Thomas Moore’s biography of Lord Byron was severely criticised, both for what it contained and for what it omitted. That Moore, the cherished friend of the great poet, should display all the faults and frailties of Lord Byron was ungenerous and ungrateful, but his ill-judged suppression of certain important matters of fact was far more inexcusable and damaging to Byron’s reputation.
A Ballad made for the delectation
of all True Sportsmen.
Prince Albert is a sportsman bold,
And eager for the chase,
Out with the hounds, like Gilpin oft
He seems to ride a race.
And oft in Windsor’s courtly Park
He loves to ply the gun,
Where hares so well bred are, that they