n extraordinary woman: she
could translate _Epictetus_, and yet write a song worthy
of Aristippus. The lines,

"And when the long hours of the public are past,
And we meet, with champaigne and a chicken, at last,
May every fond pleasure that moment endear!
Be banish'd afar both discretion and fear!
Forgetting or scorning the airs of the crowd,
He may cease to be formal, and I to be proud,
Till," &c. &c.

There, Mr. Bowles!--what say you to such a supper with such a
woman? and her own description too? Is not her "_champaigne
and chicken_" worth a forest or two? Is it not poetry? It
appears to me that this stanza contains the "_puree_" of
the whole philosophy of Epicurus:--I mean the _practical_
philosophy of his school, not the precepts of the master; for
I have been too long at the university not to know that the
philosopher was himself a moderate man. But, after all, would
not some of us have been as great fools as Pope? For my part,
I wonder that, with his quick feelings, her coquetry, and his
disappointment, he did no more,--instead of writing some
lines, which are to be condemned if false, and regretted if
true.

INDEX.

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The Roman letters refer to the Volume; the Arabic figures to the Page.

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A.

ABERDEEN, Mrs. Byron's residence at
the day school there at which Lord Byron was a pupil
his allusion to the localities of
affection of the people of, for his memory
Absence, consolations in
Abstinence, the sole remedy for plethora
Abydos, Lord Byron's swimming feat from Sestos to
See Bride of Abydos
Abyssinia, Lord Byron's project of visiting
Academical studies, effect of, on the imaginative faculty
Acerbi, Giuseppe
Acland, Mr., Lord Byron's school-fellow at Harrow
Acting, no immaterial sensuality so delightful
Actium, remains of the town of
Actors, an impracticable race
Ada
See Byron, Augusta-Ada
Adair, Robert, esq.
Adams, John, the Southwell carrier
Lord Byron's epitaph on
Addison, Joseph, his character as a poet
His conversation
His 'Drummer'
'Adolphe,' Benjamin Constant's
Adversity
'AEneid, the,' written for political purposes
AEschylus
His 'Prometheus'
His 'Seven before Thebes'
'Agathon,' Wieland's history of
Aglietti, Dr., MS. letters in his profession offered to Mr. Murray
Albani