FOOTNOTES:
[42] The history of the page is, however, true. Lord Byron was then nineteen years of age. Not to give his mother the grief of seeing that he had made an acquaintance she would have disapproved, he brought Miss —— from Brighton to the Abbey, dressed as a page, that she might pass for her brother Gordon.
[43] See "Newstead Abbey," by Washington Irving.
[44] Moore, vol. i. p. 346.
[45] See Galt, "Life of Lord Byron."
[46] See chapter on "Generosity."
[47] See "Life in Italy."
[48] The heroism of the young Zuleika, says Mr. G. Ellis in his criticism, is full of purity and loveliness. Never was a more perfect character traced with greater delicacy and truth; her piety, intelligence, her exquisite sentiment of duty and her unalterable love of truth seem born in her soul rather than acquired by education. She is ever natural, seductive, affectionate, and we must confess that her affection for Selim is well placed.
[49] "Childe Harold," canto iv. stanza 177.
[50] See "Don Juan," canto xvi.
[51] See chapter on Marriage.
[52] Medwin, p. 13.
[53] See "Life in Italy."
[54] Ibid.
[55] Moore, vol. ii, p. 182.
[56] See "Life in Italy," at Venice.
[57] See "Life in Italy."
[58] Dallas, 171.
[59] Moore, 315.
[60] Moore, first vol.
[61] Moore, 315.
[62] See "Life in Italy."
[63] "He was more a mental being, if I may use this phrase," said Captain Parry, who knew him at Missolonghi, "than any one I ever saw; he lived on thoughts more than on food."