Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron

Ali Pacha's barbarity. Affecting tale. Real incident in 'The Giaour.'
Albanian guards. The Doctor in alarm. Lord Byron's ghost.
He prophesies that he should die in Greece. Lord Byron and

53-62

62-68

68-74

74-83

the Drury Lane Committee. Theatricals. Obstacles to writing

for the stage. Kemble; Mrs. Siddons; Munden; Shakspeare;

Alfieri; Maturin; Miss Baillie. Modern sensitiveness. Marino

Faliero.' Ugo Foscolo

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83-97

Ada. Singular coincidence. Ideas on education. Ada's birth-day.
Lord Byron's melancholy and superstition. Birth-day fatalities.
Death of Polidori. "The Vampyre'—foundation of the story Lord

Byron's; 'Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.' Query to Sir

Humphrey Davy. Scott, Rousseau, and Goëthe. Fulfilment of

Mrs. Williams's prophecy. Unlucky numbers

Lord Byron's epigrams. His hospitality. Advances towards a

reconciliation with Lady Byron. Death of Lady Noel. Lord

Byron's remarks on lyric poetry; Coleridge, Moore, and Campbell.

Ode on Sir John Moore's funeral

97-104

104-114

Swimming across the Hellespont. Adventures at Brighton and Ve-

nice. Marino Faliero' and 'The Two Foscari.' Hogg the Ettrick

Shepherd's prediction. Failure of Marino Faliero :' Lord Byron's

epigram on the occasion. Louis Dix-huit's translation: Jeffrey's

critique. Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews. Subjects for tragedies 114-124

Barry Cornwall. Cain.' Gessner's Death of Abel.' Hobhouse's

opinion of Cain.' Lord B.'s defence of that poem. Goethe's

'Faust.' Letter to Murray respecting 'Cain.' Bacchanalian song.

Private theatricals. The Definite Article. A play proposed.

The Guiccioli's Veto

124-135

Merits of actors. Dowton and Kean. Kean's Richard the

Third and Sir Giles Overreach. Garrick's dressing of Othello.

Kemble's costume; his Coriolanus and Cato: his colloquial

blank verse. Improvisatori: Theodore Hook: Sgricci; his

'Iphigenia.' Mrs. Siddons and Miss O'Neill. The elephant's

legs. Stage courtship. Lamb's Specimens. Plagiarisms. Faust' 135-142

Lord Byron's' Hours of Idleness.' The ineffectual potation. Se-

verity of reviewers. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.'

Jeffrey and Moore. Moore's challenge to Lord Byron; mis-

carriage of the letter; subsequent friendship. Character of

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Mr. Southey's letter in The Literary Gazette.' Lord Byron's

anxiety and anger. 'Vision of Judgment.'

Southey's critique

on 'Foliage.' Shelley's Aeos. The Deformed Transformed:"

Shelley's opinion thereon. Southey's epitaph. Heaven and

Earth' Murray's refusal to print. Cain,' and the Lord Chan-

cellor. Loves of the Angels' and 'Lalla Rookh.' Projected

The Prophecy of Dante.'

completion of Heaven and Earth.'

Taaffe and Cary.

Swedenborg's disci-

The greatest compli-

Italian enthusiasm in favour of Dante

Shelley's opinion that the study of Dante is unfavourable to

writing: the difficulty of translating him:

Lord Byron and The Prophecy of Dante.'

ples. Translations of Lord Byron's works.

ment ever paid him. Milton and the cat's back. Milton and

Shakspeare redivivi. Lord Byron's opinion of Childe Harold,'

and the inequality of his writings. Epics. Southey's Joan of

Arc;' Curse of Kehama,' &c. Don Juan' and the Iliad. Dr.

Johnson's censorship defied. Intended plan of Don Juan:' ad-

ventures and death of the hero

Murray's plea the Cookery-book his

his anxiety for Lord Byron's fame.

ship. Murray's offer for 'Don Juan,'

Juan,' and its cause. The bishops.

Price given for Third Canto of

and The Prisoner of Chillon'

sheet-anchor: real cause of

Douglas Kinnaird's friend-

per Canto. Piracy of Don

Murray's dislike to Shelley.

Childe Harold,' 'Manfred,'

The Quarterly Review' and its bullies. A literary set-to. Murray

and Galignani. Murray's purchase of 'Cain,'' The Two Foscari,'

and Sardanapalus.' The deed. Reconciliation with Murray.

'Cain,' and the Anti-constitutional Society. Murray, Lord

Byron, and the Navy List.' Last book of Lord Byron's pub-

lished by Murray. Opening fire of The Quarterly.'

