577, 578, 579.
Blessington, Countess of, 576, 577. Impromptu
on her taking a villa called Il Paradiso,'
577. Lines written at the request of, 577.
Letters to, 577. 580. 591.
Blinkensop, Rev. Mr., his Sermon on Chris-
tianity, 188.

Blount, Martha, Pope's attachment to, 689.
703.

Blucher, Marshal, 416.

Blues, the;' a Literary Eclogue, 531.
'Boatswain,' Lord Byron's favourite dog, 38.
44. 73. Inscription on his monument,

73.

Boisragon, Dr., 168.

Bolivar, Simon, 561.

588. 591. 601. 603, 604. 606.
Boxing, 204.

Bradshaw, Hon. Cavendish, 282.
Braham, John, vocalist, 201. 274.
Breme, Marquis de, 327.

Bride of Abydos; a Turkish Tale,' 197.
200. 211, 212. 217, 218. 221. 245. 301.
Brientz, town and lake of, 314.

Brig of Balgownie, 12.

British Critic, 201.

British Review, its character of the 'Giaour,'
191. Lord Byron's Letter to the Editor
of, 406.

Broglie, Duchess of (daughter of Madame de
Staël), her character,321. Anecdote of, 395.
Her remark on the errors of clever people,
653.

Brooke, Lord (Sir Fulke Greville), account
of a MS. poem by, 176.

Brougham, Henry, esq. (afterwards Lord
Brougham), 230.

Broughton, the regicide, his monument at
Vevay, 311.

Brown, Isaac Hawkins, his lava buttons, 267.
Browne, Sir Thomas, his Religio Medici'
quoted, 218.

Bruce, Mr., 113. 120.

at, 397, 398.

Bolton, Mr., 130, 131, 132.

Bruno, Dr., 589.

Brussels, 307.

Anecdote of, 612.

His style of

eloquence, 184.

Burns, Robert, his habit of reading at meals,
46. His elegy on Maillie, 73. What
would he have been, if a patrician? 200.
His unpublished letters, 214. His rank

among poets, 699. Often coarse, but never
vulgar, 610.

Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, a most
amusing and instructive medley, 48.
Burun, Ralph de, 1.

Busby, Dr., Dryden's reverential regard for, 19.
Busby, Thomas, Mus. Doct., his monologue
on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre,
174. 176. His translation of Lucretius,
202. 246.

Butler, Dr. (head master of Harrow school),
21. 29. 55. 66. Reconciliation between
Lord Byron and, 89.

Byron, Sir John, the Little with the great
beard, 2.

Byron, Sir John, created (1643) Baron Byron
of Rochdale; some account of, 2.

Byron, Sir Richard, tribute to his valour and
fidelity, 2.

Byron, Admiral John (grandfather of the
Poet), 3.

Byron, William, fifth Lord (grand-uncle of
the Poet), 3. His trial for killing Mr.
Chaworth in a duel, 3. His death, 10.
His eccentric and unsocial habits, 10.
Byron, John (father of the Poet), his elope-
ment with Lady Carmarthen, 3. His
marriage with Miss Catherine Gordon, 3.
His death at Valenciennes, 6.

Byron, Mrs. (mother of the Poet), descended
from the Gordons of Gight, 2. Vehemence
of her feelings, 2. Ballad on the occasion
of her marriage, 3. Her fortune, 4. Sepa-
ration from her husband, 4. Her capricious
excesses of fondness and of anger, 4. 13.
Her death, 127. Lord Byron's letters to,
71. 79. 77. 88. 95. 103. 107. 110, 111.
114, 115, 116. 126. See also, 33, 34, 35,
36. 113. 127, 128, 129.
Byron, Honourable Augusta (sister of the
Poet), 3. See Leigh, Honourable Au-
gusta.
BYRON (GEORGE-GORDON-BYRON), sixth
Lord-

1788. Born Jan. 22., in Holles Street,
London, 4.

1790-1791. Taken by his mother to
Aberdeen, 4. Impetuosity of his temper,
5. Affectionate sweetness and playfulness
of his disposition, 5. The malformation
of his foot a source of pain and uneasiness
to him, 5. His early acquaintance with
the Sacred Writings, 5. Instances of his
quickness and energy, 6.
Death of his
father, 6.

1792-1795. Sent to a day-school at Aber-
deen, 6. His own account of the pro-
gress of his infantine studies, 6. His
sports and exercises, 7.
1796-1797. Removed into the High-
lands, 7. His visits to Lachin-y-gair, 7.
First awakening of his poetic talent, 8.
His early love of mountain scenery, 9.
Attachment for Mary Duff, 9.

