Journal of the conversations of lord Byron ... in the years 1821 and 1822

CONTENTS.

The Writer's arrival at Pisa. Lord Byron's

live stock and impedimenta. The Lanfran-

chi palace; Ugolino; Lanfranchi's ghost.

Introduction to Lord Byron. His cordiality
of manner. Description of his person; his
bust by Bertolini; the cloven foot; his tem-
perate habits, and regard for the brute
creation. Conversations on Switzerland and

Germany; strong predilection for Turkey

Residence at Geneva. Malicious intruders.

Madame de Staël. Dinner disaster. Ex-

cursions on the lake; Shelley and Hob-

house; St. Preux and Julia; classical

drowning. Lord Byron's horsemanship;

pistol-firing; remarks on duelling; his own

Page

Sunset at Venice and Pisa. Routine of Lord
Byron's life. The Countess Guiccioli:
Lord B.'s attachment to her; beautiful
Sonnet and Stanzas in honour of her. Cava-
lieri Serventi. Mode of bringing up Italian
females; its consequences. Italian propen-
sity to love. Intimacy with the Countess :
her rescue

Lord Byron's preference for Ravenna. Fe-

male beauty in Italy and England com-

pared. The Constitutionalists; their pro-

scription. Lord Byron's danger. Assassi-

nation of the military Commandant at Ra-

Lord B.'s humanity

venna.

The Byron Memoirs: Mr. Moore, Lady Burg-

hersh, and Lady Byron. Lord B.'s opi-

nion of his own Memoirs; his marriage and

separation. Mrs. Williams, the English

Sybil. An omen. Lord B.'s introduction

to Miss Millbank; his courtship and mar-

riage

The wedding-ring. An uneasy ride. The

honey-moon. Lord and Lady B.'s fashion-

able dissipation; consequent embarrassment;

final separation. Lord B.'s prejudices re-

specting women. Family jars; Mrs. Char-

lement. Domestic felony. Mrs. Mardyn.

Statute of lunacy. Lady Noel's hatred:

anecdote

19-32

32-40

40-46

46-58

Lady Byron's abilities. Lord B.'s various
counter-parts. "The Examiner" and Lady
Jersey. Sale of Newstead Abbey; depar-
ture from England

Madame de Staël and Goëthe. Lord B.'s
partiality for America; curious specimen of
American criticism. The Sketches of
Italy.' Lord B.'s life at Venice; further
remarks on his Memoirs.
Anecdotes of himself and companions; Lord
Falkland. Lord B.'s presentiments; early
horror of matrimony; anti-matrimonial wa-
ger. Anecdotes of his father. Craniology.
Anecdote of his uncle. Early love for
Scotland; Mary C. Harrow School;
Duke of Dorset; Lords Clare and Cal-
thorpe; school rebellion.

The Hours of Idleness.' The skull goblet;

a new order established at Newstead. Julia

Alpinula. Skulls from the field of Morat.

Lord B.'s contempt for academic honours;

his bear; the ourang-outang. A lady in

masquerade. Mrs. L. G.'s depravity. Sin-

gular occurrence. Comparison of English

and Italian profligacy

Fashionable pastimes; Hell in St. James's

Street; chicken-hazard. Scroope Davies,

and Lord B.'s pistols; the deodand. Lord

B. commences his travels. His opinion of

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59-64

65-70

70-85

85-94

Venice.

of women.

His own and Napoleon's opinion

The new Fornarina; Harlowe

the painter. Gallantry sometimes danger-

ous at Venice

Lord Byron's religious opinions; his scepti-

cism only occasional. English Cathedral

Service. Religion of Tasso and Milton.

Missionary Societies, and missions to the

East. Tentazione di Sant' Antonio. Taci-

tus; Priestley and Wesley. Dying mo-

ments of Johnson, Cowper, Hume, Vol-

taire, and Creech. Sale. Anythingarians;

Gibbon; Plato's three principles. Lord B.'s

correspondents; ecstatic epistolary extract.

Prayer for Lord B.'s conversion; his avowal

of being a Christian .

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94-105

105-119

Ali Pacha's barbarity. Affecting tale. Real
incident in The Giaour.' Albanian
guards. The Doctor in alarm. Lord By-
ron's ghost. He prophesies that he should
die in Greece. Lord Byron and the Drury
Lane Committee. Theatricals. Obstacles
to writing for the stage. Kemble; Mrs.
Siddons; Munden; Shakspeare; Alfieri;
Maturin; Miss Baillie. Modern sensitive-

ness. 'Marino Faliero.' Ugo Foscolo 119-141

Ada. Singular coincidence. Ideas on edu-