14. this a plight? "Scaramouch," the "Sganarelle" ofMoli�re's _Festin de Pierre_, was a favourite character of JosephGrimaldi. Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, And wonderful beyond all wondrous measure; 'T is pity though, in this sublime world, that Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure;[x] Few mortals know what end they would be at, But whether Glory, Power, or Love, or Treasure, The path is through perplexing ways, and when The goal is gained, we die, you know--and then----. Did he (who in his drivelling sexagenary dotage hadnot the courage to survive his Nurse--for what else was a wife to him athis time of life?) she was perfect past all parallel-- Of any modern female saint's comparison; So far above the cunning powers of Hell, Her Guardian Angel had given up his garrison; Even her minutest motions went as well As those of the best time-piece made by Harrison:[32] In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar![33]. "As I have no wish to have mysteries, I merely prohibit the _publication_ of these stanzas in _print_, for the reasons of fairness mentioned; but I by no means wish _him not_ to _know_ their existence or their tenor, nor my intentions as to himself: he has shown no forbearance, and he shall find none. 153-181.]. I sent it in a letter to the Editor, Who thanked me duly by return of post-- I'm for a handsome article his creditor; Yet, if my gentle Muse he please to roast, And break a promise after having made it her, Denying the receipt of what it cost, And smear his page with gall instead of honey, All I can say is--that he had the money. All Rights Reserved. The pleasant scandal which arose next day, The nine days' wonder which was brought to light, And how Alfonso sued for a divorce, Were in the English newspapers, of course. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. 't is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour;[92] For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture and worse bust. They blush, and we believe them; at least I Have always done so; 't is of no great use, In any case, attempting a reply, For then their eloquence grows quite profuse; And when at length they're out of breath, they sigh, And cast their languid eyes down, and let loose A tear or two, and then we make it up; And then--and then--and then--sit down and sup. 465-470; and letter toMurray, August 24, 1819, ibid., p. 348: "I wrote to you by last post,enclosing a buffooning letter for publication, addressed to the buffoonRoberts, who has thought proper to tie a canister to his own tail. A humorous and satiric narrative poem based on the legend of Don Juan. Vernon,[16] the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, Evil and good, have had their tithe of talk, And filled their sign-posts then, like Wellesley now; He has tried every thing and succeeded in nothing; and he may perhaps finish as a Lawyer without practice, as he has already been occasionally an orator without an audience, if not soon cut short in his career. Subscribe for ad free access All things that have been born were born to die, And flesh (which Death mows down to hay) is grass; You've passed your youth not so unpleasantly, And if you had it o'er again--'t would pass-- So thank your stars that matters are no worse, And read your Bible, sir, and mind your purse.". No doubt this patience, when the world is damning us, Is philosophic in our former friends; 'T is also pleasant to be deemed magnanimous, The more so in obtaining our own ends; And what the lawyers call a _"malus animus"_ Conduct like this by no means comprehends: Revenge in person's certainly no virtue, But then 't is not _my_ fault, if _others_ hurt you. Such love is innocent, and may exist Between young persons without any danger. It is genuinely lighthearted and entertaining, while at the same time explores dark Gothic undertones and themes.--Submitted by Kamryn Lewis. Frankenstein: the Novel; The Victorian Age. where's my pocket-handkerchief?". Have you been at a London_ball_, and not known a Lobster-_sallad?_"--[H.]--[_Revise._] ]. Don Juan is a famous legendary character who has featured in many literary and musical works. Oh Doubt!