LORD  BYRON  and  his  TIMES
Byron
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Recollections of Writers
Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, 18 February [1844?]
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX
John Keats
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Leigh Hunt
Douglas Jerrold
Charles Dickens
Index
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Kensington, February 18th.

My dear Victoria,—I send you overleaf the manifest passage. Your clue (“the end of a paragraph”) enabled me
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to find it almost instantly at p. 20 of the London Journal. Sempre Clarke-issimo.

L. H.

“We see in the news from Scotland, that at the interment of the venerable widow of Burns (Bonnie Jeannie Armour, who we believe made him a very kind and considerate wife) the poet’s body was for a short time exposed to view, and his aspect found in singular preservation. An awful and affecting sight! We should have felt, if we had been among the bye-standers, as if we had found him in some bed, in the night of Time and space, and as if he might have said something! grave but kind words of course, befitting his spirit and that of the wise placidity of Death, for so the aspect of death looks. A corpse seems as if it suddenly knew everything, and was profoundly at peace in consequence.”