Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 / With His Letters and Journals

by Thomas Moore

• Machinery, effects of, ii. 123.
• Mackenzie, Henry, esq., his notice of Lord Byron's early poems, i. 126, 127. 157.
• Mackintosh, Sir James, brightest of northern constellations, ii. 238. 242.
  • his review of Rogers in the Edinburgh Review; 281.;
  • a rare instance of the union of very transcendent talent and great good nature; 284.;
  • his letter in the 'Morning Chronicle; iii. 14.;
  • high expectation of his promised history; 17.;
  • strong impression made by him on Lord Byron, 295.
• Macnamara, Arthur, esq, i. 182.
• Mafra, the palace of, the boast of Portugal, i. 281.
• Mahomet, ii. 266.
• Maid of Athens, i. 307. 320.
  • Account of, 308.
• Maintenon, Madame, verses written by Lord Byron in a volume of her letters, i. 85.
• Malamocco, wall of, vi. [366].
• 'MANFRED; A DRAMATIC POEM,' finished; iii. 345.;
  • extracts sent to Mr. Murray; 34.;
  • offered to him for 300 guineas; 354. 366.; iv. 50.;
  • a sort of mad Drama; instructions for its title; iv. 4.;
  • the third act to be re-written; 10. 15.;
  • new third act sent to Mr. Murray; 13.;
  • a critique on; omission of a line; 52.;
  • critique of the 'Edinburgh Review; 67.;
  • a menaced version of the poem; 87.;
  • Goethe's remarks on, iv. 322.
• Mansel, Dr., Bishop of Bristol, i. 115. 188.; ii. 93.
• Manton gun, Lord Byron's, ii. 9.
• 'Manuel,' Mathurin's, iv. 5. 35. 47.
• Marden, Mrs., actress, iii. 176.
• Marianna Segati, iii. 311. 318. 323. 330.; iv. 26.
• 'MARINO FALIERO, DOGE of VENICE; an Historical Tragedy.' Intention to write the tragedy; iii. 348. 371.;
  • commenced; iv. 301.;
  • advanced into the second act.; 311.;
  • completed; 333.;
  • not intended for the stage.; 342.; v. 71. 80. 117. 120-122. 136.;
  • Mr. Gifford's opinion of it; 343. 348.;
  • a note to be introduced; 352.;
  • the author's talent 'especially undramatic; v. 115.;
  • a phrase to be altered; 124.;
  • the poem not popular; 127.;
  • lines to be introduced; 140.
  • reported representation of the play and its condemnation; 176. 180. 190.;
  • a note for the next edition, 211.
• Marlow, his 'Faustus.' iv. 67.
• 'Marmion.' iii. 227.
• Marriage ceremony, iii. 11.
• Marriages, great cause of unhappy ones, iii. 212.
• 'Mary,' Lord Byron's love for the name, vi. [ 415].
• —— of Aberdeen, i. 123 n.
• Massaniello, v. 88.
• Materialism, vi. [259].
• Mathews, Charles, comedian, iii. 164.
• Mathurin, Rev. Charles, iii. 184. 224, 225. 263. 369. 372.; iv. 5. 47.
  • His 'Bertram.' iii. 184.; iv. 65.
  • His 'Manuel,', iv. 5. 35. 47.
• Matlock, Lord Byron at, i. 81.
• Matter, vi. [258].
• Matthews, John, esq., of Belmont, some account of, ii. 40.
• ——, Charles Skinner, esq., i. 96. 181.; ii. 38, 38 n., 39, 39 n., 40. 49. 51. 58. 63.
  • Lord Byron's account of, i. 181.; ii. 38 n., 39. 63.
  • His visit to Newstead, i. 247.
  • Tributes to his memory. ii. 40.
• ——, Henry, esq., ii. 40 n.
  • His 'Diary of an Invalid,' iv. 342.
  • Account of, v. 30.
• ——, Rev. Arthur, ii. 40 n.
• Matthison, Frederic, his 'Letters from the Continent' iii. 250.
• Maugiron, epigram on the loss of his eye, vi. [390].
• Mavrocordato, Prince, vi. [096]. 105. 109. 168.
  • Lord Byron's letters to, vi. [096].
  • Proclamation issued by him, on Lord Byron's death, vi. [213].
• Mawman, Joseph, bookseller, v. 233. 238.
• Mayfield, Mr. Moore's residence in Staffordshire, ii. 223.
• 'MAZEPPA' iv. 137.
• Medicine, effects of, on the mind and spirits, v. 263, 264 n.
• Medwin, Captain, his acquaintance with Lord Byron at Pisa, v. 358, 359.
• Meillerie, iii. 247. 274. 282.
• Melbourne, Lady, ii. 260. 275.; iv. 101.; v. 254.
• Mendelsohn, his habitual melancholy, vi. [397].
• Mengaldo, Chevalier, iv. 158.; v. 131.
• Merivale, J.H., esq., ii. 337.; iii. 9.
  • His 'Roncesvalles,' ii. 337.
  • His review of 'Grimm's Correspondence,' iii. 9.
  • Lord Byron's letter to, ii. 337.
• Metastasio, ii. 252.
• Meyler, Richard, esq., iii. 235.
• Mezzophanti, 'a monster of languages', vi. [ 262].
• Milan cathedral, iii. 299.
  • Ambrosian library at, 300.
  • Brera gallery, 300.
  • Napoleon's triumphal arch, 301.
  • State of society at, 307.
• Milbanke, Sir Ralph, iii. 121. 146. 175. 202.
• ——, Lady. See Noel.
• ——, Miss (afterwards Lady Byron), ii. 285. 338.; iii. 15. 113. 117. 120, 121.
  • See Byron.
• Miller, Rev. Dr., his 'Essay on Probabilities', iii. 119.
• ——, William, bookseller, refuses to publish Childe Harold. ii. 29.
• Millingen, Mr., His account of the consultation on Lord Byron's last illness, 283.