1798. Succeeds to the title, 10. Made
a ward of Chancery, under the guardian-
ship of the Earl of Carlisle, and removed
to Newstead, 11. Placed under the care
of an empiric at Nottingham for the
cure of his lameness, 14.

1799. First symptom of a tendency towards
rhyming, 14. Removed to London, and
put under the care of Dr. Baillie, 15.
Becomes the pupil of Dr. Glennie, at
Dulwich, 15.

1800-1804. His boyish love for his

cousin, Margaret Parker, 17. His first
dash into poetry,' 17. Is sent to Har-
row, 17.
Notices of his school life, 20.
His first Harrow verses, 20. His school
friendships, 22. His mode of life as a
schoolboy, 25. Accompanies his mother
to Bath, 26. His early attachment to
Miss Chaworth, 26. Heads a rebelling
at Harrow, 29. Passes the vacation at
Southwell, 30.

1805. Removed to Cambridge, So. His
college friendships, 31.

1806. Aug.- Nov., prepares a collection
of his poems for the press, 37. His
visit to Harrowgate, $7. Southwell
private theatricals, 38. Prints a volume
of his poems; but, at the entreaty of
Mr. Becher, commits the edition to the
flames, 39.

1807. Publishes Hours of Idleness,' 45.

List of historical writers whose works he
had perused at the age of nineteen, 46.
Reviews Wordsworth's Poems, 56. Begins
'Bosworth Field,' an epic, 56. Writes
part of a novel, 58.

1808. His early scepticism, 58.

Effect

produced on his mind by the critique on
Hours of Idleness,' in the Edinburgh
Review, 67. Passes his time between the
dissipations of London and Cambridge,
69. Takes up his residence at Newstead,
71. Forms the design of visiting India,
73. Prepares English Bards and
Scotch Reviewers' for the press, 74.

1809. His coming of age celebrated at
Newstead, 75. Takes his seat in the
House of Lords, 78. Loneliness of his
position at this period, 80. Sets out on
his travels, 83. State of mind in which
he took leave of England, 83. Visits
Lisbon, Seville, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta,
Prevesa, Zitza, Tepaleen, 91-95. Is
introduced to Ali Pacha, 95. Begins
• Childe Harold' at Ioannina, in Albania,
96. Visits Actium, Nicopolis; nearly
lost in a Turkish ship of war; proceeds
through Acarnania and Ætolia towards
the Morea, 99. Reaches Missolonghi,
99. Visits Patras, Vostizza, Mount
Parnassus, Delphi, Lepanto, Thebes,
Mount Citharon, 99. Arrives, on Christ-
mas-day, at Athens, 100.

1810. Spends ten weeks in visiting the
monuments of Athens; makes excur-
sions to several parts of Attica, 100.
The Maid of Athens, 101. Leaves
Athens for Smyrna, 102. Visits ruins
of Ephesus, 102. Concludes, at Smyrna,
the second canto of Childe Harold,'
102.

April, leaves Smyrna for Constan-
tinople, 103. Visits the Troad, 103.
Swims from Sestos to Abydos, 103.
May, arrives at Constantinople, 105.
June, expedition through the Bosphorus
to the Black Sea, 106. July, visits
Corinth, 111. Aug.-Sept., makes a
tour of the Morea, 111. Returns to
Athens, 113.

719

Writes the Address for the opening of
Drury Lane Theatre, 166.
1813. April, brings out anonymously

The Waltz,' 177. May, publishes the
'Giaour,' 178. His acquaintance,
through Mr. Moore, with Mr. Leigh
Hunt, 183. Makes preparations for a
voyage to the East, 187. Projects a
a journey to Abyssinia, 192. Dec.,
publishes the Bride of Abydos,' 217.
Is an unsuccessful suitor for the hand of
Miss Milbanke, 225.

1814.

Jan., publishes the Corsair,'
235. April, writes Ode on the Fall of
Napoleon Buonaparte,' 247. Comes to
the resolution not only of writing no
more, but of suppressing all he had ever
written, 250. May, writes 'Lara,' 256.
Makes a second proposal for the hand
of Miss Milbanke, and is accepted, 263.
Dec., writes Hebrew Melodies,' 273.
1815.

289.

