child again. Lady Byron, as you know, was one broken head to Lucca, at my desire, to try to save also, and so is my daughter, &c. a man from being burnt. The Spanish, that "Is not this rather odd-such a complication of has her peticoats over Lucca, had actually cononly children? By-the-way, send me my daughter demned a poor devil to the stake, for stealing the Ada's miniature. I have only the print, which wafer-box out of a church. Shelley and I, of gives little or no idea of her complexion. course, were up in arms against this piece of piety, LETTER DXL. TO MR. MOORE. "Pisa, December 12, 1821. LETTER DXLI. TO MR. SHELLEY. "December 12, 1821. His rea "What you say about Galignani's two biographies is very amusing; and, if I were not lazy, I would certainly do what you desire. But I doubt" MY DEAR SHELlley, my present stock of facetiousness-that is, of good "Enclosed is a note for you from -. serious humor, so as not to let the cat out of the sons are all very true, I dare say, and it might and bag. I wish you would undertake it. will for- may be of personal inconvenience to us. But that give and indulge you (like a pope) beforehand, for does not appear to me to be a reason to allow a being any thing ludicrous, that might keep those fools to be burnt without trying to save him. To save him in their own dear belief that a man is a loup garou. by any means but remonstrance, is of course out of the "I suppose I told you that the Giaour story had question; but I do not see why a temperate remoractually some foundation on facts; or, if I did not, strance should hurt any one. Lord Guilford is the you will one day find it in a letter of Lord Sligo's, man, if he would undertake it. He knows the written to me after the publication of the poem. I Grand Duke personally, and might, perhaps, preshould not like marvels to rest upon any account of vail upon him to interfere. But, as he goes to-marmy own, and shall say nothing about it. However, row, you must be quick or it will be useless. Make the real incident is still remote enough from the any use of my name that you please. poetical one, being just such as, happening to a man of any imagination, might suggest such a composition. The worst of any real adventures is, that they involve living people-else Mrs. S -'s, &c., are as 'german to the matter' as Mr. Maturin could desire for his novels. "Yours ever, &c." LETTER DXLII. TO MR. MOORE. "The consummation you mentioned for poor Taafe was near taking place yesterday. Riding pretty sharply after Mr. Medwin and myself, in "I send you the two notes, which will tell you turning the corner of a lane between Pisa and the the story I allude to of the Auto da Fe. Shelley's hills, he was spilt,-and, besides losing some claret allusion to his fellow-serpent' is a buffoonery of on the spot, bruised himself a good deal, but is in mine. Goethe's Mephistofilus calls the serpent no danger. He was bled, and keeps his room. As who tempted Eve my aunt, the renowned snake;" I was a-head of him some hundred yards, I did not and I always insist that Shelley is nothing but one see the accident; but my servant, who was behind, of her nephews, walking about on the tip of his did, and, says the horse did not fall-the usual ex-tail." cuse of floored equestrians. As Taafe piques himself upon his horsemanship, and his horse is really a pretty horse enough, I long for his personal narrative, as I never yet met the man who would fairly claim a tumble as his own property. "Could not you send me a printed copy of the 'Irish Avatar ?'-I do not know what has become of Rogers since we parted at Florence. "Don't let the Angles keep you from writing. Sam told me that you were somewhat dissipated in Paris, which I can easily believe. Let me hear from you at your best leisure. "Ever, and truly, &c. "P. S. December 13. • Mr. Galignani having expressed a wish to be furnished with a short Memoir of Lord Byron, for the purpose of prefixing it to the French edition of his works, I had said jestingly in a preceding letter to his lordship, that it would be but a fair satire on the disposition of the world to "bemonster his Satures," if he would write for the public, English as well as French, a sort of mock-heroic account of himself, outdoing, in horrors and wonders, all that nad been vet related or believed of him, and leaving even Goethe's story of the double murder at Florence far behind. Moore. ↑ Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa page 575. TO LORD BYRON. "MY DEAR LORD, "2 o'clock, Tuesday Morning Although strongly persuaded that the story must be either an entire fabrication, or so gross an exaggeration as to be nearly so; yet, in order to be able to discover the truth beyond all doubt, and to set your mind quite at rest, I have taken the deter mination to go myself to Lucca this morning. Should it prove less false than I am convinced it I shall not fail to exert myself in every way that I can imagine may have any success. Be assured of this. "Your lordship's most truly, "P. S. To prevent bavardage. I prefer going in person to sending my servant with a letter. It is better for you to mention nothing (except of course, to Shelley) of my excursion. The person! visit there