], {50}[63] [The reference is to the metallic tractors of Benjamin CharlesPerkins, which were advertised as a "cure for all disorders, Red Noses,"etc. M._], For the seven snow-balls, of which "the greatest" was his wife, see Lifeof "St. Francis of Assisi" (_The Golden Legend_ (edited by F.S. He was cast for the part, in 1801, at Sadler's Wells, and,again, on a memorable occasion, November 28, 1809, at Covent GardenTheatre, when the O.P. And Julia's voice was lost, except in sighs, Until too late for useful conversation; The tears were gushing from her gentle eyes, I wish, indeed, they had not had occasion; But who, alas! It appears, however, that another doctor, a Mr.Le Mann (see _Letters_, 1899, iii. He was the author of the_Leandro_, a poem in blank verse, of canzoni, and sonnets after themodel of Petrarch, and of _The Allegory_.--_History of SpanishLiterature_, by George Ticknor, 1888, i. Lights came at length, and men, and maids, who found An awkward spectacle their eyes before; Antonia in hysterics, Julia swooned, Alfonso leaning, breathless, by the door; Some half-torn drapery scattered on the ground, Some blood, and several footsteps, but no more: Juan the gate gained, turned the key about, And liking not the inside, locked the out. Have you been at a London_ball_, and not known a Lobster-_sallad?_"--[H.]--[_Revise._] ]. He might have asked, withthe Courtenays, _Ubi lapsus, quid feci?_ If Byron had been on his mindor his conscience he would have drawn up an elaborate explanation orapology; but nothing of the kind is extant. Daffodils: Full Text, Wordlist; Lyrical Ballads: the Preface; Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See Byron's "Letter to Elizabeth, Duchess ofDevonshire," November 3, 1817, _Letters_, 1900, iv. similar to those whichsuggested the use of the word _taste_)." [64] [Edward Jenner (1749-1823) made his first experiments invaccination, May 14, 1796. Those lonely walks, and lengthening reveries, Could not escape the gentle Julia's eyes; She saw that Juan was not at his ease; But that which chiefly may, and must surprise, Is, that the Donna Inez did not tease Her only son with question or surmise; Whether it was she did not see, or would not, Or, like all very clever people, could not. Byron’s Don Juan, the name comically anglicized to rhyme with “new one” and “true one,” is a passive character, in many ways a victim of predatory women, and more of a picaresque hero in his unwitting roguishness. Dare you suspect me, whom the thought would kill? can love, and then be wise? With the exception of La Fayette, who outlived Byron by ten years, andLord St. Vincent, all "the famous persons" mentioned in stanzas ii.-iv.had passed away long before the First Canto of _Don Juan_ was written.]. ), visitedByron professionally, and reported on his condition to Lady Byron.Hence, perhaps, the mention of "druggists. 13-18); see, too,_Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_, by Robert Greene, ed. The House of Commons became the Asylum of his Slander, as the Churches of Rome were once the Sanctuary of Assassins. ].--[_Revise._], [38] ["There is some doubt about this."--[H.] ", [[*A] For Brougham's Fabian tactics with regard to duelling, _videpost_, Canto XIII. "At least, perhaps, he has not sixty years, At that age he would be too old for slaughter, Or for so young a husband's jealous fears-- (Antonia! As genre literature, Don Juan is an epic poem, written in ottava rima and presented in sixteen cantos. 80. Richard, Earl Howe, Admiral (1725-1799), known by the sailors as "BlackDick," defeated the French off Ushant, June 1, 1794. Is it for this I scarce went anywhere, Except to bull-fights, mass, play, rout, and revel? James Wolfe, General, born January 2, 1726, was killed at the siege ofQuebec, September 13, 1759. ], [28] [Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) published _Castle Rackrent_, etc.,etc., etc., in 1800. Forthe "severity of the Duke of Cumberland," see Scott's _Tales of aGrandfather_, _Prose Works_, 1830, vii. Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his … and Julia "Fire!" _But if you're angry, reader, pass it by_.--[MS. There's only one slight difference between Me and my epic brethren gone before, And here the advantage is my own, I ween (Not that I have not several merits more, But this will more peculiarly be seen); They so embellish, that 't is quite a bore Their labyrinth of fables to thread through, Whereas this story's actually true. If, after all, there should be some so blind To their own good this warning to despise, Led by some tortuosity of mind, Not to believe my verse and their own eyes, And cry that they "the moral cannot find," I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies; Should captains the remark, or critics, make, They also lie too--under a mistake. husband now no more, If ever you indeed deserved the name, Is 't worthy of your years?--you have threescore-- Fifty, or sixty, it is all the same-- Is 't wise or fitting, causeless to explore For facts against a virtuous woman's fame? Oh Sorrow! It was inscribed, "To her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte ofWales and Cobourg. Don Jos� and the Donna Inez led For some time an unhappy sort of life, Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead;[d] They lived respectably as man and wife, Their conduct was exceedingly well-bred, And gave no outward signs of inward strife, Until at length the smothered fire broke out, And put the business past all kind of doubt. Poor fellow! My teeth begin to chatter, my veins freeze! --[_Revise._]], {51}[68] [Sir Humphry Davy, P.R.S. still chaster reader--she'll be nice hence- Forward, and there is no great cause to quake; This liberty is a poetic licence, Which some irregularity may make In