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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...He talks of her favourite dress being dimity (which is the case), 'dimity' rhyming very comically with 'sublimity;' and the conclusion of one stanza is, ' I hate a dumpy woman, ' meaning Lady B. again. This would disgust the public beyond endurance. There is also a systematized profligacy running through it ...
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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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...He talks of her favourite dress being dimity (which is the case), 'dimity' rhyming very comically with 'sublimity;' and the conclusion of one stanza is, ' I hate a dumpy woman, ' meaning Lady B. again. This would disgust the public beyond endurance. There is also a systematized profligacy running through it which would not be borne. Hobhouse has undertaken the delicate task of letting him know our joint opinions." "April 3Oth. Murray writes to me that Hob-house has received another letter from Lord Byron, peremptorily insisting on the publication of ' Don Juan.' But they have again remonstrated. The murder, however, will out some time or other."1 The remonstrances of his " cursed puritanical committee," as Lord Byron called them, were however in vain. He would hear of no omission or curtailment, with the exception of a passage referring to Lord Castlereagh, and one other.1 Mr. Frere always regarded Byron's inflexibility on this point as a great misfortune to English literature. Some of the passages in " Don Juan " he considered equal to anything ever written by one whom he placed in the first rank of modern English poets. The passages which formed the grounds of his objection to the publication of the poem as it stands, were, in his opinion, no less poetical than moral blemishes; and would probably never have been written, and certainly never published had Byron been in his natural frame of mind, and among real friends in his own country, instead of writing and publishing in a state of unnatural excitement, amid such companionship as surrounded him at Venice. 1 " Moore's Journals and Correspondence," vol. ii. pp. 266 and 285. During 1818-19, Mr. Frere seems to have devoted much of his time to the translations, by which, probably, rather than by...
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