Poems on domestic circumstances ; containing 'Fare thee well', 'A sketch from private life', and ... other ... poems. To which are prefixed memoirs of the life of the author ... / by the Rev. J. Nightingale.

  • Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Date:
1816
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Credit: Poems on domestic circumstances ; containing 'Fare thee well', 'A sketch from private life', and ... other ... poems. To which are prefixed memoirs of the life of the author ... / by the Rev. J. Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMOIRS OF #% -i 'j. THE LIFE OF CJe mm J^onontme Of a person who has but just attained his 28th year hut little can be rationally expected in the way of biographical interest or important anecdote. The character of Lord Byron, nevertheless, is one which naturally excites the warmest interests and raises the most urgent wishes for some certain information respecting his family, his habits, and those “ Domestic Circumstances’* which have unhappily, not to say improperly, become the sub¬ ject of general conversation throughout the country. Such infor¬ mation on these points as the Editor of this edition of Lord Byron’s last written poems has been able to collect, shall, there¬ fore, be here given. His Lordship’s ancestors had large possessions in this country as early as the reign of William the Conqueror; for in Doomsda}- book,* it is recorded, that “ Gospatrick held of Ernies de Huron, * Liber, vocat. Doomsday.