The reference may be to a review of
the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, which appeared in the _British
Review_, January, 1818, or to a more recent and, naturally, most hostile
notice of _Don Juan_ (No.
the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, which appeared in the _British
Review_, January, 1818, or to a more recent and, naturally, most hostile
notice of _Don Juan_ (No.
Byron
She is a
poetess--a mathematician--a metaphysician. "--_Journal_, November 30,
1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 357]
[615] {578}[The term "renegade" was applied to Southey by William Smith,
M. P. , in the House of Commons, March 14, 1817 (_vide ante_, p. 482).
Sotheby's plays, _Ivan_, _The Death of Darnley_, _Zamorin and Zama_,
were published under the title of _Five Tragedies_, in 1814. ]
[616] [Compare--
"I've bribed my Grandmother's Review the British. "
_Don Juan_, Canto I. stanza ccix. line 9.
And see "Letter to the Editor of 'My Grandmother's Review,'" _Letters_,
1900, iv. Appendix VII. pp. 465-470.
The reference may be to a review of
the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, which appeared in the _British
Review_, January, 1818, or to a more recent and, naturally, most hostile
notice of _Don Juan_ (No. xviii. 1819). ]
[617] [_The Journal de Trevoux_, published under the title of _Memoires
de Trevoux_ (1701-1775, 265 vols. 12? ), edited by members of the Society
of Jesus, was an imitation of the _Journal des Savants_. The original
matter, the Memoires, contain a mine of information for the student of
the history of French Literature; but the reviews, critical notices,
etc. , to which Byron refers, were of a highly polemical and partisan
character, and were the subject of attack on the part of Protestant and
free-thinking antagonists. In a letter to Moore, dated Ravenna, June 22,
1821, Byron says, "Now, if we were but together a little to combine our
_Journal of Trevoux_! " (_Letters_, 1901, v. 309). The use of the same
illustration in letter and poem is curious and noteworthy. ]
[618] {579}[The publication of the _British Review_ was discontinued in
1825. ]
[619] [For "Botherby," _vide ante_, _Beppo_, stanza lxxii. line 7, p.
182, note 1; and with the "ex-cathedra tone" compare "that awful note of
woe," _Vision of Judgment_, stanza xc.
poetess--a mathematician--a metaphysician. "--_Journal_, November 30,
1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 357]
[615] {578}[The term "renegade" was applied to Southey by William Smith,
M. P. , in the House of Commons, March 14, 1817 (_vide ante_, p. 482).
Sotheby's plays, _Ivan_, _The Death of Darnley_, _Zamorin and Zama_,
were published under the title of _Five Tragedies_, in 1814. ]
[616] [Compare--
"I've bribed my Grandmother's Review the British. "
_Don Juan_, Canto I. stanza ccix. line 9.
And see "Letter to the Editor of 'My Grandmother's Review,'" _Letters_,
1900, iv. Appendix VII. pp. 465-470.
The reference may be to a review of
the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, which appeared in the _British
Review_, January, 1818, or to a more recent and, naturally, most hostile
notice of _Don Juan_ (No. xviii. 1819). ]
[617] [_The Journal de Trevoux_, published under the title of _Memoires
de Trevoux_ (1701-1775, 265 vols. 12? ), edited by members of the Society
of Jesus, was an imitation of the _Journal des Savants_. The original
matter, the Memoires, contain a mine of information for the student of
the history of French Literature; but the reviews, critical notices,
etc. , to which Byron refers, were of a highly polemical and partisan
character, and were the subject of attack on the part of Protestant and
free-thinking antagonists. In a letter to Moore, dated Ravenna, June 22,
1821, Byron says, "Now, if we were but together a little to combine our
_Journal of Trevoux_! " (_Letters_, 1901, v. 309). The use of the same
illustration in letter and poem is curious and noteworthy. ]
[618] {579}[The publication of the _British Review_ was discontinued in
1825. ]
[619] [For "Botherby," _vide ante_, _Beppo_, stanza lxxii. line 7, p.
182, note 1; and with the "ex-cathedra tone" compare "that awful note of
woe," _Vision of Judgment_, stanza xc.
