THE HEIRESS.

Ma quando io avrò durata l'éroica fatica di trascrivere questa storia da questo dilavato e graffiato autografo, e l'avrò data, come suol dirsi, alla luce, si troverà egli poi chi duri fatica di leggerla?-MANZONI.

My task is done, my song hath ceased, my theme
Has died into an echo; it is fit

The spell should break of this protracted dream.
The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit
The midnight lamp; and what is writ is writ-
Would it were worthier! But I am not now
That which I have been;

Less palpably before me;

and my visions flit
and the glow

Which in my spirit dwelt, is fluttering, faint and low.

BYRON.

A NOVEL.

"She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”—Byron.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
(SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBurn.)