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Public sensation on Lord Byron's departure. Description of Lord Byron's person,

from the Quarterly Review. Childe Harold, Canto III. On the personal

allusions of the poem. Wanderings of the self-exile. Reaches Waterloo.

Visits the spot where his relative, Major Howard, was mortally wounded

and buried. Amende honorable for his former asperity towards the

Earl of Carlisle. Causes of that resentment. Circumstances attending Lord

Byron's taking his seat in the House of Lords. On quitting Waterloo he wan-

ders on the bank of the Rhine. Proceeds to Switzerland. Visits Geneva and

Lausanne. Takes up his residence at the latter place. The castle of Chillon

described. Sonnet to Liberty. Prisoner of Chillon. Some ccount of the

Life of Bonnivard. A Dream. Lord Byron's acquaintance with Madame de

Stael. His habits and society at Lausanne. Removes to Venice,
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CHAPTER VII.

Lord Byron enters into all the profligacies of Venice. Becomes enamoured of a
baker's wife, whom he called his Fornarina. Her excessive attachment and
jealousy. On the exaggerations of Lord Byron's aversion to English visitors.
Trait of his generosity. Anecdotes of Fletcher, his Lordship's valet. With-
drawn from the degradations of Venice by the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Shelley.
Shelley's delineation of his noble friend, under the appellation of Count Maddalo.
Extracts from Shelley's Julian and Maddalo. His picture of Lord Byron's
child, Allegra. Lord Byron annoyed by the Austrian government, who pro-
scribe his works. Quits Venice. Stanzas descriptive of the Countess
Guiccioli. Remarks on Captain Medwin's Journal of the conversations of Lord
Byron. Sonnet to the Countess Guiccioli. Remarks on his Lordship's con-
nexion with the Countess. Lady Morgan's description of the deplorable state
of society at Venice. Causes of its present degraded state. Particulars of the
Countess Guiccioli. Address to the Po. Lord Byron removes to Ravenna.
Becomes the cavaliere servante of the Countess. Manfred. Lord Byron visits
the hospital of St. Anna, at Ferrara. Lament of Tasso. Extract from some of
Tasso's letters. Evidence of Lord Byron's friendship for Mr. Hobhouse.

Childe Harold, Canto IV. Recollections of Venice. Description of Arqua,

where Petrarch lived and died. Visit to Florence. Proceeds to Rome.

Remarks on the Ottava Rima. Nature of the Whistlecrafts' Prospectus.

Beppo. Mazeppa. The Vampyre, a tale by Dr. Polidori, who afterwards

poisoned himself, attributed to Lord Byron. His Lordship reputed a Vampyre.

Publishes A Fragment, in order to disabuse the public mind from the

Vampyre reports.

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CHAPTER VIII.

Renewal of Lord Byron's connexion with the Countess Guiccioli at Ravenna.*

The Count Guiccioli appeals to the Pope's chancery. Resolves to shut his

wife up in a convent. She escapes with Lord Byron to Ravenna. Description

of the Countess Guiccioli's person. The intrigues of the Carbonari causes Lord

Byron and the Count Gamba to retire to Pisa, where the Countess joins them.

Lord Byron's regret at leaving Ravenna. His hatred to the Austrian government.

Don Juan, Cantos I. and II. Unmanly attack on Lady Byron. Remarks

thereon. Examination of his Lordship's sanity. Detested by Lady Noel.

Controversy with Mr. Bowles, on the genius of Pope. Marino Faliero. The

Prophecy of Dante.

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CHAPTER IX.

Mr. Southey's animadversions on the immoralities of Don Juan. Lord Byron's

reply to Southey's attack. Opinion of the Edinburgh Review on the question.

Letter from Mr. Southey in answer to Lord Byron. Mr. Medwin's account of

a conversation with Lord Byron on the subject. Mr. Southey's letter in con-

tradiction to some of Mr. Medwin's statements.
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CHAPTER X.