• Milman, Rev. Henry Hart, now Dean of St. Paul's, his 'Fazio' iv. 92.
• Milnes, Robert, esq., i. 182.; ii. 209.
• Milo, iii. 20.
• Milton, his imitation of Ariosto, ii. 111.
  • His practice of dating his poems followed by Lord Byron, i. 153 n.
  • His dislike to Cambridge, i. 196. 198.
  • His infelicitous marriage, iii. 135 n.
  • His disregard of painting and sculpture, iv. 210.
  • His politics kept him down, v. 15.
  • His 'material thunder.' vi. [370].
• Mirabeau, his eloquence, ii. 209.
• 'Mirra,' of Alfieri, effect of the representation of, on Lord Byron, iv. 180, 180 n.
• Missiaglia, Venetian bookseller, iv. 97.
• Mistress, 'cannot be a friend, ii. 275.
• Mitchell, T., esq., his translation of Aristophanes, ii. 206.; iv. 345.
• 'Mobility', vi. [236].
• Modern gardening, Pope the chief inventor of, vi. [408].
• Moira, Earl of (afterwards Marquis of Hastings), ii. 148.
• Molière, v. 81.
• Monçada, Marquis, iv. 72.
• 'Monk,' Lewis's, 'The philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary', ii. 296.
• Mont Blanc, iii. 253.
• Montague, Edward Wortley, ii. 266.
• ——, Lady Mary Wortley, proposed Italian translation of her letters and new life of, iv. 73.;
  • three pretty notes by her, 126.;
  • Pope's lines on her, vi. [395]. [415], [416].
• Montbovon, iii.258.
• 'Monthly Literary Recreations,' Lord Byron's review of Wordsworth's poems in, vi. [293].
• Monti, his Aristodemo, iii. 6.
• ——, account of, iii. 306.
• Moore, Thomas, esq., his prefaces to his 'Life of Lord Byron,' i. 10. 11.
  • His first acquaintance with Lord Byron, ii. 79.
  • Duel between Mr. Jeffrey and, ii. 80.
  • His person and manners described, ii. 268.
  • His poetry, 276.
  • 'LINES on his last Operatic Farce or Farcical Opera,' ii. 65. n.
  • His 'Lalla Rookh,' iii. 359. 365.; iv. 63,; v. 194. 213.
  • His 'Loves of the Angels,' vi. [014].
  • Lord Byron's letters to, ii. 84. 87. 88. 90. 107. 114. 151, 152. 198. 216, 217. 218. 221. 223, 224. 230. 235. 238. 240, 241, 243. 245. 247, 248. iii. 26. 28, 29. 31. 41. 45. 50. 52. 55. 59. 64. 78. 80-82. 84. 86, 87. 94, 95. 100. 104. 107. 112. 114, 115. 118. 120. 138. 142, 143, 145. 147. 149. 151. 153. 155. 167. 169. 173. 180. 187. 189. 195. 200. 204. 304. 311. 315. 337. 348. 357. 359. 368. iv. 4. 27. 44. 79. 93. 102. 132. 272. 313. 317. 325. 327. 335. v. 1. 26. 35. 37. 39. 110. 121. 135. 147. 149. 177. 184. 190. 194. 196. 213. 229. 231. 233. 241, 242, 246. 253. 259, 260. 263, 269. 283. 293, 306. 308, 309, 310. 312. 314. 323, 333. 339. 348. 350. 352. vi. i. [12.] [109.] [169.]
  • See also, ii. 95. 97. 99. 113. 243. 249. 268. 276. 298. 301.; iii. 6. 105. 122. 169. 171. 233.; v. 75, 76. 103. 270.; vi. [009].
• Moore, Peter, esq., iii. 186.
• Morgan, Lady, iv. 86. 336.
  • Her 'Italy,' v. 227. 229.
• ——, Lord Byron's school-fellow at Harrow, i. 64.
• 'MORGANTE MAGGIORE, of Pulci.' translation of the first canto commenced, iv. 279.;
  • finished, 283.;
  • not a line to be omitted, 305. 308.;
  • the author's opinion of it, 343.; v. 118. 240.
• 'Morning Post,' its attacks on Lord Byron, iii. 1. 40. 46. 48.
• Morosini. his siege of Athens, iii. 11.
• Mosaic chronology, vi. [259].
• Mosti, Count, iv. 158.
• Mother, future conduct of a child dependent on the, ii. 35.
• Muir, Mr., letter to, vi. [118].
• Mule, Mrs., Lord Byron's housemaid, iii. 7, 7 n. 146.
• Müller, the historian, iii. 250.
• Muloch, Muley, v. 36.
  • His 'Atheism answered,' iv. 289.
• Murat, Joachim, death of, iii. 290.
• Muratori, v. 96.
• Murillo, Lord Byron's opinion of, iv. 9.
• Murray, John, esq, his first connection with Lord Byron, ii. 30.;
  • Childe Harold placed in his hands, 30. 55.;
  • shows the poem to Mr. Gifford, 61. 64. 66. 70.;
  • purchases the copyright, 138.
  • 'The [Greek: anax] of publishers,' 217.;
  • recommended by Lord Byron to Mr. Moore as 'among the first of the trade,' 243.;
  • offers 1000 guineas for the 'Giaour' and 'Bride of Abydos,' 264. 324., iii. 47.;
  • Lord Byron's high compliment to,192.;
  • pays 1000 guineas for the 'Siege of Corinth' and 'Parisina,' 221.;
  • the 'Mokanna' of publishers,' iv. 44.;
  • offers 1500 guineas for the 4th canto of 'Childe Harold,' 59.;
  • poetical epistle to, 76.;
  • 'Strahan, Tonson, Lintot, of the times,' 96.;
  • conduct to Mr. Moore, v. 223.;
  • Lord Byron's last letter to, vi. [165].;
  • letters and allusions to, passim.
• Music, Lord Byron's love of simple, i. 101. 132.
  • See, also, v. 97, 97 n.
• Musters, Mr. John, his marriage to Miss Chaworth, i. 86.
• Musters, Mrs., i. 258.
  • See Chaworth.
• 'MY BOAT is on the shore,' iii. 237 n.;
• 'MY DEAR Mr. Murray,' iv. 76.

