The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
English poetry
Stanza viii. "Frown not upon me, churlish Priest! that I,"--
Stanza xiv. "Come, then, ye classic Thieves of each degree,"--
Stanza xv. "Or will the gentle Dilettanti crew,"--
Stanza lxiii. "Childe Harold with that Chief held colloquy,"--
INSERTIONS IN THE FIRST EDITION.
Stanza viii. "Yet if, as holiest men have deemed, there be,"--
Stanza ix. "There, Thou! whose Love and Life together fled,"--
Stanza xv. "Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on Thee,"--
Stanza lii. "Oh! where, Dodona! is thine agéd Grove?"--
Stanza lxiii. "Mid many things most new to ear and eye,"--
Stanza lxxx. "Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground,"--
Stanza lxxxiii. "Let such approach this consecrated Land,"--
Stanza lxxxiv. "For thee, who thus in too protracted song,"--
Stanza lxxxv. "Thou too art gone, thou loved and lovely one!"--
Stanza lxxxvi. "Oh! ever loving, lovely, and beloved!"--
Stanza lxxxvii. "Then must I plunge again into the crowd,"--
Stanza lxxxviii. "What is the worst of woes that wait on Age?"--
ADDITIONS TO THE SEVENTH EDITION, 1814.
The Second Canto, in the first six editions, numbers eighty-eight
stanzas; in the Seventh Edition the Second Canto numbers ninety-eight
stanzas.
ADDITIONS.
The Dedication, To Ianthe.
Stanza xxvii. "More blest the life of godly Eremite,"--
Stanza lxxvii. "The city won for Allah from the Giaour,"--
Stanza lxxviii. "Yet mark their mirth, ere Lenten days begin,"--
Stanza lxxix. "And whose more rife with merriment than thine,"--
Stanza lxxx. "Loud was the lightsome tumult on the shore,"--
Stanza lxxxi. "Glanced many a light Caique along the foam,"--
Stanza lxxxii. "But, midst the throng' in merry masquerade,"--
Stanza lxxxiii. "This must he feel, the true-born son of Greece,"--
Stanza lxxxix. "The Sun, the soil--but not the slave, the same,"--
Stanza xc. "The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow,"--
ITINERARY.
1809. CANTO I.
July 2. Sail from Falmouth in Lisbon packet. (Stanza xii. Letter 125.)
July 6. Arrive Lisbon. (Stanzas xvi., xvii. Letter 126.)
Visit Cintra. (Stanzas xviii.-xxvi. Letter 128.)
Visit Mafra. (Stanza xxix.)
July 17. Leave Lisbon. (Stanza xxviii. Letter 127.)
Ride through Portugal and Spain to Seville.
(Stanzas xxviii.-xlii. Letter 127.)
Visit Albuera. (Stanza xliii.)
July 21. Arrive Seville. (Stanzas xlv., xlvi. Letters 127, 128.)
July 25. Leave Seville.
Ride to Cadiz, across the Sierra Morena. (Stanza li.)
Cadiz. (Stanzas lxv.-lxxxiv. Letters 127, 128.)
CANTO II.
Aug. 6. Arrive Gibraltar. (Letters 127, 128.)
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