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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron · 1800 · Scanned text

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Author
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Language
English
Published
1800
Length
622,274 words · about 43 h 35 min
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123 reader sections
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Contents (123)
  1. Front matter about 24 min
  2. Contents about 7 min
  3. Canto the Third . . 327 under 1 min
  4. Preface To The First Edition about 3 h 15 min
  5. I about 41 min
  6. II. There is no hope for nations ! — Search the page about 2 min
  7. III. Glory and Empire ! once upon these towers about 1 min
  8. IV about 42 min
  9. V about 33 min
  10. VII about 1 min
  11. VIII about 3 min
  12. Preface To The Third Edition about 2 h 15 min
  13. Preface about 8 min
  14. IX. He died ! his death made no great stir on earth about 1 min
  15. XI under 1 min
  16. XII under 1 min
  17. XIII under 1 min
  18. XIV. I know this is unpopular ; I know under 1 min
  19. XV under 1 min
  20. XVI. Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate, [came under 1 min
  21. XVII about 1 h 11 min
  22. Preface To The First And Second Cantos about 6 min
  23. Canto The First about 37 min
  24. CANTO THE SECOND. Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven !— but thou about 9 min
  25. XVIII under 1 min
  26. XIX under 1 min
  27. XX about 1 min
  28. XXII. Through Calpe's straits survey the stecpy under 1 min
  29. XXIII under 1 min
  30. XXIV under 1 min
  31. XXV about 1 min
  32. XXVII about 1 min
  33. XXIX under 1 min
  34. XXX under 1 min
  35. XXXI about 1 min
  36. XXXIII under 1 min
  37. XXXIV about 1 min
  38. XXXVI under 1 min
  39. XXXVII under 1 min
  40. Xxxviii under 1 min
  41. XXXIX. Childe Harold sail'd, and pass'd the barren under 1 min
  42. XL about 1 min
  43. XLII. Morn dawns; and with it stern Albania's under 1 min
  44. XLIII under 1 min
  45. XLIV under 1 min
  46. XLV under 1 min
  47. XLVI under 1 min
  48. XLVII under 1 min
  49. XLVIII about 1 min
  50. XLIX about 21 min
  51. Canto The Third. I about 2 h 54 min
  52. Canto The First about 19 min
  53. CANTO THE SECOND. The winds are high on Helle's wave about 32 min
  54. Canto The First about 24 min
  55. Canto The Second about 22 min
  56. CANTO THE THIRD. ■ Come vedi— ancor non m'abbandona.'— DANTE about 27 min
  57. Canto The First. I about 23 min
  58. CANTO THE SECOND. Night wanes — the vapours round the mountains about 2 h 30 min
  59. Canto The First about 9 min
  60. CANTO THE SECOND. How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,* about 21 min
  61. CANTO THE THIRD. The fight was o'er ; the flashing through the about 9 min
  62. Canto The Fourth about 26 min
  63. Dedication about 3 min
  64. Canto The First about 8 min
  65. CANTO THE SECOND. The Spirit of the fervent days of Old about 5 min
  66. Canto The Third. I about 7 min
  67. Canto The Fourth about 9 min
  68. Canto The First about 25 min
  69. Canto The Fifth about 2 min
  70. Scene I.— Manfred alone.— Scene, a Gothic Gallery. — Time, Midnight about 9 min
  71. Scene II about 5 min
  72. Act II about 11 min
  73. Scene Iii.] Manfred about 7 min
  74. Scene Iv.] Manfred about 3 min
  75. Scene I.— A Hall in the Castle (7/"Manfred. Manfred and Herman about 6 min
  76. Scene II. — Another Chamber. Manfred and Herman about 6 min
  77. Scene Iv.] Manfred about 15 min
  78. Scene I. — An Antechamber in the Ducal Palace. PiETRO speaks, in entering, to Battista about 52 min
  79. Act III about 5 min
  80. Scene II. — The House where the Conspirators vieet. Dagolino, Doro, Bertram, Fedele Tre about 21 min
  81. Act IV about 26 min
  82. Act V about 32 min
  83. Scene Iv.] Marino Faliero, Doge Of Venice about 6 min
  84. ACT I. Scene I. — A Hall in the Palace about 30 min
  85. Act II about 24 min
  86. Act III about 18 min
  87. Act IV about 23 min
  88. Act V about 20 min
  89. Act I about 15 min
  90. Act II about 17 min
  91. ACT III. Scene I. —The Prison ^/Jacopo Foscari about 18 min
  92. Act IV about 14 min
  93. ACT V. Scene I.— The Dog-e's Apartment about 19 min
  94. Act I about 48 min
  95. Act III about 24 min
  96. PART 1. Scene I. — A woody and mountainous district about 9 min
  97. Scene III about 33 min
  98. Act I about 30 min
  99. Scene 1. — A Hall in the same Palace. Enter Idenstein and others about 13 min
  100. Scene II. — The Apartment of VJ-e.».^e.v., in the Palace. Enter JosEPHn>iK and Ulric about 18 min
  101. Act III about 17 min
  102. Scene IV. — A Garden. Enter WERNER about 6 min
  103. Scene I.— A Gothic Hall in the Castle of Siegendorf, near Prague. Enter Eric and Henrick, Retainers of the Court about 22 min
  104. Act V about 20 min
  105. Scene II. — The Interior of the Turret. Gabor and Siegendorf about 37 min
  106. Part II about 9 min
  107. Scene III.— 5/ Peter's. The Interior of the Church ; the Pope at the Altar ; PrUsts, &'c., SCENE III.] about 11 min
  108. Canto The First. Fragment about 1 h 10 min
  109. Canto The Second. 1819 about 1 h 2 min
  110. Canto The Third about 36 min
  111. Canto The Fourth about 35 min
  112. Canto The Fifth. 1821 about 48 min
  113. Preface To Cantos Vl, VII., And VIII about 4 min
  114. Canto The Sixth. I about 34 min
  115. Canto The Seventh about 24 min
  116. CANTO THE EIGHTH. 1823. Oh, blood and thunder! and oh, blood and wounds I about 40 min
  117. Canto The Ninth. 1823 about 25 min
  118. Canto The Tenth, 1823 about 26 min
  119. Canto The Eleventh about 27 min
  120. CANTO THE TWELFTH. Of all the barbArous middle ages, that about 2 h 39 min
  121. Canto II., Stanza xxxviii., p. 167 about 38 min
  122. Canto III., Stanza xci., p. 185 about 19 min
  123. Appendix about 25 min

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Front matter

^iiiiil!t!i!

by

PROFESSOR V.W. BLADEN DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE d.i^

Contents

Hours of Idleness:— . . . .

On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to

the Author ....

Canto the Third . . 327

Canto the Fifteenth

. 689

. 329

Canto the Sixteenth

A SERIES OF POEMS, ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED.

[first published in 1807.]

'Virginibus puerisque canto.'— HORACE, lib. iii. Ode i.

' He whistled as he went, for want of thought.'— Dryd en.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

FREDERICK, EARL OF CARLISLE,

KNIGHT OF THE GARTER, ETC. ETC.,

THE SECOND EDITION OF THESE POEMS IS INSCRIBED,

BY HIS OBLIGED WARD AND AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN,

THE AUTHOR.

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