ENGRAVED BY MEYER, FOR" THE LIFE, WRITINGS, OPINIONS, & TIMES, OF THE BLE RT HON LORD BYRON, IN 3 VOLS.8VO" FROM THE ORIGINAL MINIATURE PAINTED TH BY HOLMES, 12 APRIL 1816, BEING THE LAST HIS LORDSHIP EVER SAT FOR. RIGHT HON. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, LORD BYRON; INCLUDING, IN ITS MOST EXTENSIVE BIOGRAPHY, ANECDOTES, AND MEMOIRS POLISHED AND ENLIGHTENED AGE AND COURT OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FOURTH. COPIOUS RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LATELY DESTROYED MS. AND ENTITLED MEMOIRS OF MY OWN LIFE AND TIMES, BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD BYRON. "CREDE BYRON."-Motto of the Byron Family. "I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man "Halts not particularly, but moves itself "In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice "Infects one comma in the course I hold, "But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, SHAKSPEARE.-Timon of Athens. BY AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, IN THE GREEK MILITARY SERVICE, AND COMRADE OF HIS LORDSHIP. Compiled from authentic Documents and from long personal Acquaintance. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE CANNING, M.P. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, &c. &c. &c. SIR: 66 'a The opinion, which the late Lord Byron publicly expressed, that you were genius, almost an universal one—an orator, a wit, a poet, and a statesman;" and that, "if ever man saved his country, CANNING can;" will sufficiently explain why this Biography of one of the greatest men that this, or any other country, ever gave birth to, is dedicated to you; particularly as his Lordship's judgment has been sanctioned by your ministry, and the country has been for some time past looking up to, and still continues to look up to, your talents and rectitude, to heal the wounds of a contest, unexampled in the history of the world. |