Wanderer.' Coleridge's Christabel,' and Scott's Metrical

Tales.' Sir W. Scott's talents at recitation. An English October

day. Unconscious plagiarism. Kubla Khan.' Madame de Staël.

Coleridge's Memoirs. Grammont. Alfieri's Life, and Lord B.'s

Confessions. Coleridge's want of identity. Poets in 1795 . . . 169–176

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Intended Auto da fé. Priestly charity. Duchess of Lucca. Lord

Guilford. Grand Duke of Tuscany. Intended rescue; escape

of the victim. Madame de Staël and the opposition leaders in

England: her ultraisms. Brummell. Reported double marriage;

Baron Auguste and Miss Millbank; Lord B. and the Duchess of

Broglie. Madame de Staël's conversational powers. 'Glenarvon.'

Madame de Staël's amiable heart. Women, and Opera figurantes:

pirouetting common to both. Napoleon and Madame de Staël.

Lord B.'s opinion of Napoleon and of his exit. Madame de Staël's

historical omission. Rocca

. 176-183

Complaint against the East India Company. Lord B.'s liberality.

Balloons and Horace. Steam. Philosophical systems. Romances.

Lewis's 'Monk' its groundwork. Secret of Walter Scott's in-

spiration. The Bleeding Nun.' Ghost stories: the haunted

room at Manheim; Mina and the passing-bell. Lewis and

Matthias. Abellino.' 'Pizarro' and Sheridan. "The Castle

Spectre' in Drury Lane. Lord B.'s sketch of Sheridan. The

age of companiability. Monk Lewis and his brother's ghost.

Madame de Staël, Lewis, and the Slave Trade. A fatal emetic 183-192

Imputed plagiarisms. A dose of Wordsworth physic. Shelley's

Peter Bell's ass, and the family

admiration of Wordsworth.

circle. The Republican trio. Comparisons. The Botany Bay

Eclogue, the Panegyric of Martin the Regicide, and 'Wat Tyler,'

versus the Laureate odes and the Waterloo eulogium. The par

nobile mortally wounded. Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd's Poetic

Mirror.' The Rejected Addresses.' Bowles: Coleridge's praise

of him inexplicable. Bowles's good fellowship: his Madeira

woods. Pope's Letters to Martha Blount. The evil attending a

puninable name. Lord B.'s partiality to Johnson's Lives of the

Poets. No monument to Pope in Poet's Corner: the reason.

Milton's name in jeopardy. Voltaire's tomb blocked up. Identity

of a great poet and a religious man maintained

Walter Scott's Novels. Rarity of novelty. Plagiarisms. Claims
of Shakspeare and Sheridan. A good memory sometimes a
misfortune. Lord Byron's partiality to W. Scott's novels.

192-197

Scott, the great Unknown: two anecdotes in proof. Scott's prose

fatal to his poetry: his versatility. Halidon Hill.? Charla-

tanism in writing incognito. Junius: Sir Philip Francis. His

conjugal felicity and marital affection. Warren Hastings. Pur-

suits of Literature.' Monk Lewis and Walter Scott. The Fire-

King' and' Will Jones.' Walter Scott's obligation to Coleridge.

His freedom from jealousy

Rogers ycleped a Nestor and an Argonaut. Rogers and the Cata-
combs. Lady Morgan's Italy.' Immortality of The Pleasures
of Memory.' 'Jacqueline' versus Lara.' Rogers too fastidious
as to his fame. Grand end of all poetry. Lord Byron's 'Cor-
sair.' Love and poets: Mrs. and Shelley; Miss Stafford
and Crebillon. Rogers's dinners and Lady Holland. Elegant
orientalisms. Poetical oscillation. Rogers's sensitiveness. Spots
in the sun. Rogers's epigrammatic talent.
Parson N*tt, the would-be Bishop. Warburton's 'Legation of Moses'
no authority. Poets and penknives. Lord Byron's return from
Greece in 1812; attachment to the Morea; Second Canto of
Childe Harold.' Lady Jersey. Brummell. A hot-pressed dar-

ling. The Corsair.' Polidori. The four trials. An adventure.

Love in high life. A rupture. Female espionage: the disguise:

Stanzas

a scene.

Imputed ingratitude towards a certain personage; defence. Pre-

sentation. Unmeaning compliments from the politest man in the

world. The Irish Avatara. Lord Edward Fitzgerald; his adven-

tures; Ca-ira. The O'Connors. Fate of Lord Edward Fitz-

gerald

Query on a line in

Beppo: answer. A novel.

Florence and