is one on whom I can have every depend ence in every way, both as to authority and truth 18 at Leghorn; and as your courier applied to me to know whether he ought to leave your letter for him or not, I have thought it best since this information to tell him to take it back. "Ever faithfully yours, LETTER DXLIII. TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. "MY DEAR SIR WALTER, "Pisa, January 12, 1822. lingsgate therefor. I like a row, and always did from a boy, in the course of which propensity, 1 must needs say, that I have found it the most easy of all to be gratified, personally and poetically. You disclaim jealousies; but I would ask, as Boswell did of Johnson, of whom could you be jealous,' of none of the living, certainly, and (taking all and all into consideration) of which of the dead? I don't like to bore you about the Scotch novels, (as they call them, though two of them are wholly English, and the rest half so,) but nothing can or could ever persuade me, since I was the first ten minutes in your company, that you are not the man. To me those novels have so much of Auld lang syne, (I was bred a canny Scott till ten years old,) "I need not say how grateful I am for your letter that I never move without them; and when I rebut I must own my ingratitude in not having writ- moved from Ravenna to Pisa, the other day, and ten to you again long ago. Since I left England, sent on my library before, they were the only books (and it is not for all the usual term of transporta- that I kept by me, although I already have them by tion,) I have scribbled to five hundred blockheads heart. on business, &c., without difficulty, though with "January 27, 1822. no great pleasure; and yet, with the notion of ad- "I delayed till now concluding, in the hope that dressing you a hundred times, in my head and al- I should have got the Pirate,' who is now under ways in my heart, I have not done what I ought to way for me, but has not yet hove in sight. hear have done. I can only account for it on the same that your daughter is married, and I suppose by principle of tremulous anxiety with which one this time you are half a grandfather-a young one, sometimes makes love to a beautiful woman of our by-the-way. I have heard great things of Mrs. own degree, with whom one is enamored in good Lockhart's personal and mental charms, and much earnest; whereas we attack a fresh colored house- good of her lord: that you may live to see as many maid without (I speak, of course, of earlier times) novel Scotts as there are Scots' novels, is the very any sentimental remorse or mitigation of our virtu- bad pun, but sincere wish of "Yours ever most affectionately, &c. purpose. ous owe to you far more than the usual obligation "P. S. Why don't you take a turn in Italy? You for the courtesies of literature and common friend-would find yourself as well known and as welship, for you went out of your way in 1817 to do me come as in the Highlands among the natives. As a service, when it required not merely kindness, for the English you would be with them as in Lonbut courage to do so; to have been recorded by you don; and I need not add, that I should be dein such a manner would have been a proud memo-lighted to see you again, which is far more than I rial at any time, but at such a time when all the shall ever feel or say for England, or (with a few world and his wife,' as the proverb goes, were trying exceptions of kith, kin, and allies') any thing to trample upon me, was something still higher to that it contains. But my heart warms to the tarmy self-esteem,-I allude to the Quarterly Review tan,' or to any thing of Scotland, which reminds of the third canto of Childe Harold, which Murray me of Aberdeen and other parts, not so far from told me was written by you, and indeed, I should the Highlands* as that town, about Invercauld and have known it without his information, as there Braemar, where I was sent to drink goat's fey in could not be two who could and would have done 1795-6, in consequence of a threatened decline after this at the time. Had it been a common criticism, the scarlet fever. But I am gossipping; so, good however eloquent or panegyrical, I should have felt night-and the gods be with your dreams! pleased, undoubtedly, and grateful, but not to the Pray present my respects to Lady Scott, who extent which the extraordinary good-heartedness of may perhaps recollect having seen me in town in the whole proceeding must induce in any mind ca- 1815. pable of such sensations. The very tardiness of "I see that one your supporters (for, like Sir this acknowledgment will, at least show that I Hildebrand, I am fond of Gullin) is a mermaid; it have not forgotten the obligation; and I can assure is my crest too, and with precisely the same curl of you that my sense of it has been out at compound tail. There's concatenation for you!