France, xi. 282.; xiii. 338. 352. 355.
Bouts rimés, xvii.

Bowers, Mr., (Lord Byron's school-
master at Aberdeen,) i. 17.
Bowles, Rev. William Lisle, his con-
troversy concerning Pope, v. 29. 37.
98. 138. 152.; vi. 350, 351. 353. 'The
maudlin prince of mournful son-
neteers,' vii. 244. His Spirit of
Discovery,' vi. 348.; vii. 245. His
'invariable principles of poetry,' vi.
His hypochondriacism, 396.
His Missionary,' 406.

355.

traduce Pope, vii. 247.

Bolivar, Simon, v. 342, 343 n. ; xiv. 276.
Bologna, Lord Byron's visit to the
cemetery of, iv. 161.

Bolton, Mr., ii. 43. 47, 48.

'Bonne fortune,' xvii. 139.

vi. 44. 49. 60. 92. 98, 99. 101. 107.
Boxing, ii. 271.

Bradshaw, Hon. Cavendish, iii. 170.
Braham, John, the singer, ii. 260.;
iii. 145.

'Brandy for heroes!' xiv. 305.

'British Critic,' ii. 259.; xv. 13. 48.
British Review,' its character of the
'Giaour,' ii. 229. Its abuse of
'Don Juan,' xv. 14. My Grand-
mother's Review,' 194.
Lord Byron's Letter to the Editor
of,' xv. 41.

Brocken, superstition of the, xiii.
313.

Broglie, Duchess of (daughter of
Mad. de Staël), her character, iii.
285 n.

Anecdote of, iv. 150. Her
remark on the errors of clever
people, vi. 260.

Bronze wolf of Rome described,
viii. 230. 312.

Brooke, Lord (Sir Fulke Greville),
account of a MS. poem by, ii. 181.
Brougham, Henry, esq. (afterwards
Lord Brougham and Vaux), iii. 12.;
vii. 187. 255. 255 n.

Broughton, the regicide, his monu-
ment at Vevay, iii. 256.
Brown, Dr. Thomas, his Paradise of
Coquettes,' xv. 95.

Isaac Hawkins, his lava but-

tons, iii. 124.
Browne, Sir Thomas, his
Medici' quoted, ii. 315.
mium on sleep, xvi. 16.
Bruce, Mr. i. 348.; ii. 9.

Religio

His enco-

--, Abyssinian, his description of
a simoom, ix. 159.
Brummell, William, esq., iii. 236.;
xi. 127.

Bruno, Dr., vi." 55.

128.

Anecdote of,

Brunswick, Duke of, his death at
Quatre-bras, viii. 143.
Brussels, iii. 243. 245.
Brutus, xvii. 181.

Bryant, Jacob, on the existence of
Troy, v. 70.; xvi. 37.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, his Letters on
the Character and Poetical Genius
of Byron,' ii. 195.; xv. 34. His
Ruminator, ii. 271. Critical notes
by, vols. vii.-xvii.
Bucentaur, viii. 198.

Buchanan, Rev. Dr., ii. 232 n.
Bucke, Rev. Charles, ii. 188.

Budgell, Eustace, his leap into the
Thames,' ix. 104.

Bull fight, description of a, viii. 50.
52 n.
Buonaparte, Jacopo, his Sacco di
Roma,' xi. 282.

-, Lucien, his Charle-
magne,' ii. 93. n. 234.

Napoleon, ii. 35. 240. 261.;
iii. 3. 21. 37. 63. 155, 156. 172. 234.;
xvi. 33. The Triptolemus of the
British farmer,' xiv. 290. His ex-
clamation on the loss of his old
guard, xvi. 324.; xvii. 147.
His character, viii. 148. xv. 111.
'ODE to,' iii. 63. 172 n. x. 1.

'LINES on his escape from Elba,'
x. 273.

Burdett, Sir Francis, ii. 130. 151. His
style of eloquence, ii. 209.
Burgage tenures and tithes, discord's
torches,' xvii. 215.

