[61] In illustration of his comparatively humble position early, Greville in his later _Journal_, Chapter XXIV., speaks of Disraeli’s once proposing to Moxon, the publisher, to take him (Disraeli) into partnership; Greville says Moxon told him this. [62] George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron), b. (London) 1788; d. (Greece) 1824. _Hours of Idleness_, 1807; _English Bards, etc._, 1809; _Childe Harold_ (2 cantos), 1812; _Don Juan_, 1819-24; Moore’s _Life_, 1830; Trelawney, _Recollections, etc._, 1858. The first volume (Macmillan, 1897) has appeared of a new edition of Byron’s works, with voluminous notes (in over-fine print) by William Ernest Henley. The editorial stand-point may be judged by this averment from the preface,--“the sole English poet bred since Milton to live a master-influence in the world at large.” Another full edition of works, with editing by Earl of Lovelace (grandson of Byron), is announced as shortly to appear from the press of Murray in London, and of Scribners in New York. [63] Byron’s _Narrative_, published in the first volume of _Hawkesworth’s Collection_. Hon. John Byron, Admiral, etc., was at one time Governor of Newfoundland; b. 1723; d. 1786. [64] The short line is not enough. We must give the burden of that apostrophe to the land of Hellas, though only in a note: “Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields. There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of the mountain air; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beams Mendeli’s marbles glare, Art, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair.” [65] I cite that part of the “Dream” which, though written much time after, was declared by the poet, and by both friends and foes, to represent faithfully his attitude--both moral and physical--on the occasion of his marriage. [66] This poem appeared about the middle of April, 1816. The final break in his relations with Lady Byron had occurred, probably, in early February of the same year. On December 10, 1815, his daughter Ada was born; and on April 25th, next ensuing, he sailed away from England forever. Byron insisted that the poem (“Fare thee well”), though written in sincerity, was published against his inclinations, through the over-zeal of a friend.--_Moore’s Life_, p. 526, vol. i. [67] Percy Bysshe Shelley, b. 1792; d. (by drowning in Gulf of Spezia) 1822. _Queen Mab_, pub. 1821 (but privately printed 1813); _Alastor_, 1816; _Laon and Cythna_ (afterward _Revolt of Islam_), 1818; _Adonais_, 1821. _Life_, by Mrs. Shelley, 1845; Hogg’s _Life_, 1858; Rossetti’s, 1870. Besides which there is biographic material, more or less full, by Forman, Trelawny, McCarthy, Leigh Hunt, Garnett, and Jeaffreson (_Real Shelley_). _Life_, in _English Men of Letters_, by the late John Addington Symonds; and in 1886, Professor Dowden’s work.