Sardanapalus. The Two Foscari. Extract from Mr. Daru's History of the

Republic of Venice. Cain. Mr. Murray applies for an injunction to restrain

a piracy of Cain. Injunction refused on the ground of its immoralities. A

remonstrance to the publisher of Cain. Lord Byron's letter to Mr. Murray

on the subject.

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CHAPTER XI.

Lord Byron's mode of living in Italy. Trick played upon Sir George W——.

Ludicrous revenge upon an English singer. Intrepidity of the Countess

Guiccioli. Singularities of Lord Byron. An American's account of his inter-

view with Lord Byron. M. Beyle's account of Lord Byron's method of living.

Observations on Madame Belloc's Life of Lord Byron. Don Juan, Cantos

III. to XVI.

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CHAPTER XII.

Werner. Miss Lee's Kruitzner.

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CHAPTER XIII.

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Mr. Leigh Hunt leaves England, and joins Lord Byron and Mr. Shelley at Pisa.
Mr. Medwin's account of Lord Byron's opinion of Mr. Hunt. The Liberal,
No. I. The Vision of Judgment. Mr. J. Hunt fined 1001. for publishing the
Vision of Judgment. Heaven and Earth. Translation of Pulci's Morgante
Moggiore.

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CHAPTER XIV.

Age of Bronze. The Island. Mutiny of the crew of the Bounty. The Deformed
Transformed. Letter from Goethe to Mr. Medwin on the genius of Lord Byron.
Letter by Sir Walter Scott on the death of Lord Byron.

CHAPTER XV.

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Determines

Italy becomes irksome to Lord Byron, and he resolves on quitting it.
on visiting Greece, and aiding their cause. Embarks from Leghorn, and arrives
in Cephalonia. Count Gamba's account of an excursion from Cephalonia
to Ithaca. Hospitality of an Italian, resident in Greece. The party visit
Captain Knox at Vathi. Lord Byron relieves numerous fugitive families in
Ithaca. Arrangement of his occupations at Metaxata. Dreadful catastrophe,
and indignation of Lord Byron at the apathy of the by-standers. Lord Byron
becomes melancholy on hearing of his daughter Ada's illness. Visited by
Lord Sydney Osborne. Reasons for his staying at Metaxata. Party dissen-.
sions among the Greeks previous to the arrival of Lord Byron at Cephalonia.
Death of Marco Bozzari. Extract from a letter of Marco Bozzari's, urging the
speedy arrival of Lord Byron. His Lordship offers two thousand dollars a
month for the succour of Missolonghi and the Suliotes. Narrative of the daring
enterprise of Marco Bozzari. Lord Byron's caution to prevent falling into the
bands of a party. Dr. Kennedy refuted by Lord Byron on points of religion.
Differences between the Greek chiefs, Coloctronis and Mavrocordatos. Pro-
ceedings of the Congress at Salamis. Lord Byron resolves on relieving Misso-
longhi. Extracts from letters by Maviocordatos and Lord Byron on the critical
state of Greek affairs. Devotedness of his Lordship to the cause. His difficulty
and anxiety in procuring supplies. Sails for Missolonghi with Count Gamba,
in two Ionian vessels. The Count's vessel taken by a Turkish frigate. The
Count escapes by his admirable presence of mind, and arrives at Missolonghi.
Dangers attending Lord Byron's voyage. Enthusiastic reception of Lord
Byron at Missolonghi. Simplicity of his mode of living. Rescues a Turk from
the hands of some Greek sailors, and sends him to Patras. Lines on com-
pleting his thirty-sixth year. Letter to the Turkish chief, on liberating four
Turkish prisoners. Lord Byron appointed to the command of three thousand
troops for the attack of Lepanto. Lancasterian schools and dispensaries for
the preservation of public health established at Missolonghi by Colonel
Stanhope. Two newspapers established at Missolonghi. Difference of opinion
between Lord Byron and Colonel Stanhope. Stanhope's defence of Mr.
Bentham against the attacks of Lord Byron. Colonel Stanhope accuses Lord
Byron of being an enemy to the liberty of the press. Prospectus of the Greek