The other victim of thy pride,-- Thou know'st for me was destined long; Thou saw'st, and coveted'st her charms; And with thy very crime--my birth,--
- 305 [413] {507} [The revise of _Parisina_ is endorsed in Murray's handwriting, "Given to me by Lord Byron at his house, Sat.u.r.day, January 13, 1816."][414] The lines contained in this section were printed as set to music some time since, but
- 306 The _Champion_ had been the first to give tongue, and the other journals, on the plea that the mischief was out, one after the other took up the cry. On Monday, April 15, the _Sun_ printed _Fare Thee Well_, and on Tuesday, April 16, followed with _A Sketc
- 307 STANZAS TO AUGUSTA.[438]When all around grew drear and dark,[sn]And reason half withheld her ray-- And Hope but shed a dying spark Which more misled my lonely way; In that deep midnight of the mind, And that internal strife of heart, When dreading to be d
- 308 [sd] _At times the highest_----.--[MS. M.] [se] ----_of her evil will_.--[MS. M.] [sf] _What marvel that this mistress demon works_ / _wheresoeer she lurks_.--[MS. M.] _Eternal evil_ { _when she latent works_.--[Copy.] [sg] _A gloss of candour of a web of
- 309 The Works of Lord Byron.Volume 4.by Lord Byron.PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.The poems included in this volume consist of thirteen longer or more important works, written at various periods between June, 1816, and October, 1821; of eight occasional pieces
- 310 When skies are blue, and earth is gay.XI.A kind of change came in my fate, 300 My keepers grew compa.s.sionate; I know not what had made them so, They were inured to sights of woe, But so it was:--my broken chain With links unfastened did remain, And it w
- 311 Compare, too-- "She came into the cave, but it was merely To see her bird reposing in his nest."_Don Juan,_ Canto II. stanza clxviii. lines 3, 4.][10] {17}[Compare-- "Those polar summers, _all_ sun, and some ice."_Don Juan_, Canto XII.
- 312 Compare, too, _The Dream_, line 166, _vide post_, p. 39-- "What business had they there at such a time?"][27] {26}[Compare-- "He sighed, and turned his eyes, because he knew 'Twas but a larger jail he had in view."Dryden, _Palamon
- 313 Is not the past all shadow?--What are they?Creations of the mind?--The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own 20 With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.[37]I would recall a vision which
- 314 PROMETHEUS.[64]I.t.i.tan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that G.o.ds despise; What was thy pity's recompense?[65]A silent suffering, and intense; The rock, the vulture, and the chain,
- 315 VI.From the wreck of the past, which hath perished,[x]Thus much I at least may recall, It hath taught me that what I most cherished Deserved to be dearest of all: In the Desert a fountain is springing,[y][81]In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a
- 316 XVI.For thee, my own sweet sister, in thy heart I know myself secure, as thou in mine; We were and are--I am, even as thou art--[am]Beings who ne'er each other can resign; It is the same, together or apart, From Life's commencement to its slow d
- 317 [47] ["This is true _keeping_--an Eastern picture perfect in its foreground, and distance, and sky, and no part of which is so dwelt upon or laboured as to obscure the princ.i.p.al figure."--Sir Walter Scott, _Quarterly Review_, No. x.x.xi. &quo
- 318 [60] {46}[On the sheet containing the original draft of these lines Lord Byron has written, "The following poem (as most that I have endeavoured to write) is founded on a fact; and this detail is an attempt at a serious imitation of the style of a gr
- 319 [72] [The edition of 1832 and subsequent issues read "and equal." It is clear that the earlier reading, "an equal," is correct. The spirit opposed by the spirit is an equal, etc. The spirit can also oppose to "its own funereal des
- 320 [z]_Go where thou wilt thou art to me the same_-- _A loud regret which I would not resign_.--[MS.][84] [Compare-- "Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister!"_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza clxxvii. lines
- 321 [93] {64}[Compare-- "Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy Spirit shall not sleep.Nor to slumber nor to die, Shall be in thy destiny."_The Incantation_, lines 201, 202, 254, 255, _Manfred_, act i. sc. 1, _vide post_, pp. 92, 93.][94] [Compare
