The letters of Lord Byron Author:George Gordon Byron Byron Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: printer has brought you the offspring of my poetic mania. Remember in the first line to read ' loud the winds whistle,' instead of 'round/ which that blockhead R... more »idge has inserted by mistake, and makes nonsense of the whole stanza. Addio !—Now to encounter my Hydra. Yours ever." To Mr. Pigot. v "Piccadilly, August 16, 1806. " I cannot exactly say with Csesar, ' Veni, vidi, vici:' however, the most important part of his laconic account of success applies to my present situation; for, though Mrs. Byron took the trouble of ' coming' and ' seeing,' yet your humble servant proved the victor. After an obstinate engagement of some hours, in which we suffered considerable damage, from the quickness of the enemy's fire, they at length retired in confusion, leaving behind the artillery, field equipage, and some prisoners: their defeat is decisive for the present campaign. To speak more intelligibly, Mrs. B. returns immediately, but I proceed, with all my laurels, to Worthing, on the Sussex Coast; to which place you will address (to be left at the post office) your next epistle. By the enclosure of a second gingle of rhyme, you will probably conceive my muse to be vastly prolific ; her inserted production was brought forth a few years ago, and found by accident on Thursday among some old papers. I have recopied it, and, adding the proper date, request that it may be printed with the rest of the family. I thought your sentiments on the last bantling would coincide with mine, but it was impossible to give it any other garb, being founded on facts. My stay at Worthing will not exceed three weeks, and you may possibly behold me again at Southwell the middle of September. " Will you desire Ridge to suspend the printing of my poems till he hears further from me, as I have determined to ...« less