N.

• Napier, Colonel, vi. [099], [109]. [111], [112].
• • His testimony to the benevolence and soundness of Lord Byron's views with regard to Greece, [110].
• Naples, 'the second best sea view, iv. 5.
• Napoleon. See Buonaparte.
• Nathan, his 'Hebrew nasalities,' iii. 153.
• Nature, vi. [362], [363].
• ——, 'PRAYER of.' i. 154.
• 'Naufragia,' Clarke's, ii. 214.
• Nelson, Southey's Life of, ii.268.
• Nepean, Mr., iii. 283.
• ——, Sir Evan, ii. 142.
• Nerni, iii. 283.
• Newstead, granted by Henry VIII. to Sir John Byron, i. 3.
• A prophecy of Mother Shipton's respecting, 33.
• Let to Lord Grey de Ruthen, 79.
• Lord Byron's affection for, 79, 234. 353.; ii. 233.
• Description of, and of the noble owner, 247.
• Attempted sale of, 173. 260.; iii. 112.
• Nicopolis, ruins of, i. 295.
• Night, vi. [259].
• Nobility of thought and style defined, vi. [ 414].
• Noel, Lady, iii. 202.; iv. 2. 10. 337.; v. 190. 306. 336.; vi. [278], [279].
• Norfolk (Charles Howard), twelfth Duke of, ii. 148.
• Nottingham frame breaking bill, ii. 121.
• ——, Lord Byron's residence at, i. 41. 79.
• 'Nourjahad,' a drama, falsely attributed to Lord Byron, ii. 280. 283.
• Novels, ii. 295.