-I am build interest during the delay. I shall only add one ing a little cutter at Genoa, to go a cruising in the word upon the subject, which is, that I think that summer. I know you like the sea too." you, and Jeffrey, and Leigh Hunt, were the only literary men, of numbers whom I know, (and some of whom I have served,) who dared venture even an anomymous word in my favor just then; and that of those three, I had never seen one at all-of the second much less than I desired-and that the third was under no kind of obligation to me whatever; while the other two had been actually attacked by me on a former occasion; one, indeed, with some provocation, but the other wantonly enough. So you see you have been heaping 'coals of fire,' &c., in the true gospel manner, and I can assure you that they have burnt down to my very heart. LETTER DXLIV. TO DOUGLAS KINNAIRD. "Pisa, February 6, 1822. "Try back the deep lane,' till we find a pub. lisher for the Vision; and if none such is to be found, print fifty copies at my expense, distribute "I am glad that you accepted the inscription. I them among my acquaintance, and you will soon meant to have inscribed the Foscarini' to you in- see that the booksellers will publish them, even if stead; but first, I heard that 'Cain' was thought we oppose them. That they are now afraid is natuthe least bad of the two as a composition; and, ral; but I do not see that I ought to give way on 2dly, I have abused Southey like a pickpocket, in a that account. I know nothing of Rivington's 'Renote to the Foscarini, and I recollected that he is a monstrance' by the eminent Churchman;' but I friend of yours, (though not of mine,) and that it suppose he wants a living. I once heard of a would not be the handsome thing to dedicate to one preacher at Kentish Town against Cain.' The friend any thing containing such matters about an- same outcry was raised against Priestly, Hume other. However, I'll work the Laureate before I have done with him, as soon as I can muster Bil ⚫ See note to "The Island." Gibbon, Voltaire, and all the men who dared to put blasphemous; and the very words of the Oxford tithes to the question. gentleman, Evil, be thou my good,' are from that "I have got Southey's pretended reply, to which I very poem, from the mouth of Satan; and is there am surprised that you do not allude. What re- any thing more in that of Lucifer in the Mystery? mains to be done is, to call him out. The question Cain is nothing more than a drama, not a piece of is, would he come? for, if he would not, the whole argument. If Lucifer and Cain speak as the first thing would appear ridiculous, if I were to take a murderer and the first rebel may be supposed to long and expensive journey to no purpose. speak, surely all the rest of the personages talk also according to their characters-and the stronger passions have ever been permitted to the drama. "I apply to you as one well versed in the duello, "I have even avoided introducing the Deity as in or monomachie. Of course I shall come to Eng- Scripture, (though Milton does, and not very wisely land as privately as possible, and leave it (sup- either,) but have adopted his angel as sent to Cain posing that I was the survivor) in the same manner; instead, on purpose to avoid shocking any feelings having no other object which could bring me to that on the subject by falling short of what all unin country except to settle quarrels accumulated spired men must fall short in, viz., giving an during my absence. adequate notion of the effect of the presence of "By the last post I transmitted to you a letter Jehovah. The old Mysteries introduced him libeupon some Rochdale toll business, from which rally enough, and all this is avoided in the new one. there are moneys in prospect. My agent says two The atterept to bully you, because they think it thousand pounds, but supposing it to be only one, won't succeed with me, seems to me as atrocious L or even one hundred, still they be moneys; and I attempt as ever disgraced the times. What! when have lived long enough to have an exceeding re- Gibbon's, Hume's, Priestley's, and Drummond's spect for the smallest current coin of any realm, or publishers have been allowed to rest in peace for the least sum, which, although I may not want it seventy years, are you to be singled out for a work myself, may do something for others who may need of fiction, not of history or argument? There must it more than I. be something at the bottom of this-some private They say that Knowledge is Power; '-I used enemy of your own: it is otherwise incredible. to think so; but I now know that they meant "I can only say, 'Me, me; en adsum qui feci;' money' and when Socrates declared, that all he-that any proceedings directed against you, I bez, knew was, that he knew nothing,' he merely in- may be transferred to me, who am willing, and tended to declare, that he had not a drachm in the ought, to endure them all; that if you have lost Athenian world. money by the publication, I will refund any or all "The circulars are arrived, and circulating like of the copyright; that I desire you will say that the vortices (or vortexes) of Descartes. Still I both you and Mr. Gifford remonstrated against the have a due care of the needful, and keep a look-out publication, as also Mr. Hobhouse; that I alone ahead, as my notions upon the score of moneys co-occasioned it, and I alone am the person who, incide with yours, and with all men's who have either legally or otherwise, should bear the burden. lived to see that every guinea