Excerpt from Byron's Malach Hamoves The author's preface to the second edition of Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries fairly bristles with invective against the liars, dogs canting rogues, cowards, hypo crites, born slaves, calumniators, shal low fellows, and knaves who, prompted by a sense of common decency and justice, had been stirred to resentfulness by the contents of his pages on Byron. From this tirade the reader passes on to what promises to be a high ly seasoned repast which the elusive preface seems to ...
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Excerpt from Byron's Malach Hamoves The author's preface to the second edition of Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries fairly bristles with invective against the liars, dogs canting rogues, cowards, hypo crites, born slaves, calumniators, shal low fellows, and knaves who, prompted by a sense of common decency and justice, had been stirred to resentfulness by the contents of his pages on Byron. From this tirade the reader passes on to what promises to be a high ly seasoned repast which the elusive preface seems to foreshadow. It is so worded as to lead one to suspect that it is the portal to a veri table feast of scandal and revelation, to be read only in the secret of one's chamber; but the anticipated feast dwindles into a mess of bones, devoid of meat or marrow. Hunt says, among other things, that he had been told that his book should put an end to a great deal of false biography. It doubtlessdid, for when he got through there was but little left in that line to be added by any one else. He says that had he been rich enough to repay the handsome advances of his publisher, his first impulse on finishing the work would have been to put it into the fire. The Judas of old is also said to have faltered before he finally decided to betray his Master; but his lust for gold smothered his better impulses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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