George Noel Gordon, Lord BYRON (1788-1824)

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George Noel Gordon, Lord BYRON (1788-1824)
L.A.S., Newstead Abbey 9 septembre 1811, à son cher W. [James Wedderburn Webster]; 4 pages in-4; en anglais.{BR} Lettre à son fol ami James Wedderburn Webster (1789-1840).{BR} ?I think you know the world too well to believe that a laughing chum shews a light heart, but nothing is so selfish as sorrow, it cannot avail the dead, & annoys your living friends, who have their own grievances to dispel without listening to those of others, so let us be cheerful, or at least seem so. ? You are off for Balt. & Ireland & God knows where, well ? I shall not see Dean's Court then, which relieves you from the threatened visit. ? Your brother in law will not have had time to see Athens, or indeed any part of the Levant, if he returns so soon, when I left Greece he was in Sicily. ? I hope you are not displeased with my remarks on your friend's criticisms on my friend's productions, but a man of genius & a scholar of Hodgson's eminence must not be carped at by dilettante dabblers in wit, without some observations, more particularly as you sent me the letter (I suspect) for the facetious purpose of hearing it abused. ? By the bye, such things are hardly fair, I might set men by the ears with great facility. ? The personages honoured by your enquiries are all well, Lucy is at present in Warwickshire, but expected here every day. Lucy Fortescue the chaste meietez of Ld Lytellton (who celebrated her in a thing scribbled before her death by a sort of elegiac anticipation) has certainly great advantage over the other in the article of Vistre. ? I believe that lord will be the ancestor of your heirs, will he not? & so I will say no more about him, his son was always my favourite, in preference to his pious parent. ? So your tutor writes epigrams, help me! & is a German, which does he prefer? the philosophy of Kant or Herder? ? Does he know Weishaupt? Is he one of the Illuminati? Has he a taste for the Teutonic poesy? & which is his favourite, Klopstock, Wieland, Kleist, Goethe, Burger Les
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