is a philosopher's If they prosecute, I will come to England—that is, stone, or at least his touch-stone. You will doubt if by meeting it in my own person, I can save me the less, when I pronounce my firm belief, that yours. Let me know. You shan't suffer for me, if Cash is Virtue. I can help it. Make any use of this letter you "I cannot reproach myself with much expendi- please. Yours ever, &c. ture: my only extra expense (and it is more than I "P. S. I write to you about all this row of bad have spent upon myself) being a loan of two passions and absurdities, with the summer moon hundred and fifty pounds to Hunt; and fifty (for here our winter is clearer than your dog-days) pounds' worth of furniture which I have bought for lighting the winding Arno, with all her buildings him; and a boat which I am building for myself and bridges,-so quiet and still!-What nothings at Genoa, which will cost about a hundred pounds are we before the least of these stars!" You must be my second, and, as such, I wish to consult you. more. "But to return. I am determined to have all the moneys I can, whether by my own funds, or succession, or lawsuit, or MSS., or any lawful means whatever. "I will pay (though with the sincerest reluctance) my remaining creditors, and every man of law, by instalments from the award of the arbitrators. "I recommend to you the notice in Mr. Hanson's letter, on the demand of moneys for the Rochdale tolls. "Above all, I recommend my interests to your honorable worship. "Recollect, too, that I expect some moneys for the various MSS., (no matter what ;) and, in short, 'Rem, quocunque modo, Rem!'-the noble feeling of cupidity grows upon us with our years. Yours ever, &c." 66 LETTER DXLV. TO MR. MURRAY. "Pisa, Feb. 8, 1822. LETTER DXLVI. TO MR. MOORE. "Pisa, Feb. 19, 1922. "I am rather surprised not to have had an answer to my letter and packets. Lady Noel is dead, and it is not impossible that I may have to go to England to settle the division of the Wentworth property, and what portion Lady B. is to have of it; all which was left undecided by the articles of separation. But I hope not, if it can be done without,-and I have written to Sir Francis Bur dett to be my referee, as he knows the property. "Continue to address here, as I shall not go if I can avoid it-at least, not on that account. But I may on another; for I wrote to Douglas Kinnaird to convey a message of invitation to Mr. Southey to meet me, either in England, or (as less liable to interruption) on the coast of France. This was about a fortnight ago, and I have not yet had time to have the answer. However, you shall have due notice therefore continue to address to Pisa. "Attacks upon me were to be expected, but I perceive one upon you in the papers, which I confess that I did not expect. How, or in what manner, you can be considered responsible for what I pub-I lish, I am at a loss to conceive. "If Cain' be 'blasphemous,' Paradise Lost is 66 My agents and trustees have written to me to desire that I would take the name directly, so that am yours very truly and affectionately, "NOEL BYRON. "P. S. I have had no news from England except on business; and merely know, from some abuse in My lawyers are taking out a license for the name that faithful ex and de-tractor, Galignani, that the and arms, which it seems I am to endue. clergy are up against 'Cain.' There is (if I am! By another, and indirect quarter, hear that not mistaken) some good church preferment on the Cain has been pirated, and that the Chancellor Wentworth estates; and I will show them what a has refused to give Murray any redress. Also, that good Christian I am by patronising and preferring G. R.* (your friend Ben'), has expressed great the most pious of their order, should opportunity personal indignation at the said poem. All this is curious enough, I think,-after allowing Priestly, occur. "M. and I am but little in correspondence, and I Hume, and Gibbon, and Bolingbroke, and Voltaire know nothing of literary matters at present. I to be published, without depriving the booksellers have been writing on business only lately. What of their rights. I heard from Rome a day or two are you about? Be assured that there is no such ago, and, with what truth I know not, that * * * coalition as you apprehend." "Yours, &c " LETTER DXLVII. TO MR. MOORE. "Pisa, Feb. 20, 1822.* "Your letter arrived since I wrote the enclosed. LETTER DXLIX. TO MR. MOORE. "Pisa, March 1, 1822. "As I still have no news of my Werner,' &c., It is not likely, as I have appointed agents and packet, sent to you on the 29th of January, I conarbitrators for the Noel estates, that I should pro- know whether it has not miscarried. As it was tinue to bore you, (for the fifth time, I believe,) to ceed to England on that account,-though I may fairly copied out, it will be vexatious if it be lost. At any rate, continue Indeed, I insured it at the post-office to make you to address here till you hear further from me. them take more care, and directed it regularly to I could wish you still to arrange for me, either with upon another, within stated. a London or Paris publisher, for the things, &c. you at Paris. shall not quarrel with any arrangement you may