- 322 Ye Bards! to whom the Drama's Muse is dear, He was your Master--emulate him _here_!Ye men of wit and social eloquence![103]He was your brother--bear his ashes hence!While Powers of mind almost of boundless range,[104]Complete in kind, as various in t
- 323 For the text of Goethe's review of _Manfred_, and Hoppner's translation of that review, and an account of Goethe's relation with Byron, drawn from Professor A. Brandl's _Goethes Verhaltniss zu Byron (Goethe-Jahrbuch, Zwanzigster Band_,
- 324 _Spirit_. It is not in our essence, in our skill; But--thou may'st die._Man_. Will Death bestow it on me?_Spirit_. We are immortal, and do not forget; We are eternal; and to us the past 150 Is, as the future, present. Art thou answered?_Man_. Ye mock
- 325 _C. Hun_. I'll answer that anon.--Away with me---- The clouds grow thicker----there--now lean on me-- Place your foot here--here, take this staff, and cling A moment to that shrub--now give me your hand, And hold fast by my girdle--softly--well-- 120
- 326 _Witch_. I know not that; let thy lips utter it._Man_. Well, though it torture me, 'tis but the same; My pang shall find a voice. From my youth upwards 50 My Spirit walked not with the souls of men, Nor looked upon the earth with human eyes; The thir
- 327 _Nem_. I was detained repairing shattered thrones-- Marrying fools, restoring dynasties-- Avenging men upon their enemies, And making them repent their own revenge; Goading the wise to madness; from the dull Shaping out oracles to rule the world Afresh--f
- 328 _Nem_. Silent still!She is not of our order, but belongs To the other powers. Mortal! thy quest is vain, And we are baffled also._Man_. Hear me, hear me-- Astarte! my beloved! speak to me: I have so much endured--so much endure-- Look on me! the grave hat
- 329 _Man_. I hear thee. This is my reply--whate'er I may have been, or am, doth rest between Heaven and myself--I shall not choose a mortal To be my mediator--Have I sinned Against your ordinances? prove and punis.h.!.+[154]_Abbot_. My son! I did not spe
- 330 _Abbot_. Upon myself I take The forfeit of my fault, if fault there be-- But I must see him._Her_. Thou hast seen him once his eve already._Abbot_. Herman! I command thee,[bf]Knock, and apprize the Count of my approach._Her_. We dare not._Abbot_. Then it
- 331 _Spirit_. But thy many crimes Have made thee-- _Man_. What are they to such as thee?Must crimes be punished but by other crimes, And greater criminals?--Back to thy h.e.l.l!Thou hast no power upon me, _that_ I feel; Thou never shalt possess me, _that_ I k
- 332 [126] [The fall of the Rossberg took place September 2, 1806. "A huge ma.s.s of conglomerate rock, 1000 feet broad and 100 feet thick, detached itself from the face of the mountain (Rossberg or Rufiberg, near Goldau, south of Lake Zug), and slipped d
- 333 [146] {114}[Compare-- "Sorrow is Knowledge."Act I. sc. 1, line 10, _vide ante_, p. 85.Compare, too-- "Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!'All that we know is, nothing can be known.'"_Childe Harold_, Canto II. sta
- 334 [157] [A reminiscence of the clouds of spray from the Fall of the Staubbach, which, in certain aspects, appear to be springing upwards from the bed of the waterfall.][158] {125}[Compare _The Giaour,_ lines 282-284. Compare, too, _Don Juan,_ Canto IV. stan
- 335 THE LAMENT OF Ta.s.sO.INTRODUCTION TO _THE LAMENT OF Ta.s.sO_.The MS. of the _Lament of Ta.s.so_ is dated April 20, 1817. It was despatched from Florence April 23, and reached England May 12 (see _Memoir of John Murray_, 1891, i. 384). Proofs reached Byro
- 336 I thought mine enemies had been but Man, But Spirits may be leagued with them--all Earth Abandons--Heaven forgets me;--in the dearth 200 Of such defence the Powers of Evil can-- It may be--tempt me further,--and prevail Against the outworn creature they a
- 337 _Rosalind_. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller; Look, you lisp, and wear strange suits: disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your Nativity, and almost chide G.o.d for making you that countenance you are; or I will scarce think you h