—if thou be'st Doubt, for which some take thee, But which I doubt extremely—thou sole prism. Julia had honour, virtue, truth, and love For Don Alfonso; and she inly swore, By all the vows below to Powers above, She never would disgrace the ring she wore, Nor leave a wish which wisdom might reprove; And while she pondered this, besides much more, One hand on Juan's carelessly was thrown, Quite by mistake--she thought it was her own; Unconsciously she leaned upon the other, Which played within the tangles of her hair; And to contend with thoughts she could not smother She seemed by the distraction of her air. Her memory was a mine: she knew by heart All Calderon and greater part of Lop�; So, that if any actor missed his part, She could have served him for the prompter's copy; For her Feinagle's were an useless art,[26] And he himself obliged to shut up shop--he Could never make a memory so fine as That which adorned the brain of Donna Inez. in the_British Review_ (No. Young Juan now was sixteen years of age, Tall, handsome, slender, but well knit: he seemed Active, though not so sprightly, as a page; And everybody but his mother deemed Him almost man; but she flew in a rage[45] And bit her lips (for else she might have screamed) If any said so--for to be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. Trans._, iv. I have denied this long ago--but, even were it true,Locke tells us, that all his knowledge of human understanding wasderived from studying his own mind. Julia said nought; though all the while there rose A ready answer, which at once enables A matron, who her husband's foible knows, By a few timely words to turn the tables, Which, if it does not silence, still must pose,-- Even if it should comprise a pack of fables; 'T is to retort with firmness, and when he Suspects with _one_, do you reproach with _three_. 70, 71). "Bully in Senates, skulker in the Field,[*A] The Adulterer's advocate when duly feed, The libeller's gratis Counsel, dirty shield Which Law affords to many a dirty deed; A wondrous Warrior against those who yield-- A rod to Weakness, to the brave a reed-- The People's sycophant, the Prince's foe, And serving him the more by being so. [20] [Antoine Pierre Joseph Barnave, born 1761, was appointed Presidentof the Constituent Assembly in 1790. But Inez was so anxious, and so clear Of sight, that I must think, on this occasion, She had some other motive much more near For leaving Juan to this new temptation, But what that motive was, I sha'n't say here; Perhaps to finish Juan's education, Perhaps to open Don Alfonso's eyes, In case he thought his wife too great a prize. (In a letter to Byron, dated February 18, 1817, Murray speaks of acertain B. [_An Historical, Philosophical and PracticalEssay on the Human Hair_, was published by Alexander Rowland, jun., in1816. What is the end of Fame? Count O'Reilly did not takeAlgiers--but Algiers very nearly took him: he and his army and fleetretreated with great loss, and not much credit, from before that city,in the year 1775. let me have a glass of water.) "Mr. Hazlitt accuses me further of delineating _myself_ in _ChildeHarold_, etc., etc. Brave men were living before Agamemnon[22] And since, exceeding valorous and sage, A good deal like him too, though quite the same none; But then they shone not on the poet's page, And so have been forgotten:--I condemn none, But can't find any in the present age Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one); So, as I said, I'll take my friend Don Juan. Sermons he read, and lectures he endured, And homilies, and lives of all the saints; To Jerome and to Chrysostom inured, He did not take such studies for restraints; But how Faith is acquired, and then insured, So well not one of the aforesaid paints As Saint Augustine in his fine Confessions, Which make the reader envy his transgressions.[44]. I thought their questions singular,frivolous, and somewhat importunate, if not impertinent: but what shouldI have thought, if I had known that they were sent to provide proofs ofmy insanity?" Is it for this, whate'er my suitors were, I favoured none--nay, was almost uncivil? I cast thee on the waters--go thy ways! Oh Sin! He pored upon the leaves, and on the flowers, And heard a voice in all the winds; and then He thought of wood-nymphs and immortal bowers, And how the goddesses came down to men: He missed the pathway, he forgot the hours, And when he looked upon his watch again, He found how much old Time had been a winner-- He also found that he had lost his dinner. xix. insert the following stanzas, 'But Donna Inez,' etc."--B. Jean Baptiste, Baron de Clootz (better known as Anacharsis Clootz), wasborn in 1755. Here is where you find links to related content on this site or other sites, Now Lust is a serious passion, and cannotbe excited by the ludicrous."--[B.] "], {16}[25] [In his reply to _Blackwood_ (No. Julia was sent into a convent--she Grieved--but, perhaps, her feelings may be better[ak] Shown in the following copy of her Letter:--. 