Jan. 2., marries Miss Milbanke,
272. April, becomes personally ac-
quainted with Sir Walter Scott, 279.
May, becomes a member of the sub-com-
mittee of Drury Lane Theatre, 282.
Pressure of pecuniary embarrassments,
July, writes Siege of Corinth,'
290. Sept., writes Parisina,' 290.
1816. Jan., Lady Byron adopts the reso-
lution of separating from him, 292.
Samples of the abuse lavished on him,
297. March, writes Fare thee well,'
and A Sketch,' 302.
April, leaves
England, 305. His route - Brussels,
Waterloo, &c., 307. Takes up his
abode at the Campagne Diodati, 308.
Finishes, June 27., the third canto of

-

Childe Harold,' 308. Writes, June
28., Prisoner of Chillon,' 321. Writes,
in July, Monody on the Death of She-
ridan,' the 'Dream,' Darkness,' 'Epistle
to Augusta,' Churchill's Grave,'' Pro-
metheus,' 'Could I remount,' 'Sonnet to
Lake Leman,' and part of Manfred,'
321. August, unsuccessful negotia-
tion for a domestic reconciliation, 321.
Sept., makes a tour of the Bernese Alps,
311. His intercourse with Mr. Shelley,
315. Oct., proceeds to Italy - route,
Martigny, the Simplon, Milan, Verona,
324-328. Nov., takes up his residence
at Venice, 328. Mariana Segati, 329.
Studies the Armenian language, 329.
1817.

-

Feb., finishes Manfred,' 340.

1818.

The Fornarina, Margarita Cogni,
383. July, writes Ode on Venice,'
387. Nov., finishes Mazeppa,' 391.
And first canto of Don Juan,' 391.
1819. Jan., finishes second canto of Don
Juan,' 392. April, beginning of his
acquaintance with Countess Guiccioli,
393.
396. Aug., writes Letter to the
Editor of my Grandmother's Review,'
406. Dec., completes the third and
fourth cantos of Don Juan,' 429.
Removes to Ravenna, 431.
1820. Jan., domesticated with Countess
Guiccioli, 432. Feb., translates first
canto of the Morgante Maggiore,' 434.
March, finishes Prophecy of Dante,'
Translates Francesa of Rimini,'
And writes Observations upon
an Article in Blackwood's Magazine,'
443. April July, writes 'Marino

June, writes Stanzas to the Po,'

438.
439.

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586. Receives a communication from
the London committee, 588. May,
offers to proceed to Greece, and to devote
his resources to the object in view, 588.
Preparations for his departure, 589.
July 14., sails for Greece, 591. Reaches
Argostoli, 594. Excursion to Ithaca,
595. Waits, at Cephalonia, the arrival
of the Greek fleet, 598. His conversa-
tions on religion with Dr. Kennedy at
Mataxata, 599. His letters to Madame
Guiccioli, 601. His address to the
Greek Government, 602. And remon
strance to Prince Mavrocordati, 602.
Testimonies to the benevolence and
soundness of his views, 607. Instances
of his humanity and generosity while at
Cephalonia, 607.

1824, Jan. 5., arrives at Missolonghi, 611.

Writes 'Lines on completing my Thirty-
sixth Year,' 615. Intended attack upon
Lepanto, 618. Is made commander-in-
chief of the expedition, 619. Rupture
with the Suliotes, 621. The expedition
suspended, 621. His last Illness, 622.
His Death, 637.
Inscription on
His Will, 665.

his

His Funeral, 641.

Monument, 642.

His person, 45. 72.

His

650. His sensitiveness on the sub-
ject of his lameness, 5. 13. 45. 74
84. 180. 219. 240. 306. 576.
abstemiousness, 113. 202. 214. 319. 463.
His habitual melancholy, 87. 163. 295.
473. 531. 536. 653. His tendency to
make the worst of his own obliquities,
62. 159. 438. 473. 476. His generosity
and kind-heartedness, 45. 84. 92. 150.
203. 224. 235. 286. 420. 482. 484. 521.
538. 595. 607. 614. His politics, 217.
224. 238. 280. His religious opinions,
152. 280. His tendency to superstition,
45. Portraits of him, 174, 175. 178. 207.
221. 258. 260. 262. 272, 273. 352. $58.
377. 516. 555. 559. 562. 565. 571.

581.

Byron, Lady, 184. 273. 283, 284, 285. 288.
293, 294, 296. 425. 431. 435. 580, 581.
609. Her Remarks on Mr. Moore's Life
of Lord Byron, 661.
Lord Byron's letters
to, 534. 581.
Byron, Honourable Augusta Ada, 290. 293.
324. 334, 335. 372. 399. 457. 545. 568.
570. 580, 581. 608.

355.