O.

• Oak, the Byron, i. 148.
• 'ODE ON VENICE,' iv. 125.
• O'Donnovan, P.M., his 'Sir Proteus.' iii. 91.
• 'OH! banish care.' ii. 73.
• 'OH! Memory, torture me no more.' i. 85.
• O'Higgins, Mr., his Irish tragedy, iii. 182. 185.
• Olympus, iii. 196.
• O'Neil, Miss, actress, iii. 77.
• Orators, only two thorough ones, in all antiquity, ii. 210.
  • 'Things of ages.' 210.
• Orchomenus, i. 309.
• Orrery, Earl of, his Life of Swift quoted, iii. 133 n.
• Osborne, Lord Sidney, v. 85.
• 'Otello,' Rossini's, iv. 92.
• Otway, his three requisites for an Englishman, ii. 51.
• His 'Beividera.' iii. 371.
• Ouchy, iii. 284.
• Owenson, Miss, iii. 9.
  • See Morgan, Lady.
• Oxford, Gibbon's bitter recollections of, i. 196.
  • Dryden's praise of, at the expense of Cambridge, 198.
• Oxford, Earl of, ii. 173. 180, 181. 213. 217.
• ——, Countess of, ii. 173. 181. 217.

P.

• 'PARISINA,' 1000 guineas offered for it and the 'Siege of Corinth,' by Mr. Murray, iii. 221.
  • Fancied resemblance between part of the poem and a similar scene in 'Marmion.' 227.
• Parker, Sir Peter, stanzas written by Lord Byron on his death, iii. 120.
• ——, Lady, i. 212.
• ——, Margaret, Lord Byron's boyish love for, i. 52.
• Parkins, Miss Fanny, iii. 108.
• PARLIAMENT, Lord Byron's Speeches in, ii. 128. 147. 207. 256.; vi. 314, 321. 335.
• Parnassus, Lord Byron's visit to, and stanzas upon, i. 303.
• Parr, Dr., iv. 135.; v. 79.
• Parry, Captain, vi. [139]. [175] n. [187]. [195]. [217].
• Parruca, Signor, letter to, vi 177.
• Parthenon, vi. [359], [360].
• Pasquali, Padre, iii. 330. 334.; iv. 78.
• Past, 'the best prophet of the future.' v. 89.
• Paterson, Mr. (Lord Byron's tutor at Aberdeen), i. 18.
• Patrons, 8. 340.
• Paul, St., translation from the Armenian, of correspondence between the Corinthians and, vi. [271].
• Paul's, St., Cathedral, comparison with St. Sophia's, i. 329.
• Pausanias, his 'Achaics' quoted, vi. [391].
• Payne, Thomas, bookseller, ii. 67, 67 n.
• Peel, Right Hon. Sir Robert, i. 61 n.
  • Lord Byron's form-fellow at Harrow, 62.; ii. 209.; iii. 322.; iv. 346.
• ——, William, Esq., one of Lord Byron's friends, i. 99.
• Penelope, baths of, Lord Byron's visit to, vi. [074].
• Penn, Granville, esq., his 'Bioscope, or Dial of Life, explained, ii. 170.
• ——, William, the founder of Quakerism, ii. 273.
• Perry, James, esq, v. 136.
• Petersburgh, ii. 233.
• Petrarch, his literary and personal character interwoven., i. x.
  • His severity to his daughter, iii. 127.
  • In his youth a coxcomb., 233 n.
  • His portrait in the Manfrini palace, iv. 8.;
  • his popularity, v. 15.
  • See also, ii. 116 n.
• Phillips, Ambrose, his pastorals, vi. [371].
• ——, S.M., esq, ii. 283.
• ——, Thomas, esq., R.A, iii. 97, 98.
• Philosophers, celibacy of eminent, iii. 134.
• Phoenix, Sheridan's story of the, ii. 163.
• Physic, its effect in raising the spirits, v. 264.
• Pictures, iv. 9.
• Pierce Plowman, i. 148.
• Pigot, Miss,, i. 97. 111. 269.; v. 256, 257 n.
  • Account of her first acquaintance with Lord Byron, i. 98.
  • Lord Byron's letters to, i. 100. 105. 108, 109. 113. 159, 160, 162, 165. 168. 171. 173.
• Pigot, Dr, i. 112.
  • His account of Lord Byron's visit to Harrowgate, 113.
  • Lord Byron's letters to; i. 104. 107, 108. 123. 158.; ii. 31.
• Pigot, Mrs., Lord Byron's letter to, i. 164.