the design, and as I have a high sense Of Aristotle and the Rules, 't is fit To beg his pardon when I err a bit. But Donna Inez, to divert the train Of one of the most circulating scandals That had for centuries been known in Spain, At least since the retirement of the Vandals, First vowed (and never had she vowed in vain) To Virgin Mary several pounds of candles; And then, by the advice of some old ladies, She sent her son to be shipped off from Cadiz. M.,Revise. stanza lxxxiv. "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,[al] 'T is a Woman's whole existence; Man may range The Court, Camp, Church, the Vessel, and the Mart; Sword, Gown, Gain, Glory, offer in exchange Pride, Fame, Ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these can not estrange; Men have all these resources, We but one,[84] To love again, and be again undone. I can't tell how, or why, or what suspicion Could enter into Don Alfonso's head; But for a cavalier of his condition It surely was exceedingly ill-bred, Without a word of previous admonition, To hold a levee round his lady's bed, And summon lackeys, armed with fire and sword, To prove himself the thing he most abhorred. Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise Flashed an expression more of pride than ire, And love than either; and there would arise A something in them which was not desire, But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. ], [76] [The Italian names have an obvious signification. 'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come;[u] 'T is sweet to be awakened by the lark, Or lulled by falling waters; sweet the hum Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds, The lisp of children, and their earliest words. Julia, in fact, had tolerable grounds,-- Alfonso's loves with Inez were well known; But whether 't was that one's own guilt confounds-- But that can't be, as has been often shown, A lady with apologies abounds;-- It might be that her silence sprang alone From delicacy to Don Juan's ear, To whom she knew his mother's fame was dear. ], [[*C] For "Captain Bobadill, a Paul's man," see Ben Jonson's _Every Manin his Humour_, act iv. [ac] What may this midnight violence betide, A sudden fit of drunkenness or spleen? "As I have no wish to have mysteries, I merely prohibit the _publication_ of these stanzas in _print_, for the reasons of fairness mentioned; but I by no means wish _him not_ to _know_ their existence or their tenor, nor my intentions as to himself: he has shown no forbearance, and he shall find none. p. Looking for a hero (the adulterous, oversexed kind)? The letterwas in reply to a criticism of _Don Juan_ (Cantos I., II.) Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Senhor Don Alfonso stood confused; Antonia bustled round the ransacked room, And, turning up her nose, with looks abused Her master, and his myrmidons, of whom Not one, except the attorney, was amused; He, like Achates, faithful to the tomb, So there were quarrels, cared not for the cause, Knowing they must be settled by the laws. According to "Boz" (_Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi_, 1846, ii. He had been hid--I don't pretend to say How, nor can I indeed describe the where-- Young, slender, and packed easily, he lay, No doubt, in little compass, round or square; But pity him I neither must nor may His suffocation by that pretty pair; 'T were better, sure, to die so, than be shut With maudlin Clarence in his Malmsey butt. In 1790, at the bar of the National Convention, hedescribed himself as the "Speaker of Mankind." ], [37] ["This is so very pointed."--[?Hobhouse.] John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721-1790), commanded the Britishforces in Germany (1766-1769). Now we'll turn to Juan. ], [34] ["'Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I could brain him with hislady's fan." Related links for Lord George Gordon Byron, Quiz: Byron Biographical 6 questions quiz, Lady Byron Vindicated by Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Optimism of Byron by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. No doubt this patience, when the world is damning us, Is philosophic in our former friends; 'T is also pleasant to be deemed magnanimous, The more so in obtaining our own ends; And what the lawyers call a _"malus animus"_ Conduct like this by no means comprehends: Revenge in person's certainly no virtue, But then 't is not _my_ fault, if _others_ hurt you. The heart ofBoabdil, softened by misfortunes, and overcharged with grief, could nolonger contain itself. Lady Byron, in her _Remarks on Mr. Moore's Life, etc_. Frankenstein: the Novel; The Victorian Age. Thus parents also are at times short-sighted: Though watchful as the lynx, they ne'er discover, The while the wicked world beholds delighted, Young Hopeful's mistress, or Miss Fanny's lover, Till some confounded escapade has blighted The plan of twenty years, and all is over; And then the mother cries, the father swears, And wonders why the devil he got heirs. Romances paint at full length people's wooings, ... (Ford Madox Ford, Finding of Don Juan by Haidee, 1873) Byron’s footnotes are given in the annotations in square brackets []. And if she met him, though she smiled no more, She looked a sadness sweeter than her smile, As if her heart had deeper thoughts in store She must not own, but cherished more the while For that compression in its burning core; Even Innocence itself has many a wile, And will not dare to trust itself with truth, And Love is taught hypocrisy from youth. Not that Remorse did not oppose Temptation; A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering "I will ne'er consent"--consented. The poem consists of sixteen cantos although an unfinished seventeenth was in progress at the time of Byron’s death in 1824. Being suspected byRobespierre, he was condemned to death, March 24, 1794. ]_, {46}[58] ["Age Xerxes.. eo usque luxuria gaudens, ut edicto pr�mium eiproponeret, qui novum voluptatis genus reperisset."