- 338 That picture (howsoever fine the rest) Is loveliest to my mind of all the show; It may perhaps be also to _your_ zest, And that's the cause I rhyme upon it so: Tis but a portrait of his Son, and Wife, And self; but _such_ a Woman! Love in life![201]X
- 339 x.x.xVI.Besides, within the Alps, to every woman, (Although, G.o.d knows, it is a grievous sin,) 'Tis, I may say, permitted to have _two_ men; I can't tell who first brought the custom in, But "Cavalier Serventes" are quite common, And
- 340 LVII.Laura, when dressed, was (as I sang before) A pretty woman as was ever seen, Fresh as the Angel o'er a new inn door, Or frontispiece of a new Magazine,[224]With all the fas.h.i.+ons which the last month wore, Coloured, and silver paper leaved be
- 341 No Chemistry for them unfolds her gases, No Metaphysics are let loose in lectures, No Circulating Library ama.s.ses Religious novels, moral tales, and strictures Upon the living manners, as they pa.s.s us; No Exhibition glares with annual pictures; They s
- 342 His wife received, the Patriarch re-baptised him, (He made the Church a present, by the way;) He then threw off the garments which disguised him, And borrowed the Count's smallclothes for a day: His friends the more for his long absence prized him, F
- 343 [208] {168}["The general state of morals here is much the same as in the Doges' time; a woman is virtuous (according to the code) who limits herself to her husband and one lover; those who have two, three, or more, are a little wild; but it is o
- 344 ODE ON VENICE[234]I.Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea!If I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do?--an
- 345 Such was Mazeppa, a man destined to pa.s.s through the crowded scenes of history, and to take his stand among the greater heroes of romance. His deeds of daring, his intrigues and his treachery, have been and still are sung by the wandering minstrels of t
- 346 X."Away!--away!--My breath was gone, I saw not where he hurried on: 'Twas scarcely yet the break of day, And on he foamed--away!--away!The last of human sounds which rose, As I was darted from my foes, 380 Was the wild shout of savage laughter,
- 347 Even music followed her light feet. 830 But those she called were not awake, And she went forth; but, ere she pa.s.sed, Another look on me she cast, Another sign she made, to say, That I had nought to fear, that all Were near, at my command or call, And s
- 348 Sonnet, "No more my visionary soul shall dwell," by S. T. Coleridge, attributed by Southey to Favell.--_Letters of S. T. Coleridge,_ 1895, i.83; Southey's _Life and Correspondence,_ 1849, i. 224.][268] {226}[Compare _Werner_, iii. 3-- "
- 349 Thou, in the pride of Beauty and of Youth, Spakest; and for thee to speak and be obeyed Are one; but only in the sunny South Such sounds are uttered, and such charms displayed, So sweet a language from so fair a mouth--[278]Ah! to what effort would it not
- 350 Thus trammelled, thus condemned to Flattery's trebles, He toils through all, still trembling to be wrong: For fear some n.o.ble thoughts, like heavenly rebels, Should rise up in high treason to his brain, He sings, as the Athenian spoke, with pebbles
- 351 [bw] {248}_Star over star_----.--[MS. Alternative reading.][288]"Che sol per le belle opre Che sono in cielo, il sole e l'altre stelle, Dentro da lor _si crede il Paradiso:_ Cos se guardi fiso Pensar ben dei, che ogni terren piacere.[Si trova in
- 352 Gothard in 1664, and in 1675-6 commanded on the Rhine, and out-generalled Turenne and the Prince de Conde][302] Columbus, Americus Vespusius, Sebastian Cabot.[Christopher Columbus (circ. 1430-1506), a Genoese, discovered mainland of America, 1498; Amerigo
- 353 [317] [Compare-- "Thy G.o.dlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness ...But baffled as thou wert from high ...Thou art a symbol and a sign To Mortals."_Prometheus_, iii. lines 35, _seq_.; _vide ant
- 354 OF PULCI.INTRODUCTION TO THE _MORGANTE MAGGIORE_.It is possible that Byron began his translation of the First Canto of Pulci's _Morgante Maggiore_ (so called to distinguish the entire poem of twenty-eight cantos from the lesser _Morgante_ [or, to coi
- 355 XIV."If thou rememberest being in Gascony, When there advanced the nations out of Spain The Christian cause had suffered shamefully, Had not his valour driven them back again.Best speak the truth when there's a reason why: Know then, oh Emperor!