• Pigot, family, i. 28.
• Pindemonte, Ippolito, Lord Byron's portrait of, iv. 32.
• Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, ii. 208.
• Plagiarism, ii. 314.; iii. 177.; iv. 236.; v. 225, 225 n.
• Players, an impracticable people, iii. 185.
• 'Pleasures of Hope.', ii. 98. 240.
• 'Pleasures of Memory.', ii. 240.
• Plethora, abstinence the sole remedy for, iii. 337.
• Poetry, distasteful to Byron when a boy., ii. 7 n.
  • When to be employed as the interpreter of feeling, iii. 231.
  • Addiction to, whence resulting, 241.
  • New school of, iv. 63. 99. 297.
  • 'The feeling of a former world and future', v. 89.
  • Descriptive, vi. [367].
  • Ethical, 'the highest of all, [369].
  • See also, iv. 105. 306.; v. 89. 285.
• Poets, self-educated ones, i. 145.
  • Lord Byron's list of celebrated poets of all nations, i. 146.;
  • Unfitted for the calm affections and comforts of domestic life, iii. 125.
  • Querulous and monotonous lives of, ii. 227.
  • Female, 278.
• See also, v. 95.; vi. [368]. [376].
• Polidori, Dr., iii. 247, 248. 275, 276. 285. 301. 306. 342.; iv. 5. 7. 38, 39. 72. 147. 150. 152.
  • Some account of, iii. 275.
  • Anecdotes of, 278. 301. 306.
  • His 'Vampire, 282 n.; iv. 147.
  • His tragedy, 54.
• Political consistency, vi. [237].
• Politics, ii. 311.
• Pomponius Atticus, ii. 266.
• Pope, Alexander, a self-educated poet, i. 145.
• Lord Byron's enthusiastic admiration of, 226.
• His youth and Byron's compared, 265.
• An example of filial tenderness, ii. 33 n.
• • His Prologue to Cato, 165.
  • His ineffable distance above all modern poets, iv. 64. 139.
  • The parent of real English poetry, 143.
  • Atrocious cant and nonsense about, 297.
  • The Christianity of English poetry, v. 13.
  • Ten times more poetry in his 'Essay on Man' than in the 'Excursion,' 18.
  • Keats' depreciation of, 22.
  • The most faultless of poets, 26.
  • His imagery, 139.
  • The greatest name in our poetry, 150.
  • His Essay upon Phillips's Pastorals a model of irony, vi. [371].
  • The principal inventor of modern gardening, [408].
  • His 'Homer,' v. 138.; vi. [373]. [376]. [413].
  • 'LETTER ON BOWLES'S STRICTURES ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF,' vi. [346].
  • SECOND LETTER, vi. [382].
  • See, also, i. 223.; iii. 219.; v. 33.
• Porson, Professor, his 'Devil's Walk,' ii. 40. 304.
  • Lord Byron's recollection of, iv. 84,
• Portrait painter, agonies of a, vi. [363].
• Pouqueville, M. de, iv. 322.
• Powerscourt, Lord, one of Lord Byron's friends, i. 99. 203.
• Pratt, Samuel Jackson, i. 209. 243.; ii. 54.
• Priestley, Dr., his Christian materialism, vi. [259].
• Prince Regent, iii. 41.; iv. 185.
  • Lord Byron's introduction to, ii. 155.
  • See George IV.
• Prior's Paulo Purgante, iv. 183.
• 'PRISONER OF CHILLON,' iii. 285.; iv. 27.
• Probabilities, Dr. Miller's Essay on, iii. 119.
• Probationary Odes, ii. 169.
• Prologues, 'only two decent ones in our language,' ii. 165.
• 'PROMETHEUS,' of Æschylus, iv. 67.
• 'PROPHECY OF DANTE, in four cantos,' iv. 291. 308.
• Prophets, v. 8. 89.
• Pulci, his 'Morgante Maggiore,' iv. 279. 283. 305. 308. 343.
  • 'Sire of the half serious rhyme,' v. 118. 240. 312.
• Punctuation, ii. 327.

Q.

• Quarrels of Authors, D'Israeli's, iii. 15.
• Quarterly Review, ii. 240.
• 'Quentin Durward,' vi. [115].

R.