--Val. Ungrateful, perjured, barbarous Don Alfonso, How dare you think your lady would go on so? 81,106, 107), Byron patronized Grimaldi's "benefits at Covent Garden," wasrepeatedly in his company, and when he left England, in 1816, "presentedhim with a valuable silver snuff-box." and Julia 'Fire!' Most epic poets plunge _"in medias res"_[23] (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road), And then your hero tells, whene'er you please, What went before--by way of episode, While seated after dinner at his ease, Beside his mistress in some soft abode, Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavern, Which serves the happy couple for a tavern. 852, _sq_. It was upon a day, a summer's day;-- Summer's indeed a very dangerous season, And so is spring about the end of May; The sun, no doubt, is the prevailing reason; But whatsoe'er the cause is, one may say, And stand convicted of more truth than treason, That there are months which nature grows more merry in,-- March has its hares, and May must have its heroine. The sun set, and up rose the yellow moon: The Devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who called her CHASTE, methinks, began too soon Their nomenclature; there is not a day, The longest, not the twenty-first of June, Sees half the business in a wicked way, On which three single hours of moonshine smile-- And then she looks so modest all the while! ], [71] ["'All that, Egad,' as Bayes says" [in the Duke of Buckingham'splay _The Rehearsal_].--Letter to Murray, September 28, 1820, _Letters_,1901, v. {66}[aj] _Found--heaven knows how--his solitary way._--[MS.], [82] [William Brodie Gurney (1777-1855), the son and grandson of eminentshorthand writers, "reported the proceedings against the Duke of York in1809, the trials of Lord Cochrane in 1814, and of Thistlewood in 1820,and the proceedings against Queen Caroline."--_Dict. This licence is to hope the reader will Suppose from June the sixth (the fatal day, Without whose epoch my poetic skill For want of facts would all be thrown away), But keeping Julia and Don Juan still In sight, that several months have passed; we'll say 'T was in November, but I'm not so sure About the day--the era's more obscure. Nelson was once Britannia's god of War, And still should be so, but the tide is turned; There's no more to be said of Trafalgar, 'T is with our hero quietly inurned; Because the army's grown more popular, At which the naval people are concerned; Besides, the Prince is all for the land-service. For Byron's variousestimates of Napoleon's character and career, see _Childe Harold_, CantoIII, stanza xxxvi. More ... Don Juan Cantos I+ II Annotated Peter Gallagher Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. And how ye may be doubly widows--wives! On this Hobhousecomments, "Better add the whole or scratch out all afterfemina." Her favourite science was the mathematical, Her noblest virtue was her magnanimity, Her wit (she sometimes tried at wit) was Attic all, Her serious sayings darkened to sublimity;[a] In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy--her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, And wonderful beyond all wondrous measure; 'T is pity though, in this sublime world, that Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure;[x] Few mortals know what end they would be at, But whether Glory, Power, or Love, or Treasure, The path is through perplexing ways, and when The goal is gained, we die, you know--and then----. You may show them to _him_ and to all whom it may concern, with the explanation that the only reason that I have not had satisfaction of this man has been, that I have never had an opportunity since I was aware of the facts, which my friends had carefully concealed from me; and it was only by slow degrees, and by piecemeal, that I got at them. --[_Marginal notes in Revise._]], [In the Delphin _Martial_ (Amsterdam, 1701) the _Epigrammata Obscaena_are printed as an Appendix (pp. Join Is it for this, whate'er my suitors were, I favoured none--nay, was almost uncivil? & additional features for teachers. Sometimes he turned to gaze upon his book, Boscan,[55] or Garcilasso;[56]--by the wind Even as the page is rustled while we look, So by the poesy of his own mind Over the mystic leaf his soul was shook, As if 't were one whereon magicians bind Their spells, and give them to the passing gale, According to some good old woman's tale. 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"[95] When Southey's read, and Wordsworth understood, I can't help putting in my claim to praise-- The four first rhymes are Southey's every line: For God's sake, reader! with sword drawn and cocked trigger, Now, tell me, don't you cut a pretty figure? --Alfonso muttered, "D--n her,"[78] But nothing else, the time of words was o'er; He cast a rueful look or two, and did, He knew not wherefore, that which he was bid. 1 DON JUAN Canto 1 Written: Venice, July 3rd-Septemer 6th 1818 Fair-copied by Byron, September 16th-November 1st 1819 Published by John Murray, with Canto 2, anonymously, July 15th 1819 My days of love are over; me no more[90] The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow, Can make the fool of which they made before,-- In short, I must not lead the life I did do; The credulous hope of mutual minds is o'er, The copious use of claret is forbid too, So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. -- Day has not broke -- there 's no one in the revise the words _nec puer Jam_ were.! 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