New-York tribune., 1870-01-04
Prom Temple Bar. December. 1859
TIE BRIDE OF ABYDOS.

year ls3 Lord Byron under great horror OF some
crime which he identify with that OF which Mrs
Stowe him. All that Mr. Moores book tels vi
Mrs Leigh and IL tells nothing unfavorabe, shall first be
given The plea that Lord Byron ie fanfaron des
rees qln naroit pas that he the victim OF mono
MANIA which drove him TO pretend that he was an Inn
possible SINNER shall be noticed and something OF MS
life and conversation before marriage shall be shown
for the purpose OF nerrng that the man was guilty
gwen crime, because he seems capable OF anything
but to prove that ordinary oense. no adultery, no
accumulation OF adultere could have INFLICTED the agony
of remorse that he suffered. 49,,
1t common guilt that shook LORD Byron with an
agony of remorse in November. 1873 Adultery-aggra
1ssd S 6m hs dwe Without
the most revolving crime Let us look al MS letters
and at the private journal which Mr. Moore has opened
TO enable indulge harmessy that TASTE as general
it is natural which leads us TO contemplate WIN
pleasure great mind in undress. and TO rejoice in the
discovery cOnsOlng 10 human PRIDE that even the
mighest in their moments OF ease and weakness resem
on the 27th OF September 1Sl3 he wrote to Mr. Moore
odd. visitor in the same house which came
to my sire as residence with Lady Carmarthen (wlth
whom he adulterated before his majortty-by the-by,
remember. she not INV manma) and they thrust me
into old room with nauseous picture over the en
ney which should suppose my papa regarded Win Gue
respect, and which, nherting the family taste looked
with great satlsactlOn stayed week VIII M ,o
family. and behaved very well though the lady OF the
house young and religious and pretty and the master
my particular friend felt 10 wish for anything Dut
poOdedOc which they kindly gave me. NOW, Tor man
of my not to have c0Ueed Is sign OF great
amendment Pray pardon all this NONSENSE ana doh'
'snub me when I'm IN spirits"
Again, on the sth of December 1873: When was at
=, my first visit have habit, IN passing my time
good deal alone. of wont ea It singing Tor taat
think tunes, your On breathe not, Mheh the iass
GLIMPSE, and When he who adores thee with others o
the minstrel; they are my mathis and Yespers
assuredy did not intend them to be overheard but one
incoming in comes not La Donna, but III Mario, with
very grave lace, saying % moe san Stared
and said, Certainly but why TO tell You the truth
that wish her to hear no more Of theIn.'"
April deter to MOORE 81 have Also more or less,
been breaking few of the fsvorite commandments; but
mean TO pull up and marry II any one VIII nave me .
Speaking Of lady whom Moore had WIS wished r MN 70
bly, married that is il the other had been equally ac-
cordantl, with the indifference which has frozen
over the Black Sea OF almost all my passions III Is
that very indifference which makes me uncertain,
and apparently capncous. IL Is not eagerness OF new
pursuits. but that nothing npresses sufficiently 10
hx neither do feel disguised. but simply Indifferent
TO almost all eXcements."
that in which he suffered an agony OF remoTse until con
drove him to seek forgetfulness OF the real in
the imaginary may prove that he would not have been
shaken by the memory OF a common crime
In considering the horror that came upon him In
November 1873, and what went before and followed We
must be contont - walk by uncertain ginpses We
want lght-not partial and sudden flashes from
dark lantern, perpeX aud cOnfOund but full clear.
steady light. Unt that is vouchsafed our steps may
sometimes stumble. aud we may wander into passages
In December, 1912, Lord Byron who had been visiting
Lord oxford proposed to JON william Banks G IN GREECE
ready TO go to Sicily with the family OF Lord oxford
About the end Of June the OxfOrds sailed without him
why does appear may be because he inclined
10 be seriously enamored OF Lady'A f. and disposed
take wife On the Sth Of July he mentions that Mrs.