- 356 The giant his astonishment betrayed, And turned about, and stopped his journey on, And then he stooped to pick up a great stone.x.x.xV.Orlando had Cortana bare in hand; To split the head in twain was what he schemed: Cortana clave the skull like a true br
- 357 LIV."So that all persons may be sure and certain That they are dead, and have no further fear To wander solitary this desert in, And that they may perceive my spirit clear By the Lord's grace, who hath withdrawn the curtain Of darkness, making H
- 358 The Abbot said, "The steeple may do well, But for the bells, you've broken them, I wot."Morgante answered, "Let them pay in h.e.l.l The penalty who lie dead in yon grot;"And hoisting up the horse from where he fell, He said, "
- 359 "In principio era il Verbo appresso a Dio; Ed era Iddio il Verbo, e 'l Verbo lui: Quest' era nel principio, al parer mio; E nulla si pu far sanza costui: Per, giusto Signor benigno e pio, Mandami solo un de gli angeli tui, Che m'accomp
- 360 To be thus kissed by such devoted lover,[cs]He, who from me can be divided ne'er, Kissed my mouth, trembling in the act all over: 40 Accursed was the book and he who wrote![356]That day no further leaf we did uncover.'While thus one Spirit told
- 361 line 4: Love, which too soon the soft heart apprehends, Seized him for the fair form, the which was there Torn from me, and even yet the mode offends.line 8: Remits, seized him for me with joy so strong-- line 12: These were the words then uttered-- Since
- 362 Byron was the first to perceive that the story of Marino Faliero was a drama "ready to hand;" but he has had many followers, if not imitators or rivals."_Marino Faliero_, tragedie en cinq actes," by Casimir Jean Francois Delavigne, was
- 363 _Pie_. With struggling patience.[cw]Placed at the Ducal table, covered o'er With all the apparel of the state--pet.i.tions, Despatches, judgments, acts, reprieves, reports,-- He sits as rapt in duty; but whene'er[cx] 10 He hears the jarring of a
- 364 _Doge_. Venice' Duke!Who now is Duke in Venice? let me see him, That he may do me right._Ber. F._ If you forget Your office, and its dignity and duty.Remember that of man, and curb this pa.s.sion.The Duke of Venice---- _Doge_ (_interrupting him_). Th
- 365 _Doge_. I'm unwell-- I can see no one, not even a patrician-- Let him refer his business to the Council. 290 _Vin_. My Lord, I will deliver your reply; It cannot much import--he's a plebeian, The master of a galley, I believe._Doge_. How! did yo
- 366 _Doge_. You overrate my power, which is a pageant.This Cap is not the Monarch's crown; these robes Might move compa.s.sion, like a beggar's rags; Nay, more, a beggar's are his own, and these But lent to the poor puppet, who must play Its pa
- 367 _Doge_. Wretch! darest thou name my son? He died in arms At Sapienza[398] for this faithless state.Oh! that he were alive, and I in ashes!Or that he were alive ere I be ashes!I should not need the dubious aid of strangers. 560 _I. Ber_. Not one of all tho
- 368 _Mar_. But previous to this marriage, had your heart Ne'er beat for any of the n.o.ble youth, Such as in years had been more meet to match Beauty like yours? or, since, have you ne'er seen 120 One, who, if your fair hand were still to give, Migh
- 369 Is't nothing to have brought into contempt A Prince before his people? to have failed In the respect accorded by Mankind To youth in woman, and old age in man?To virtue in your s.e.x, and dignity In ours?--But let them look to it who have saved him._
- 370 Joy's recollection is no longer joy, While Sorrow's memory is a sorrow still._Ang_. At least, whate'er may urge, let me implore That you will take some little pause of rest: Your sleep for many nights has been so turbid, That it had been re
