The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1. PoetryByron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1. Poetry
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Poetry
['MS. First to Fourth Editions' (a correction in the Annotated Copy).]]
[Footnote lxviii:
'With odes by Smyth [A] and epic songs by Hoyle,
Hoyle whose learn'd page, if still upheld by whist
Required no sacred theme to bid us list.--'
['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'.]
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