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Letters, Journals, and Other Prose Writings of Lord Byron; With Notices of His Life
Letters Journals and Other Prose Writings of Lord Byron With Notices of His Life Author:Baron George Gordon Byron Byron General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Original Publisher: G. Dearborn Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sel... more »ect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Lett 804. TO MR. MURRAY. " Venice, January 8. 1818. My dear Mr. Murray, You 're in a damn'd hurry To Bet up this ultimate Canto; But (if they don't rob us) You'll see Mr. Hobhouse Will bring it safe in his portmanteau. " For the Journal you hint of, As ready to print off, No doubt you do right to commend it; But as yet I have writ off The devil a bit of Our ' Beppo;' -- when copied, I'll send it. " Then you 've Tour, -- No great things, so be sure, You could hardly begin with a less work; For the pompous rascallion Who don't speak Italian Nor French, must have scribbled by guess-work. 11 You can make any loss up With ' Spence' and his gossip A work which must surely succeed; Then Queen Mary's Epistle-craft, With the new ' Fytte' of ' Whiitlecraft,' Must make people purchase and read. " Then you 've General Gordon, Who girded his sword on, To serve with a Muscovite master, And help him to polish A nation so owlish, They thought shaving their beards a disaster. ' For the man,' poor and gJireutd ,' With whom you'd conclude A compact without more delay, Perhaps some such pen is Still extant in Venice ; But please, sir, to mention your pay." Littm SOS. TO MR. MURRAY. " Venice, January 19.1818. " I send you the Story ( in three other separate covers. It won't do for your Journal, being full of political allusions. Print alone, without name; alter nothing; get a scholar to see that the Italian phrases are correctly published, (your printing, by the way, always makes me ill with its eternal blunders, which a...« less