- 371 _Cal_. I've noted most; and caused the other chiefs To use like caution in their companies.As far as I have seen, we are enough 140 To make the enterprise secure, if 'tis Commenced to-morrow; but, till 'tis begun, Each hour is pregnant with
- 372 _I. Ber_. Let us away--hark--the Hour strikes._Doge_. On--on-- It is our knell, or that of Venice.--On._I. Ber_. Say rather, 'tis her Freedom's rising peal 120 Of Triumph. This way--we are near the place.[_Exeunt_.SCENE II.--_The House where the
- 373 Without its virtues--temperance and valour.The Lords of Lacedaemon were true soldiers,[ds]But ours are Sybarites, while we are Helots, 160 Of whom I am the lowest, most enslaved; Although dressed out to head a pageant, as The Greeks of yore made drunk the
- 374 Till n.o.bler game is quarried: his offence Was a mere ebullition of the vice, The general corruption generated By the foul Aristocracy: he could not-- He dared not in more honourable days Have risked it. I have merged all private wrath Against him in the
- 375 _Lioni_. 'Tis a strange hour, and a suspicious bearing! 120 And yet there is slight peril: 'tis not in Their houses n.o.ble men are struck at; still, Although I know not that I have a foe In Venice, 'twill be wise to use some caution.Admit
- 376 Within the breast which trusted to his truth.Lioni. And who will strike the steel to mine?_Ber_. Not I; I could have wound my soul up to all things Save this. _Thou_ must not die! and think how dear Thy life is, when I risk so many lives, Nay, more, the L
- 377 _Doge_. Come hither, my Bertuccio--one embrace; Speed, for the day grows broader; send me soon A messenger to tell me how all goes When you rejoin our troops, and then sound--sound 130 The storm-bell from St. Mark's![et][_Exit_ BERTUCCIO FALIERO._Dog
- 378 _1st Sig_. Lords, our orders Are to keep guard on both in separate chambers, Until the Council call ye to your trial._Doge_. Our trial! will they keep their mockery up Even to the last? but let them deal upon us, As we had dealt on them, but with less pom
- 379 _Cal_. And on this testimony would he perish?_Ben_. So your confession be detailed and full, 80 He will stand here in peril of his life._Cal_. Then look well to thy proud self, President!For by the Eternity which yawns before me, I swear that _thou_, and
- 380 _Doge_. A spark creates the flame--'tis the last drop Which makes the cup run o'er, and mine was full Already: you oppressed the Prince and people; I would have freed both, and have failed in both: The price of such success would have been glory
- 381 Thy suing to these men were but the bleating Of the lamb to the butcher, or the cry Of seamen to the surge: I would not take A life eternal, granted at the hands Of wretches, from whose monstrous villanies I sought to free the groaning nations!_Michel Ste
- 382 _Doge_. And yet I find a comfort in The thought, that these things are the work of Fate; For I would rather yield to G.o.ds than men, Or cling to any creed of destiny, Rather than deem these mortals, most of whom[fr]I know to be as worthless as the dust,
- 383 "Justice hath dealt upon the mighty Traitor!"[_The gates are opened; the populace rush in towards the The foremost of them exclaims to those behind,_ "The gory head rolls down the Giants' Steps!"[fy][481][_The curtain falls_.[482]
- 384 "My princ.i.p.al object in addressing you was to testify my sincere respect and admiration of a man, who, for half a century, has led the literature of a great nation, and will go down to posterity as the first literary Character of his Age."You
- 385 Byron's "have partook" cannot come under the head of "good, sterling, genuine English"! (See letter to Murray, October 8, 1820, _Letters_, 1901, v. 89.)][396] {363}[The bells of San Marco were never rung but by order of the Doge.