Burgess, Sir James Bland, iii. 184.;
xv. 82. His Richard the First'
sold to line trunks, ix. 94. ; xv. 82.
Burgoyne, General, xv. 110.
Burke, Edmund, viii. 6.
Burlesque, xvi. 6.

Burney, Dr., his character of Jewish
music, x. 75, 76.

Burns, Robert, his habit of reading
at meals, i. 139 n. His elegy on
Maillie, 223. What would he have
been, if a patrician?' ii. 257. His
unpublished letters, 302. His rank
among poets, vi. 377. Often coarse,
but never vulgar,' 413. His youth-
ful pranks, xv. 326.

Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,'
'a most amusing and instructive
medley,' i. 144.

Burun, Ralph de, i. 1.
Busby, Dr., Dryden's reverential
regard for, i. 57.

Thomas, Mus. Doct., his mo-
nologue on the opening of Drury
Lane Theatre, ii. 177. 180. 182. His
translation of Lucretius, ii. 262.;
iii. 58. Parody on his monologue,
xvii. 241.

Butler, Dr., (head master at Harrow,)

i. 64. 87. 167. 200, 201. Reconci-
liation between Lord Byron and,
270. Lines on his being appointed
head-master at Harrow,' vii. 37.
Portrait of, 130. 130 n.

Byng, Admiral, his court-martial,
viii. 28.

BYRON, Sir John, the Little, with the
great beard, i. 4.

- Sir John, created (1643) Baron
Byron of Rochdale ; some account
of, i. 5.

Sir Nicholas, his character by
Lord Clarendon, vii. 17 n.

Sir Richard, tribute to his
valour and fidelity, i. 6.

Admiral John (the grand-
father of the poet), i. 6. His pro-
verbial ill-luck at sea, x. 202. His
shipwreck and sufferings, xv. 232.
'My grand-dad's Narrative,' 257.
Extract from, 257 n.

William, fifth Lord (grand-
uncle of the Poet), i. 6. His trial
for killing Mr. Chaworth in a duel,
7. His death, 29. His eccentric
and unsocial habits, 30.

John (father of the poet),
his elopement with Lady Carmar-]
then, i. 7. His marriage with Miss
Catherine Gordon, 7. His death
at Valenciennes, 16. His character,
vii. 136 n.

Mrs. (mother of the poet),
descended from the Gordons of
Gight, i. 6. Vehemence of her
feelings, 6. Ballad on the occa-
sion of her marriage, 8. Her for-
tune, 9 n. Separates from her
husband, 12. Her capricious ex-
cesses of fondness and of anger,
13. 38.

Lord Byron's Letters to, ii. 217.
220. 233. 268. 290. 313. 328. 337. 340.
350. 353. 356.; xiii. 305.

See also, i. 101. 104, 105. 107. 347. ;
ii. 32. 35. 39.; v. 3.; viii. 15. 61.

Honourable Augusta (sister of
the poet), i. 7. See Leigh, Ho-
nourable Augusta.

His

1790-1791. Taken by his mother
to Aberdeen, i. 11. Impetuosity
of his temper, 12. Affectionate
sweetness and playfulness of his
disposition, 13. The malform-
ation of his foot a source of pain
and uneasiness to him, 14.
early acquaintance with the
Sacred Writings, 14. Instances
of his quickness and energy, 15.
Death of his father, 16.
1792-1795. Sent to a day-school at
Aberdeen, i. 17. His own account
of the progress of his infantine
studies, 18. His sports and exer-
cises, 20.
1796-1797. Removed into the
Highlands, i. 21. His visits to
Lachin-y-gair, 22. First awaken-
ing of his poetic talent, 22. His
early love of mountain scenery,
Attachment for Mary Duff,

25.

26.

1798. Succeeds to the title, i. 29.

Made a ward of Chancery, under
the guardianship of the Earl of
Carlisle, and removed to New-
stead, 33. Placed under the care
of an empiric at Nottingham for
the cure of his lameness, 41.
1799. First symptom of a tendency
towards rhyming, i. 42. Removed
to London, and put under the
care of Dr. Baillie, 44. Becomes
the pupil of Dr. Glennie, at Dul-
wich, 44.