from Blackwood's Magazine, in which it is said "In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract please to make. "I have appointed Sir Francis Burdett my arbi- and I are no poets. With regard to one of us, 1 that there are people who have discovered that you trator to decide on Lady Byron's allowance out of know that this north-west passage to my magnetic the Noel estates, which are estimated at seven thousand a year, and rents very well paid, a rare leave them the full benefit of their penetration. I pole had been long discovered by some sages and I thing at this time. It is, however, owing to their think, as Gibbon says of his History, that, perconsisting chiefly in pasture lands, and therefore haps a hundred years hence it may still continue to less affected by corn bills, &c., than properties in be abused.' However, I am far from pretending to tillage. compete or compare with that illustrious literary character. 'Believe me yours ever most affectionately, "Between my own property in the funds, and my wife's in land, I do not know which side to cry out on in politics. "There is nothing against the immortality of the soul in Cain' that I recollect. I hold no such opinions; but, in a drama, the first rebel and the first murderer must be made to talk according to their characters. However, the parsons are all preaching at it, from Kentish Town and Oxford to Pisa;-the scoundrels of priests, who do more harm to religion than all the infidels that ever forgot their catehism. "I have not seen Lady Noel's death announced in Galignani.-How is that?" LETTER DXLVIII. TO MR. MOORE. "Pisa, Feb. 28, 1822. 1 begin to think that the packet (a heavy one) of five acts of Werner,' &c., can hardly have reached you, for your letter of last week (which I answered) did not allude to it, and yet I insured it at the post-office here. "But, with regard to you, I thought that you had always been allowed to be a poet, even by the stupid as well as the envious-a bad one, to be sure immoral, florid, Asiatic, and diabolically popular, therefore, has to me all the grace of novelty, as -but still always a poet, mem, con. This discovery, well as of consolation (according to Rochefoucault) to find myself no-poetized in such good company. I am content to err with Plato;' and can assure you very sincerely, that I would rather be received "As for Southey; the answer to my proposition of a meeting is not yet come. I sent the message, with a short note to him, through Douglas Kinnaird, and Douglas's response is not arrived. If he accepts, I shall have to go to England; but if not, I do not think the Noel affairs will take me there, as the arbitrators can settle them without my presence, and there do not seem to be any difficulties. The license for the new name and armorial bearings will be taken out by the regular application, in such cases, to the Crown, and sent to me. "Is there a hope of seeing you in Italy again ever? What are you doing?-bored by me, I know; but I have explained why before. I have no correspondence now with London, except through "I have no direct news from England, except on relations and lawyers, and one or two friends. My the Noel business, which is proceeding quietly, as I greatest friend, Lord Clare, is at Rome: we met on have appointed a gentleman (Sir F. Burdett) for the road, and our meeting was quite sentimentalmy arbitrator. They, too, have said that they will really pathetic on both sides. I have always loved recall the lawyer whom they had chosen, and will him better than any male thing in the world. name a gentleman too. This is better, as the arrangement of the estates and of Lady's B.'s allowance will thus be settled without quibbling. lows.] • The preceding letter came enclosed in this. [The preceding was enclosed in that which fol • The King. 948 LETTER DL. TO MR MOORE. "Pisa, March 4, 1822. "Do not let me be misunderstood, however. It you speak your own opinions, they ever had, and But if you will have, the greatest weight with me. merely echo the 'monde,' (and it is difficult not to do so, being in its favor and its ferment,) I can "Since I wrote the enclosed, I have waited only regret that you should ever repeat any thing to another post, and now have your answer acknow-which I cannot pay attention. "But I am prosing. The gods go with you, and ledging the arrival of the packet-a troublesome one, I fear, to you in more ways than one, both as much immortality of all kinds as may suit your present and all other existence. from weight external and internal. "Yours, &c." LETTER DLI. TO MR. MOORE. “Pisa, March 6, 1521 "The unpublished things in your hands, in Douglas K.'s, and Mr. John Murray's, are, Heaven and Earth, a lyrical kind of Drama upon the Deluge, &c.;'- Werner,' now with you-a translation of the first canto of the Morgante Maggiore;-ditto of an Episode in Dante;-some stanzas to the Po, June 1st, 1819;-Hints from Horace, written in 1811, but a good deal, since, to be omitted; several prose things, which may, perhaps, as "The enclosed letter from Murray hath melted well remain unpublished;- The Vision, &c., of me; though I think it is against his own interest to Quevedo Redivivus' in verse. "Here you see is 'more matter