[95]
HIS father's sense, his mother's grace,
In him, I hope, will always fit so;
With--still to keep him in good case--
The health and appetite of Rizzo.
HIS father's sense, his mother's grace,
In him, I hope, will always fit so;
With--still to keep him in good case--
The health and appetite of Rizzo.
Byron
8vo, 1820.
]
[90] [_The Life of Mary Queen of Scots_, by George Chalmers, 2 vols.
4to, 1819. ]
[91] [Thomas Gordon (1788-1841) entered the Scots Greys in 1808. Two
years later he visited Ali Pasha (see _Letters_, 1898, i. 246, _note_ 1)
in Albania, and travelled in Persia and Turkey in the East. From 1813 to
1815 he served in the Russian Army. He wrote a _History of the Greek
Revolution_, 1832, 2 vols. , but it does not appear that he was
negotiating with Murray for the publication of any work at this period. ]
[92] _Vide_ your letter.
[93] [Probably Sir Robert John Wilmot (1784-1841) (afterwards Wilmot
Horton), Byron's first cousin, who took a prominent part in the
destruction of the "Memoirs," May 17, 1824. (For Lady Wilmot Horton, the
original of "She walks in beauty," see _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 381,
_note_ I. )]
[94] [Stanzas 12, 13, 14 cannot be published. ]
ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER.
[95]
HIS father's sense, his mother's grace,
In him, I hope, will always fit so;
With--still to keep him in good case--
The health and appetite of Rizzo.
_February_ 20, 1818.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 134. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[95] [Richard Belgrave Hoppner (1786-1872), second son of John Hoppner,
R. A. , was appointed English Consul at Venice, October, 1814. (See
_Letters_, 1900, iv. 83, _note_ I. ) The quatrain was translated (see the
following poem) into eleven different languages--Greek, Latin, Italian
(also the Venetian dialect), German, French, Spanish, Illyrian, Hebrew,
Armenian, and Samaritan, and printed "in a small neat volume in the
seminary of Padua. " For nine of these translations see _Works_, 1832,
xi. pp. 324-326, and 1891, p. 571. Rizzo was a Venetian surname. See W.
[90] [_The Life of Mary Queen of Scots_, by George Chalmers, 2 vols.
4to, 1819. ]
[91] [Thomas Gordon (1788-1841) entered the Scots Greys in 1808. Two
years later he visited Ali Pasha (see _Letters_, 1898, i. 246, _note_ 1)
in Albania, and travelled in Persia and Turkey in the East. From 1813 to
1815 he served in the Russian Army. He wrote a _History of the Greek
Revolution_, 1832, 2 vols. , but it does not appear that he was
negotiating with Murray for the publication of any work at this period. ]
[92] _Vide_ your letter.
[93] [Probably Sir Robert John Wilmot (1784-1841) (afterwards Wilmot
Horton), Byron's first cousin, who took a prominent part in the
destruction of the "Memoirs," May 17, 1824. (For Lady Wilmot Horton, the
original of "She walks in beauty," see _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 381,
_note_ I. )]
[94] [Stanzas 12, 13, 14 cannot be published. ]
ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER.
[95]
HIS father's sense, his mother's grace,
In him, I hope, will always fit so;
With--still to keep him in good case--
The health and appetite of Rizzo.
_February_ 20, 1818.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 134. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[95] [Richard Belgrave Hoppner (1786-1872), second son of John Hoppner,
R. A. , was appointed English Consul at Venice, October, 1814. (See
_Letters_, 1900, iv. 83, _note_ I. ) The quatrain was translated (see the
following poem) into eleven different languages--Greek, Latin, Italian
(also the Venetian dialect), German, French, Spanish, Illyrian, Hebrew,
Armenian, and Samaritan, and printed "in a small neat volume in the
seminary of Padua. " For nine of these translations see _Works_, 1832,
xi. pp. 324-326, and 1891, p. 571. Rizzo was a Venetian surname. See W.
