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?