1800-1804. His boyish love for his
cousin, Margaret Parker, i. 52.
His first dash into poetry,' 52.
Is sent to Harrow, 54. Notices
of his school life, 60. His first
Harrow verses, 61. His school
friendships, 66. His mode of life
as a schoolboy, 76. Accompanies
his mother to Bath, 78. His early
attachment to Miss Chaworth,
79. Heads a 'rebelling' at Har-

row, 86. Passes the vacation at

Southwell, 92.

1805. Removed to Cambridge, i. 92.

His college friendships, 93.
1806. Aug.-Nov., prepares a col-
lection of his poems for the press,
i. 110. His visit to Harrowgate,
113. Southwell private theatricals,
116. Prints a volume of his
poems; but, at the entreaty of
Mr. Becher, commits the edition
to the flames, 118.
1807. Publishes Hours of Idle-
ness,' i. 129. List of historical
writers whose works he had
perused at the age of nineteen,
140. Reviews Wordsworth's
Poems, 169. Begins Bosworth
Field,' an epic. Writes part of
a novel, 175.

1808. His early scepticism, i. 177.
Effect produced on his mind by
the critique on Hours of Idle-
ness,' in the Edinburgh Review,
204. Passes his time between the
dissipations of London and Cam-
bridge, 210. Takes up his resi-
dence at Newstead, 216. Forms
the design of visiting India, 220.
Prepares English Bards and
Scotch Reviewers,' for the press,
226.

1809. His coming of age celebrated

at Newstead, i. 227. Takes his
seat in the House of Lords, 235.
Loneliness of his position at this
period, 241. Sets out on his tra-
vels, 251. State of mind in which
he took leave of England, 259.
Visits Lisbon, Seville, Cadiz,
Gibraltar, Malta, Prevesa, Zitza,
Tepaleen, 277. Is introduced to
Ali Pacha, 277-288. Begins
Childe Harold' at Ioannina, in
Albania, 313. Visits Actium, Ni
copolis; nearly lost in a Turkish
ship of war; proceeds through
Acarnania and Etolia towards
the Morca, 301. Reaches Misso.
longhi,302. Visits Patras, Vostizza,
Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Le.

panto, Thebes, Mount Citharon,
303. Arrives, on Christmas-day,
at Athens, 305.

1810. Spends ten weeks, in visiting
the monuments of Athens; makes
excursions to several parts of At-
tica, 307. The Maid of Athens,
310. Leaves Athens for Smyrna,
312. Visits ruins of Ephesus, 313.
Concludes, at Smyrna, the second
canto of Childe Harold,' 313.
April, leaves Smyrna for Constan-
tinople, 315. Visits the Troad, 316.
Swims from Sestos to Abydos, ibid.
May, arrives at Constantinople,
323. June, expedition through the
Bosphorus to the Black Sea, 325.
July, visits Corinth, 341. Aug.-
Sept., makes a tour of the Morea,
340. Returns to Athens, 346.
1811. Writes Hints from Horace,'
and Curse of Minerva,' 350. Re-
turns to England, $54. Effect of
travel on the general character
of his mind and disposition, ii. 1.
His first connection with Mr.
Murray, 30. Death of his mother,
31. Of his college friends, Mat-
thews and Wingfield, 39. 50. And
of Thyrza,' 75. Origin of his
acquaintance with Mr. Mocre, 79.
Act of generosity towards Mr.
Hodgson, 108.

1812. Feb. 27., makes his first
speech in the House of Lords, ii.
120. Feb. 29., publishes the first
and second cantos of Childe
Harold,' 131. Presents the copy-
right of the poem to Mr. Dallas,
138. Although far advanced in a
fifth edition of English Bards,'
determines to commit it to the
flames, 145. Presented to the
Prince Regent, 153. Writes the
Address for the opening of Drury
Lane theatre, 158.

1813. Auril, brings out anony-
mously The Waltz,' ii. 187.
May, publishes the Giaour,' 188.
His intercourse, through Mr.
Moore, with Mr. Leigh Hunt, 204.