Leigh was in town. and that not having been much to-
gether they naturally more attached TO each other
Greece and had ordered about dozen snuff-boxes as
presents his old Turkish acquaintance. He was pre-
vented from sailing because he could not compass a
passage in ship ofwar, which, however offered by
Mr. Croker the beginning of August 1t seems, from
Moore Of the 22d Of August that he supposed he
had taken his last leave OF Newstead, which he
about sell He regrets that he had left 1t Just as
Moore coming to reside IN the neighborhood In the
same letter he says Moore would wonder he had not
gone but the accounts Of the plague very perpe1
ing probable that the plague but excuse for
lettering for on the 2sh Of August he wrote After all
end in marriage, and | can conceive nothing
delightful than such state in the countryreading
the county newspaper; &c, and kissing ones wlies
maid. seriously, would incorporate with any woman
OF decent demeanor tomorrow-that IS, would month
It would seem that in September and in October lsl3
he paid visits TO Aston Hail. near Rotterdam and
visited the house which had come TO his father from
north OF Newstead Abbey and about twelve miles south
west OF Doncaser on his first visit beng reproached
for low spirits, he wrote al Impromptu-beginning
"when from the heart where Sits
my thousnt' their dungeon know TOO we'll
And bleed within their silent cell"
On the l4th Of November, ,rls3 he began Journal and
wrote in 1t: GIVE me Mussulman who never asks
questions, and she OF the who the
low fever and Newstead delay; should have been by
this time second time close TO the Euxine II can
and any rate the spring shall see me there provided
neither marry myself nor unmsrry any one else in the
is odd never set myself seriously to wishing without
Then he thus mentions Zuleka afterwards called The
Bride of AbydOs mo more reflections. Let me See.
Last night finished z0e6a G ny SECOND aSTss tale
written to drive my thoughts from the recollection NJ
At least, here my hand would tremble TO wr il.
This afternoon have burnt the scenes Of my commeL
The name unrevealed was. beyond reasonable doubt.
that to which he alluded as the victim aud
not i5lss &C. rot breathe ,s.I. .S sy IN.
Nov I7.-"f wish could settle 10 reading again. Ny
life monotonous. and yet desutory. take mp books,
IT, because the ran into reaiity-a novel for the
same reason. In rhyme can Keep more away from
fact but the thought always runs through-through
Nov. 2s-"I have been ponderng on the miseries Of
yet we live ages in moments whea met"
Nov S0-In letter to Mr. Moore, he writes; 4" Since
different, not 70 make forget you but 10 prevent
from reminding OF who, nevertheless has often
measure, have frequently been consolation. We were
once very neighbors this Autumn; and good and
that your French quotation confoundedy the pnr
pOseIthough very uneTYeetsdy pertinent as you may
However, Richard Is himself again, and. except all
night and some part OF the morning. don't think very
'Ali convusions end with me in rhyme and to solace
my midnghts. have scribbled another Turkish story.
this and published it for the sake of employment TO
wiring my thoughts from reality and take refuge in I'M
and viii be the reading Of an hour 10 you, or even less
80 let IL 10. ."
We now return 10 the journal After mentioning The
Giaour and the icy recollection
Dec, 6-"The Bride Of Abydos was published on Thurs
day the 2d OF December; but how II Is liked dlsked,
know not Whether IL succeeds fault OF the
public against whom can , have no complaint But am
most partial reader as wrung my thoughts from reality
10 imagination" ..... ..-.....
Dec. 6.-"I began IL The Bride of Abydos) with my
heart fun OF, and my head full of orfental6es Il
can't call them sD's, and wrote on rapidly"
~ a "A fxull fhA
first part OF The Bride and some story Of his"
Dec. IL and IA" BY Galts answer, and 10 IL some
story In real Hfe and not work with which
composition comedies. II Is eth more singular for mine
Is drawn from ersfeJioe also"