The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. PoetryByron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Poetry
Line 502. For (-"ranks illustrious"-) both annotated copies read
"oat-fed phalanx."]
Lines 532, 533.
And grateful (-to the founder of the feast,-)
Declare his landlord (-can translate, at least.-)
And grateful for the dainties on his plate,
Declare his landlord can at least translate.
[The amended lines, which appeared in the Fifth Edition, are not in the
Murray copy.]
Lines 552, 553.
While Kenny's World (-just suffered to proceed,-)
(-Proclaims the audience very kind indeed.-)
While Kenny's World--ah where is Kenny's wit?
listless
Tires the sad Gallery--lulls the (-listening-) pit.
[The emendation is given in both annotated copies; but the substitution
of "listless" for "listening," which is adopted in the Fifth Edition,
does not appear in the Murray copy,]
Line 563. Let Comedy (-re-)sume
ass
[The correction is not given in the Murray copy.]
Line 569. and (-Kemble-) lives to tread.
Siddons
[The substitution of "Siddons" for "Kemble," which dates from the Fifth
Edition, is not given in the Murray copy.]
Line 728.
Want your (-defence-), let Pity be your screen
plea
Want is your plea, let Pity be your screen.
Lines 815, 816.
The spoiler (-came; and all thy promise fair-)
(-Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there.-)
The Spoiler swept that soaring Lyre away,
Which she had sounded an immortal lay.
[The emendation appears in both the annotated copies.]
L. 903. Let Moore (-be lewd-)
still sigh
[This emendation does not appear in the Murray copy, but the words ["be
lewd"] have been underscored with a pencil, and a X placed against
them.]
Line 946.
(-And even spurns the great Scatonian prize.-)
Even from the tempting ore of Seaton's prize.
[This emendation is given in both the annotated copies.]
Lines 965, 966.
So sunk in dullness (-and so lost in shame-)
(-That SMYTHE and HODGSON scarce redeem thy fame.-)
So sunk in dullness that nor Hodgson's verse
Can make thee better--nor poor Hewson's worse.
[This emendation is not in the Murray copy. The Fifth Edition adopts the
further correction, "So lost to Phoebus" for "So sunk in dullness."]
Line 969. (-"is-) wove,
she wove.
[This correction is not in the Murray copy.]
Line 972. ----(-justly praise-) their sires.
----glory in their sires.
[This emendation is not given in the Murray copy.
The Leigh Hunt copy gives twenty MS. emendations (besides "Death" for
"death," in line 820, and the alteration of "rapid" to "rabid" in the
note on Hewson Clarke, line 962) including the note on Moore. The Murray
copy gives nine MS. emendations, of which six are identical with those
in the Hunt copy. Three emendations are peculiar to the Murray copy--]
(1) Lines 303-306.
Behold!--ye tarts! etc. (_vide ante_, p. 309).
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