FOOTNOTES:
[87] She had dedicated to him a small collection of poems, which she sent to Pisa, in 1821, with a letter, to which she received no answer.
[88] "All that," says she, "lives in my heart and soul, as if these things had taken place a few weeks ago, instead of so many years" (1864).
CHAPTER XV.
GENEROSITY A HEROISM.
PARDON, MAGNANIMITY.
It remains for us to examine Lord Byron's generosity under another form. I mean that which, after having passed by different degrees of moral beauty, may reach the highest summit of virtue, and become the greatest triumph of moral strength, because it overcomes the most just resentments, forgives, returns good for evil, and constitutes the very heroism of Christian charity.
Did Lord Byron's generosity really attain such a high degree? To convince ourselves of it, we must again examine his life.
Clemency and forgiveness showed themselves in Lord Byron at all periods of his life. In childhood, in youth, though so passionate, and so sensitive at school and at college, so soon as the first explosion was over, he was ever ready to make peace.