- 386 "I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die."_Richard III_., act v. sc. 4, lines 9, 10.][420] {392}["The equestrian statue of which I have made mention in the third act as before the church, is not ... of a Falie
- 387 "So we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright."For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And Love
- 388 "On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung."][ey] _Or met some unforeseen and fatal obstacle._--[Alternative reading.MS. M.][448] {430}[A translation of _Beltramo Bergamasco_, i.e. a native of the town and
- 389 [fq] _A madness of the heart shall rise within_.--[Alternative reading.MS. M.][467] [Compare-- "I pull in resolution."_Macbeth_, act v. sc. 5, line 42.][468] {452}[See the translation of Sanudo's narrative in Appendix, p.463.][fr]----_whom
- 390 [480] {461} "Un Capo de' Dieci" are the words of Sanuto's Chronicle.[fy]_The gory head is rolling down the steps!_ _The head is rolling dawn the gory steps!_-- [Alternative readings. MS. M.][481] [A picture in oils of the execution of
- 391 NOTE C.Venetian Society and Manners."Vice without splendour, sin without relief Even from the gloss of love to smooth it o'er; But in its stead, coa.r.s.e l.u.s.ts of habitude," etc."To these attacks so frequently pointed by the govern
- 392 may be it is not my province to predicate; let him settle it with his Maker, as I must do with mine. There is something at once ludicrous and blasphemous in this arrogant scribbler of all works sitting down to deal d.a.m.nation and destruction upon his fe
- 393 'Gebir, he feared the Demons, not the G.o.ds, Though them indeed his daily face adored; And was no warrior, yet the thousand lives Squandered, as stones to exercise a sling, And the tame cruelty and cold caprice-- Oh madness of mankind! addressed, ad
- 394 "No," quoth the Cherub: "George the Third is dead.""And who _is_ George the Third?" replied the apostle: "_What George? what Third?_" "The King of England," said The angel. "Well! he won't find k
- 395 "Michael!" replied the Prince of Air, "even here Before the gate of Him thou servest, must I claim my subject: and will make appear That as he was my wors.h.i.+pper in dust, So shall he be in spirit, although dear To thee and thine, because
- 396 (If nations may be likened to a goose), And realised the phrase of "h.e.l.l broke loose."[529]LIX.Here crashed a st.u.r.dy oath of stout John Bull, Who d.a.m.ned away his eyes as heretofore: There Paddy brogued "By Jasus!"--"What&
- 397 For sometimes he like Cerberus would seem-- "Three gentlemen at once"[541] (as sagely says Good Mrs. Malaprop); then you might deem That he was not even _one_; now many rays Were flas.h.i.+ng round him; and now a thick steam Hid him from sight--
- 398 He had sung against all battles, and again In their high praise and glory; he had called Reviewing "the ungentle craft," and then[559]Became as base a critic as e'er crawled-- Fed, paid, and pampered by the very men By whom his muse and mor
- 399 [502] [George III. died the 29th of January, 1820. "The year 1820 was an era signalized ... by the many efforts of the revolutionary spirit which at that time broke forth, like ill-suppressed fire, throughout the greater part of the South of Europe.
- 400 [gu] _A_ part _of that which they held all of old_.--[MS. erased][523] {503}[George III. resisted Catholic Emanc.i.p.ation in 1795. "The more I reflect on the subject, the more I feel the danger of the proposal."--Letter to Pitt, February 6, 179