LORD BYRON

AND SOME OF

HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

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LORD BYRON

AND

SOME OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES;

WITH

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE,

AND OF HIS

VISIT TO ITALY.

By Leigh Hunt.

<< It is for slaves to lie, and for freemen to speak truth.

<< In the examples, which I here bring in, of what I have heard, read,
done, or said, I have forbid myself to dare to alter even the most light
and indifferent circumstances. My conscience does not falsify one tittle.
What my ignorance may do, I cannot say.>>
MONTAIGNE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

EMBELLISHED WITH FIVE PORTRAITS AND A FAC-SIMILE.

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PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI,
AT THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH
LIBRARY, N° 18, RUE VIVIENNE.

1828.

LORD BYRON

AND SOME OF

HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

CONTEMPORARY MEMOIRS.

MR MOORE."

I THOUGHT Thomas Moore, when I first knew him, as delightful a person as one could imagine. He could not help being an interesting one; and his sort of talent has this advantage in it, that being of a description intelligible to all, the possessor is equally sure of present and future fame. I never received a visit from him, but I felt as if I had been talking with Prior or Sir Charles Sedley. His

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