This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...in the acquisition of it were universal. No man had every scene of the countries over which he passed, and the history of every action of which it had been the theatre, so completely and so forcibly in his mind; no man made, in so short a time, so rapid and so occurate progress in the acquisition of so many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...in the acquisition of it were universal. No man had every scene of the countries over which he passed, and the history of every action of which it had been the theatre, so completely and so forcibly in his mind; no man made, in so short a time, so rapid and so occurate progress in the acquisition of so many and so varied languages; and no man knew so well, or described so truly the national differences in costume, in form, in manners, in government, or in happiness and enjoyment.Throughout the poems of Lord Byron, and in the notes which are appended to those poems, there are more materials for an accurate account of the state of the countries which he visited, at the time when he visited them, than are to be found in many heavy books expressly upon the subject. Prejudice alone can ascribe to him, as the cause of his having travelled, the fact of being weary of societyat home, and folly only can imagine that he went from one place to another, either because he was tired of the people, or because the people were tired of him. At home or abroad, wherever he went, his society was courted by all who were able to appreciate his merits; and it was this general power--we had almost said general habit, of pleasing and being pleased, that stirred up against him the hostility of those whom his brilliant endowments, and his cheerfull and fascinating manners, cast completely into the shade. Instead of being, as was vulgarly supposed, a misanthrope, and one who was harsh and cruel, in either his actions or his words, he was remarkable for the delicacy with which he repressed even impertinence. This faculty may be illustrated by the following anecdote: --A gentleman of the sister kingdom, one of those industrious persons who can engage to do any thing, and who..
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