Makes preparations for a voyage
to the East, 217. Projects a jour-
ney to Abyssinia, 232. Dec.,
publishes the Bride of Abydos,'
312. Is an unsuccessful suitor for
the hand of Miss Milbanke, 338.
1814. Jan., publishes the Corsair,'
iii. 24. April, writes Ode on the
Fall of Napoleon Buonaparte,'
63. Comes to the resolution, not
only of writing no more, but of
suppressing all he had ever
written, 70. May, writes' Lara ;'
makes a second proposal for the
hand of Miss Milbanke, and is ac-
cepted, 113. Dec., writes' Hebrew
Melodies,' 141.

1815. Jan. 2., marries Miss Mil-
banke, ii. 139. April, becomes
personally acquainted with Sir
Walter Scott, 159. May, becomes
a member of the sub-committee
of Drury Lane theatre, 170. Pres-
sure of pecuniary embarrass-
ments, 191. July, writes the
'Siege of Corinth,' x. 100. Sept.,
writes Parisina,' 151.

1816 Jan., Lady Byron adopts the
resolution of separating from him,
iii. 198. Samples of the abuse
lavished on him, 216 n. March,

writes Fare thee well,' and' A
Sketch,' 229. April, leaves Eng-
land, 238. His route-Brussels,
Waterloo, &c., 243. Takes up his
abode at the Campagne Diodati,
246. Finishes, June 27, the third
canto of Childe Harold,' 247.
Writes, June 28, The Prisoner
of Chillon,' 285. Writes, in July,
'Monody on the Death of Sheri-
dan,' the Dream,' Darkness,'
'Epistle to Augusta,' Churchill's
Grave,' Prometheus,' Could
I remount,''Sonnet to Lake Le-
man,' and part of Manfred,' 287.
August, an unsuccessful negoti.
ation for a domestic reconcili
ation, 284. Sept., makes, a tour
of the Bernese Alps, 256. His
intercourse with Mr. Shelley, 269.

Oct., proceeds to Italy route,
Martigny, the Simplon, Milan,
Verona, 297-308. Nov., takes
up his residence at Venice, 311.
Marianna Segati, 311. Studies the
Armenian language, 312.
1817. Feb., finishes Manfred,' iii.
345. March, translates from the
Armenian, a correspondence be-
tween St. Paul and the Corin-
thians, 370. April, visits Ferrara,
and writes Lament of Tasso,'
iv. 11. Makes a short visit to
Rome, and writes there a new
third act to Manfred,' 13. July,
writes, at Venice, the fourth canto
of Childe Harold,' 48. Oct.,
writes Beppo,' 66.

1818.

·

The Fornarina, Margaritta
Cogni, iv. 112. July, writes' Ode
on Venice,' 125. Nov., finishes
Mazeppa,' 137. And first canto
of Don Juan,' xv. 99.

1819. Jan., finishes second canto of
'Don Juan,' iv. 139. April, be-
ginning of his acquaintance with
Countess Guiccioli, 143. June,
writes Stanzas to the Po,' 155.
Aug., writes Letter to the Editor
of my Grandmother's Review,'
xv. 41. Dec., completes the third
and fourth cantos of Don Juan,'
iv. 262. Removes to Raverna, 270.
1820. Jan., domesticated with
Countess Guiccioli, iv. 276. Feb,
translates first canto of the Mor-
gante Maggiore,' 279. March,
finishes Prophecy of Dante,'
291. Translates 'Francesa of
Rimini, 293. And writes Ob-
servations upon an Article in
Blackwood's Magazine,' 308.
April-July, writes Marino Fa-
liero,' 333. Oct.-Nov., writes
fifth canto of Don Juan,' v. 37.
1821. Feb., writes Letter on the
Rev. W. L Bowles's Strictures on
the Life of Pope,' v. 99. March,
'Second Letter,' &c. 143. May,
Sardanapalus,' 187.
July, The Two Foscari,' 197.

finishes