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LORD BYRON,

ENGRAVED BY MEYER, FOR" THE LIFE, WRITINGS. OPINIONS, & TIMES, OF THE LORD BYRON, IN 3 VOLS.8VO FROM THE ORIGINAL MINIATURE PAINTED

APRIL 1816, BEING THE LAST HIS LORDSHIP EVER SAT FOR.

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Published No 1. Somerset Street, Portman Square.

THE

LIFE,

WRITINGS, OPINIONS,

AND

TIMES

OF THE

RIGHT HON. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON,

LORD BYRON;

INCLUDING, IN ITS MOST EXTENSIVE BIOGRAPHY, ANECDOTES, AND MEMOIRS
OF THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT AND ECCENTRIC, PUBLIC AND
NOBLE CHARACTERS AND COURTIERS OF THE PRESENT

POLISHED AND ENLIGHTENED

AGE AND COURT OF

HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FOURTH.

In the course of the Biography is also separately given,
COPIOUS RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LATELY DESTROYED MS.
ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION,

AND ENTITLED

MEMOIRS OF MY OWN LIFE AND TIMES,

BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD BYRON.

"CREDE BYRON."-Motto of the Byron Family.

"I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man
"Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug
"With amplest entertainment: my free drift
"Halts not particularly, but moves itself
"In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice
"Infects one comma in the course I hold,
"But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
"Leaving no tract behind."

SHAKSPEARE.-Timon of Athens.

BY AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, IN THE GREEK MILITARY SERVICE, and

COMRADE OF HIS LORDSHIP.

Compiled from authentic Documents and from long personal Acquaintance.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

MATTHEW ILEY, SOMERSET STREET,
PORTMAN SQUARE.

MDCCCXXV.