most seek to soothe; while the busy and officious intrude, without shame or sympathy, and embitter the
privacy of affliction by their rude gaze and importunate clamour. But the pain which such insects can
give only lasts while the wound is raw. Let the patient submit to the discipline of the soul enjoined by
religion, and recommended by philosophy, and the war will become speedily insensible to their stings.
Lord Byron
may not have loved the world,
but the world has loved him,
not perhaps with a wise or
discriminating affection, but as well as it is capable of loving any one. And many who do not belong to
the world, as the
word is generally understood, have their
thoughts fixed on Lord Byron, with the
anxious wish and eager hope that he will bring his powerful understanding to combat with his irritated
feelings, and that his next efforts will shew that he has acquired the peace
of mind necessary for the
free and useful exercise of his splendid talents.
I decus, i nostrum, melioribus utere fatis.
119
Scott to John Wilson Croker, undated [1817]:
(Source: text from
The Croker Papers, ed. Louis J. Jennings, John Murray 1885, Vol. I p.95)
I send Murray a review of Lord Byron. I have treated him with the respect his abilities claim, and
the sort of attachment which I really feel for his person. But d—— his morals and his politics! What a
goodly vessel have they combined to wreck.
from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, IV:
39.
Peace to Torquato’s injured shade! ’twas his
In life and death to be the mark where Wrong
Aimed with her poisoned arrows, but to miss.
345
Oh! Victor unsurpassed in modern Song!
Each year brings forth its millions; but how long
The tide of Generations shall roll on,
And not the whole combined and countless throng
Compose a Mind like thine? though All in one
350
Condensed their scattered rays, they would not form a Sun.
40.
Great as thou art, yet paralleled by those,
Thy countrymen, before thee born to shine,
The Bards of Hell and Chivalry:
120
first rose
The Tuscan father’s Comedy Divine;
355
Then, not unequal to the Florentine,
The Southern Scott, the Minstrel who called forth
A new Creation with his magic line,
And, like the Ariosto of the North,
359
Sang Ladye-love and War, Romance and Knightly Worth.
121
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