for a May morn-wish that I should continue his connexion. You And pray, ing; but how much of this can be published is for may, therefore, send him the packet of Werner, consideration. The Quevedo (one of my best in which will save you all further trouble. At least, say so-for I feel that line) has appalled the Row already, and must can you forgive me for the bore and expense I have The new already put upon you? take its chance at Paris, if at all. Mystery is less speculative than Cain,' and very ashamed of having given you so much for such pious; besides, it is chiefly lyrical. The Morgante nonsense. is the best translation that ever was or will be made; and the rest are-whatever you please to think them. "I am sorry you think Werner even approaching to any fitness for the stage, which with my notions upon it, is very far from my present object. With regard to the publication, I have already explained a that I have no exorbitant expectations of either fame or profit in the present instances; but wish them published because they are written; which is the common feeling of all scribblers. "The fact is, I cannot keep my resentmenti, that all the world are at Murray on my account, I though violent enough in their onset. Besides, CW neither can nor ought to leave him; unless, as I "I have had no other news from England except really thought, it were better for him that I should Though I have sickened you with letter from Barry Cornwall, the bard, and my cl "Yours, &c. schoolfellow. letters lately, believe me "P. S. In your last letter you say, speaking of Shelley, that you would almost prefer the damning "With respect to Religion,' can I never con- bigot to the annihilating infidel.' Shelley beceres vince you that I have no such opinions as the in immortality, however-but this by-the-way. De characters in that drama, which seems to have you remember Frederick the Great's answer to the frightened every body i Yet they are nothing to remonstrance of the villagers, whose curate preached the expressions in Goethe's Faust, (which are ten against the eternity of hell's torments? times hardier,) and not a whit more bold than those thus:-If my faithful subjects of Schrauserhausof Milton's Satan. My ideas of a character may sen prefer being eternally damned, let them!' run away with me: like all imaginative men, I, of course, embody myself with the character while I draw it, but not a moment after the pen is from off the paper. "I am no enemy to religion, but the contrary. As a proof, I am educating my natural daughter a strict Catholic in a convent of Romagna, for I think people can never have enough of religion, if they are to have any. I incline, myself, very much to the Catholic doctrines; but if I am to write a drama, I must make my characters speak as I conceive them likely to argue. It was "Of the two, I should think the long sleep better than the agonized vigil. But men, miserable as they are, cling so to any thing like life, that they probably would prefer damnation to quiet. Besides, they think themselves so important in the creation, that nothing less can satisfy their pride-the insects!" LETTER DLII. TO MR. MURRAY. Pin, March 6, 1322. "As to poor Shelley, who is another bugbear to you and the world, he is, to my knowledge, the least selfish and the mildest of men-a man who "You will long ago have received a letter from has made more sacrifices of his fortune and feelings With his me, (or should,) declaring my opinion of the treatfor others than any I ever heard of. speculative opinions I have nothing in common, ment you have met with about the recent publier tion. I think it disgraceful to those who have pernor desire to have. "The truth is, my dear Moore, you live near the secuted you. I make peace with you, though our stove of society, where you are unavoidably influ-war was for other reasons than this same controI have written to Moore by this post to for I shall not I did so once-versy. enced by its heat and its vapors. and too much-and enough to give a color to my ward to you the tragedy of 'Werner.' whole future existence. As my success in society make or propose any present bargain about it a was not inconsiderable, I am surely not a prejudiced the new Mystery till we see if they succeed. If they judge upon the subject, unless in its favor; but I don't sell, (which is not unlikely,) you shan't par; think it, as now constituted, fatal to all great and I suppose this is fair play, if you choose to risk original undertakings of every kind. I never courted it. "Bartolini, the celebrated sculptor, wrote to me it then, when I was young and high in blood, and 'curled darlings;' and do you think I to desire to take my bust: 1 consented, on cond one of its would do so now, when I am living in a clearer at- tion that he also took that of the Countess Guicc mosphere? One thing only might lead me back to oli., He has taken both, and I think it will be it, and that is, to try once more if I could do any allowed that hers is beautiful. I shall make good in politics; but not in the petty politics I see present of them both, to show that I don't beat malice, and as a compensation for the trouble and now preying upon our miserable country. you a |