ROYAL FAVOUR.
The Prince of Orange was defeated by the French under Luxemburg, in 1677: in attempting to rally his dispersed troops, the prince struck one of the runaways across the face with his sword. "Rascal!" cried he, "I will set a mark on you at present, that I may hang you afterwards."
JAC-CO.
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For these Lord B. acknowledges his obligation to his excellent friend J.C. Hobbouse, Esq. M.P.
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In "Lives of the Italian Poets." By the Rev. Henry Stebbing, vol. ii.
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Few persons will be disposed to question this extreme sensitiveness, since instances of similar effects on men of genius are by no means rare. Whoever has read Mr. Moore's Life of Byron must have remarked the asperity with which he inveighs against blundering printers in the Letters to Mr. Murray, his publisher.
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"Childe Harold," canto 4, st. xli.
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Notes to lines 1 and 2 of the preceding stanza.
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Lord Byron's conception of Faliero's character and motives appears to us to be mistaken; but what is to be said to the countless impertinences and ingraftments upon history which M. de la Vigne has introduced into his French play on the same subject?
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"Marin Falieri, dalla bella moglie, altri la gode, ed egli la mantiene."
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This officer was chief of the artisans of the Arsenal, and commanded the Bucentaur—for the safety of which, even if an accidental storm should arise, he was responsible with his life. He mounted guard at the Ducal Palace during an interregnum, and bore the red standard before the new doge on his inauguration; for which service his perquisites were the Ducal Mantle, and the two silver basins from which the doge scattered the regulated pittance which he was permitted to throw among the people.—Amelot de la Houssaye, 79.
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