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Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron in the Years 1821 and 1822
Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron in the Years 1821 and 1822 Author:Thomas Medwin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you c... more »an select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " You ask if Lady Byron were ever in " love with me -- I have answered that " question already -- No! I was the fashion " when she first came out: I had the " character of being a great rake, and was " a great dandy -- both of which young " ladies like. She married me from va- " nity, and the hope of reforming and " fixing me. She was a spoiled child, " and naturally of a jealous disposition; " and this was increased by the infernal " machinations of those in her confi- " dence. " She was easily made the dupe of " the designing, for she thought her " knowledge of mankind infallible: she '' had got some foolish idea of Madame " de StaeTs into her head, that a per- " son may be better known in the first" hour than in ten years. She had the " habit of drawing people's characters " after she had seen them once or twice. " She wrote pages on pages about my " character, but it was as unlike as pos- " sible. " Lady Byron had good ideas, but " could never express them; wrote poe- " try too, but it was only good by accident. " Her letters were always enigmatical, " often unintelligible. She was governed " by what she called fixed rules and prin- " ciples, squared mathematically. She " would have made an excellent wrangler " I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics " Meant to personify the mathematics." Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 11. " at Cambridge. It must be confess- " ed, however, that she gave no proof " of. her boasted consistency. First, she " refused me, then she accepted me, then " she separated herself from me: -- so " much for consistency. I need not tel...« less