authors come;
Thou printest all--and sellest some--
My Murray.
Thou printest all--and sellest some--
My Murray.
Byron
in the possession of Mr.
Murray,
now for the first time printed. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[96] [Byron must have added the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_ to the
complete edition of the _Poetical Works_ in six volumes. See Murray's
list, dated "Albemarle Street, London, January, 1818. " The seventh
volume of the Collected Works was not issued till 1819. ]
[97] [A French translation of the _Bride of Abydos_ appeared in 1816, an
Italian translation of the _Lament of Tasso_ in 1817. Goethe (see
_Letters_, 1901, v. 503-521) translated fragments of _Manfred_ in 1817,
1818, but the earliest German translation of the entire text of
_Manfred_ was issued in 1819. ]
[98] [See the last line of the Italian translation of the quatrain. ]
TO MR. MURRAY.
1.
Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times,[99]
Patron and publisher of rhymes,
For thee the bard up Pindus climbs,
My Murray.
2.
To thee, with hope and terror dumb,
The unfledged MS.
authors come;
Thou printest all--and sellest some--
My Murray.
3.
Upon thy table's baize so green
The last new Quarterly is seen,--
But where is thy new Magazine,[100]
My Murray?
4.
Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine
The works thou deemest most divine--
The Art of Cookery,[101] and mine,
My Murray.
5.
Tours, Travels, Essays, too, I wist,
And Sermons, to thy mill bring grist;
And then thou hast the _Navy List_,
My Murray.
6.
And Heaven forbid I should conclude,
Without "the Board of Longitude,"[102]
Although this narrow paper would,
My Murray.
Venice, _April 11_, 1818.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 171. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[99] [William Strahan (1715-1785) published Johnson's _Dictionary_,
Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, Cook's _Voyages, etc_. He was
great-grandfather of the mathematician William Spottiswoode (1825-1883).
Jacob Tonson (1656? -1736) published for Otway, Dryden, Addison, etc.
now for the first time printed. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[96] [Byron must have added the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_ to the
complete edition of the _Poetical Works_ in six volumes. See Murray's
list, dated "Albemarle Street, London, January, 1818. " The seventh
volume of the Collected Works was not issued till 1819. ]
[97] [A French translation of the _Bride of Abydos_ appeared in 1816, an
Italian translation of the _Lament of Tasso_ in 1817. Goethe (see
_Letters_, 1901, v. 503-521) translated fragments of _Manfred_ in 1817,
1818, but the earliest German translation of the entire text of
_Manfred_ was issued in 1819. ]
[98] [See the last line of the Italian translation of the quatrain. ]
TO MR. MURRAY.
1.
Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times,[99]
Patron and publisher of rhymes,
For thee the bard up Pindus climbs,
My Murray.
2.
To thee, with hope and terror dumb,
The unfledged MS.
authors come;
Thou printest all--and sellest some--
My Murray.
3.
Upon thy table's baize so green
The last new Quarterly is seen,--
But where is thy new Magazine,[100]
My Murray?
4.
Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine
The works thou deemest most divine--
The Art of Cookery,[101] and mine,
My Murray.
5.
Tours, Travels, Essays, too, I wist,
And Sermons, to thy mill bring grist;
And then thou hast the _Navy List_,
My Murray.
6.
And Heaven forbid I should conclude,
Without "the Board of Longitude,"[102]
Although this narrow paper would,
My Murray.
Venice, _April 11_, 1818.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 171. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[99] [William Strahan (1715-1785) published Johnson's _Dictionary_,
Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, Cook's _Voyages, etc_. He was
great-grandfather of the mathematician William Spottiswoode (1825-1883).
Jacob Tonson (1656? -1736) published for Otway, Dryden, Addison, etc.
