The Works of Lord Byron Volume I Part 103

['MS. British Bards.']

[Sub-Footnote A: William Smyth (1766-1849). Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, published his 'English Lyrics' (in 1806), and several other works.]

[Footnote lxix:

'Yet hold--as when by Heaven's supreme behest, If found, ten righteous had preserved the Rest In Sodom's fated town--for Granta's name Let Hodgson's Genius plead and save her fame But where fair Isis, etc.'

['MS.' and 'British Bards.']]

[Footnote lxx:

'See Clarke still striving piteously to please Forgets that Doggrel leads not to degrees.--'

['MS. Fragment' bound up with 'British Bards'.]

[Footnote lxxi:

'So sunk in dullness and so lost in shame That Smythe and Hodgson scarce redeem thy fame.--'

['MS. Addition to British Bards. First to Fourth Editions'.]]

[Footnote lxxii:

'----is wove.--'

[MS. British Bards' and 'First to Fourth Editions'.]]

[Footnote lxxiii:

'And modern Britons justly praise their sires.'--

['MS. British Bards' and 'First to Fourth Editions]]

[Footnote lxxiv:

'--what her sons must know too well.'

['British Bards]]

[Footnote lxxv:

'Zeal for her honour no malignant Rage, Has bade me spurn the follies of the age.--'

['MS. British Bards'. First Edition]]

[Footnote lxxvi:

'--Ocean's lonely Queen.'

['British Bards']]

'--Ocean's mighty Queen.'

['First to Fourth Editions']]

[Footnote: lxxvii.

'Like these thy cliffs may sink in ruin hurled The last white ramparts of a falling world'.--

['British Bards MS.']]

[Footnote: lxxviii.

'But should I back return, no lettered rage Shall drag my common-place book on the stage: Let vain Valentia [A] rival luckless Carr, And equal him whose work he sought to mar.--'

['Second to Fourth Editions'.]

[Sub-Footnote: A. Lord Valentia (whose tremendous travels are forthcoming with due decorations, graphical, topographical, typographical) deposed, on Sir John Carr's unlucky suit, that Mr.

Dubois's satire prevented his purchase of 'The Stranger' in Ireland.--Oh, fie, my lord! has your lords.h.i.+p no more feeling for a fellow-tourist?--but "two of a trade," they say, etc. [George Annesley, Viscount Valentia (1769-1844), published, in 1809, 'Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt in the Years 1802-6'. Byron calls him "vain" Valentia, because his "accounts of ceremonies attending his lords.h.i.+p's interviews with several of the petty princes" suggest the thought "that his princ.i.p.al errand to India was to measure certain rank in the British peerage against the gradations of Asiatic royalty."--'Eclectic Review', August, 1809. In August, 1808, Sir John Carr, author of numerous 'Travels', brought an unsuccessful action for damages against Messrs. Hood and Sharpe, the publishers of the parody of his works by Edward Dubois,--'My Pocket Book: or Hints for a Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede Tour, in 4to, to be called "The Stranger in Ireland in 1805,"' By a Knight Errant, and dedicated to the papermakers.

(See Letter to Hodgson, August 6, 1809, and suppressed stanza (stanza Ix.x.xvii.) of the first canto of 'Childe Harold'.)]]

[Footnote lxxix:

'To stun mankind, with Poesy or Prose'.

['Second to Fourth Editions'.]

[Footnote lx.x.x:

'Thus much I've dared to do, how far my lay'.--

['First to Fourth Editions'.]]