'T was surely very wrong in Juan's mother To leave together this imprudent pair,[t] She who for many years had watched her son so-- I'm very certain _mine_ would not have done so. Now Donna Inez had, with all her merit, A great opinion of her own good qualities; Neglect, indeed, requires a saint to bear it, And such, indeed, she was in her moralities;[c] But then she had a devil of a spirit, And sometimes mixed up fancies with realities, And let few opportunities escape Of getting her liege lord into a scrape. The Ode alluded to is the famous [Greek: Phai/netai/ moi k�nos i(/sostheisin, k.t.l. We meet again, if we should understand Each other; and if not, I shall not try Your patience further than by this short sample-- 'T were well if others followed my example. Dare you suspect me, whom the thought would kill? ix. J�r�me Petion de Villeneuve, born 1753, Mayor of Paris in 1791, took anactive part in the imprisonment of the king. M.], [84] ["Que les hommes sont heureux d'aller � la guerre, d'exposer leurvie, de se livrer � l'enthousiasme de l'honneur et du danger! But not a servant stirred to aid the fight. ], {21}[d] _Wishing each other damned, divorced, or dead_.--[MS. line 2,_Poetical Works_, ii. Being suspected byRobespierre, he was condemned to death, March 24, 1794. The duchess, through her agent, distrained, but wasunable to recover the debt. 14, pp. Don Juan: Text of the Poem. How beautiful she looked! In another letter to John M.B. Do pray undo the bolt a little faster-- They're on the stair just now, and in a crack Will all be here; perhaps he yet may fly-- Surely the window's not so _very_ high!". But the wretch is in his grave," etc.-Letterto Murray, June 7, 1819, _Letters_, 1900, iv. But for the present, gentle reader! Now, Don Alfonso entering, but alone, Closed the oration of the trusty maid: She loitered, and he told her to be gone, An order somewhat sullenly obeyed; However, present remedy was none, And no great good seemed answered if she staid: Regarding both with slow and sidelong view, She snuffed the candle, curtsied, and withdrew. In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women,--he Who has not seen it will be much to pity, So says the proverb[24]--and I quite agree; Of all the Spanish towns is none more pretty, Cadiz perhaps--but that you soon may see;-- Don Juan's parents lived beside the river, A noble stream, and called the Guadalquivir. Perhaps he willadmit that, with regard to the latter, one of the most intimate familyconnections of the Emperor may be equally capable of deciding on thesubject. ], {17}[a] _Little she spoke--but what she spoke was Attic all_, _With words and deeds in perfect unanimity._--[MS.], [27] [Sir Samuel Romilly, born 1757, lost his wife on the 29th ofOctober, and committed suicide on the 2nd of November, 1818.--"But therewill come a day of reckoning, even if I should not live to see it. ], [89] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto III. x. ed. This, too, was a sealed book to little Juan-- I can't but say that his mamma was right, If such an education was the true one. Famously described as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, the poet Lord Byron caused a sensation when he published the first instalments of Don Juan in 1819. To secure this union,King Cheops is said, by Herodotus, to have employed three hundred andsixty thousand of his subjects for twenty years in raising over the'angusta domus' destined to hold his remains, a pile of stone equal inweight to six millions of tons, which is just three times that of thevast Breakwater thrown across Plymouth Sound; and, to render thisprecious dust still more secure, the narrow chamber was made accessibleonly by small, intricate passages, obstructed by stones of an enormousweight, and so carefully closed externally as not to beperceptible.--Yet, how vain are all the precautions of man! Fraught with this fine intention, and well fenced In mail of proof--her purity of soul[51]-- She, for the future, of her strength convinced, And that her honour was a rock, or mole,[n] Exceeding sagely from that hour dispensed With any kind of troublesome control; But whether Julia to the task was equal Is that which must be mentioned in the sequel. 324]--when he was bringing desolation... on my household gods--did he think that, in less than three years, anatural event--a severe, domestic, but an unexpected and commoncalamity--would lay his carcase in a cross-road, or stamp his name in averdict of Lunacy! Cantos 1 & 2 of Lord Byron's Don Juan, annoted and illustrated by Peter Gallagher. ], [37] ["This is so very pointed."--[?Hobhouse.] what's his lineage? 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