ence, memoranda, and conversation, rarely equalled in literary history for extent and variety of talent.

After all, it must not be forgotten that the life and writings of this great poet present a melancholy instance of

"Talents made

Haply for high and pure designs;
But oft, like Israel's incense, laid
Upon unholy, earthly, shrines."

GEORGE GORDON BYRON was born in Holles-street, London, on the twentysecond of January, 1788. Shortly afterwards he went to reside with his mother, at Aberdeen, where he remained till his succession to the title, in 1798. He was placed at Dr. Glennie's school at Dulwich in 1799, whence he was removed to Harrow in 1801. In his holidays of 1803 he formed the attachment to Miss Chaworth, which had such an influence on his futnre destiny. He kept terms at

Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1805 to 1808. In 1806 he printed for private circulation his first volume of Poems; and, in 1807, published the HOURS OF IDLENESS. In 1808 he took possession of Newstead. In 1809 he attained his majority, took his seat in the House of Lords, and published ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS.

In the same year he set out on his first tour; and after visiting Portugal, Spain, Greece, Asia Minor, &c. returned. to England in 1811. Soon after his return he lost his mother. In 1812 he published CHILDE HAROLD, Cantos I. and II. which was followed, in 1813, by THE GIAOUR, and THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS; and, in 1814, by THE CORSAIR, and LARA. In 1815 he married; and in 1816 his daughter Ada was born, and the separation took place after which event he left England for the last time, and

passing through the Netherlands, the Rhine Country, and Switzerland, he took In this year

up his residence at Venice. In this he published THE SIEGE OF CORINTH, PARISINA, THE PRISONER OF CHILLON, and the third Canto of CHILDE HAROLD. In 1817 he made an excursion to Rome, in company with Mr. Hobhouse, and published MANFRED, and THE LAMENT OF TASSO. In 1818 he published the Fourth, and last, Canto of CHILDE HAROLD, and BEPPO: in 1819, Mazeppa, and DON JUAN, Cantos I. and II.: in 1820, MARINO FALIERO: in 1821, SARDANAPALUS, THE TWO FOSCARI, CAIN, THE PROPHECY OF DANTE, and the third, fourth, and fifth Cantos of DON JUAN : in 1822, WERNER; and in the Liberal, MORGANTE MAGGIORI, THE VISION OF JUDGMENT, and HEAVEN AND EARTH: in 1823, THE AGE OF BRONZE, THE ISLAND, and from the sixth to the fourteenth Canto of DON JUAN and, in

1824, THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED, and the fifteenth and sixteenth Cantos of DON JUAN-his last publication.

After his journey to Rome, in 1817, he returned to Venice, where he remained till 1819. From the time of his leaving Venice he resided in various of the Italian States, chiefly at Pisa and Ravenna, till he embarked for Greece in 1823, in which country, at Missolonghi, on April 19th, 1824, he died, ætat. 36. He was buried in the church of Hucknall Torkard, Notts. on the 16th of July in the same year.