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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824

"The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6"

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[557] [India; America.]
{425}[558] [Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) began her visits to Newgate in
1813. In 1820 she corresponded with the Princess Sophie of Russia, and
at a later period she was entertained by Louis Philippe, and by the King
of Prussia at Kaiserwerth. She might have, she may have, admonished
George IV. "with regard to all good things."]
{426}[559] [See _The Age of Bronze_, line 768, _Poetical Works_, 1901,
v. 578, note 1.]
[560]
["O for a blast of that dread horn,
On Fontarabian echoes borne,
That to King Charles did come,
When Rowland brave, and Olivier,
And every paladin and peer,
On Roncesvalles died."
_Marmion_, Canto VI. stanza xxxiii. lines 7-12.]
[kj] _Like an old Roman trumpet ere a battle_.--[MS. erased.]
[561] B. Genoa, Oct. 6^th^, 1822. End of Canto 10^th^.


CANTO THE ELEVENTH.

I.
WHEN Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter,"[562]
And proved it--'t was no matter what he said:
They say his system 't is in vain to batter,
Too subtle for the airiest human head;
And yet who can believe it? I would shatter
Gladly all matters down to stone or lead,
Or adamant, to find the World a spirit,
And wear my head, denying that I wear it.


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