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LIFE AND GENIUS

OF

LORD BYRON,

BY SIR COSMO GORDON,

WITH ADDITIONAL ANECDOTES AND CRITICAL REMARKS

FROM OTHER PUBLICATIONS;

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A SKETCH ON LORD BYRON'S DEATH,

BY

Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

There is that within me which shall tire
Fortune and time and breath when I expire
Something uncarthly, which they deem not of,
Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre.

Childe-Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv.

PARIS,

PRINTED FOR BAUDRY,

ENGLISH, ITALIAN, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND GERMAN LIBRARY,

9, RUE DU COQ S.-HONORÉ.

1824.

A CHARACTER OF LORD BYRON,

BY

SIR WALTER SCOTT.