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PRICE 8d. had better expressed our meaning by calling tible of impressions from the beauties of nature, Byron's an over-susceptible temper. But these for he retained recollections of the scenes which The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt. three, pride of birth, poverty, and a sensitive interested his childish wonder, fresh and glow12mo. pp. 372. London, 1830. Colburn and temper, were the great influences which made ing, to his latest days; nor have there been Bentley. his character. Of the judgments formed of that wanting plausible theories to ascribe the forA MORE original, profound, or correct view of character, we shall only observe, people are de- mation of his poetical character to the contema character as interesting as it was intricate, sirous of seeing a man of genius; they are dis-plation of those romantic scenes. But, whoone whose seeming contradictions were at once appointed if he is like themselves, and discon- ever has attended to the influential causes of such materials for theories, and such temptations tented if he is not. The faults we indulge in character, will reject such theories as shallow, to erect them, was never taken than in the ourselves we least easily excuse in others, and and betraying great ignorance of human navolume before us. Mr. Galt's plan is a history vanity is one of those faults too general to be ture. of Lord Byron's mind rather than of himself; generally pardoned. Personally acquainted with "The views of the Malvern hills recalled to a condensation of events and effects according Lord Byron, a man of genius himself, Galt, his memory his enjoyments amidst the wilder as they bore upon works whose attraction was like Moore, brings much of previous qualifica- scenery of Aberdeenshire. The recollections at once derived from, and afterwards reflected tion to the task; and it is curious to observe were reimpressed on his heart and interwoven on their author. Few persons have been more how little they have trenched on each other's with his strengthened feelings. But a boy unfortunate in those circumstances over which ground. Galt's is a literary and philosophic gazing with emotion on the hills at sunset, they have no control, such as birth, fortune, view: no one can possess this volume without because they remind him of the mountains education, &c. than Byron. No distinctions having a just idea of the man and the poet, an where he passed his childhood, is no proof that take a stronger hold on the mind than hereditary analysis of character as accurate as it is original, he is already in heart and imagination a poet. ones. We have not time to discuss the jus- and a condensation of all the events of a very To suppose so, is to mistake the materials for tice of the pride of birth; but it is a pride so varied life. It is valuable as in itself a com- the building. The delight of Byron in consanctified by time, as to seem rather innate pendium of his history; but it is invaluable as templating the Malvern hills was not because than acquired, -one administered to by the a commentary on all that have gone before they resembled the scenery of Lochynagar, but legends told for the amusement, and the annals it is a finished cabinet picture. We would because they awoke trains of thought and fancy, read for the information, of youth; one to not, however, lose one preceding fragment re-associated with recollections of that scenery. which the respect conceded seems of a higher lating to an individual whose history affords such The poesy of the feeling lay not in the beauty order than that given to riches, inasmuch as it great insight into human nature, and whose in- of the objects, but in the moral effect of the is more disinterested. Pride of birth is one of trinsic interest will survive all the little gossip- traditions, to which these objects served as the most influential of those feelings which goings and small disputes of the hour. The sub- talismans of the memory. The scene at suntowards forming a character. It was one of the ject is too exciting not to lead to the expres-set reminded him of the Highlands; but it was keys to Byron. Secondly, poverty: it is easy sion of some sentiments of our own; but we those reminiscences which similar scenes reto declaim philosophically on the folly of lux- do both the public and Mr. Galt injustice, in called that constituted the impulse, which gave ury, the needlessness of many wants and cer- delaying to enter on pages so replete with life and elevation to his reflections. There is tain appliances; but while wealth commands charm and information. The following admi- not more poesy in the sight of mountains than the consideration no one can deny it does in rable delineation of genius shews the true feel- of plains; it is the local associations that throw our present state of society, the absence of that ing with which the author enters on his work. enchantment over all scenes, and resemblance wealth will be keenly felt, not for its luxury, "Genius of every kind belongs to some in- that awakens them, binding them to new conbut for its power: the privations of poverty nate temperament; it does not necessarily nexions: nor does this admit of much controare nothing to its mortifications. There can be imply a particular bent, because that may pos-versy; for mountainous regions, however fano doubt, that the loss of what his family pride sibly be the effect of circumstances; but with-vourable to musical feeling, are but little to held to be necessary to its dignity, was another out question, the peculiar quality is inborn, poetical. The Welsh have no eminent bard; great source of that bitterness, and that affecta- and particular to the individual. All hear and the Swiss have no renown as poets; nor are tion of reserve, which, under the name of dig-see much alike; but there is an undefinable the mountainous regions of Greece, or of the nity, was some wounded feeling shrinking into though wide difference between the ear of the Appennines, celebrated for poetry. The Highits own shadow: we deceive no one so much as musician, or the eye of the painter, compared lands of Scotland, save the equivocal bastardy we deceive ourselves. Thirdly, temper: and with the hearing and seeing organs of ordinary of Ossian, have produced no poet of any fame, every page of Mr. Galt's work bears us out in men; and it is in something like that differ-and yet mountainous countries abound in local our long-established belief of the great influence ence in which genius consists. Genius is, how-legends, which would seem to be at variance Lord Byron's bad temper exercised upon his ever, an ingredient of mind more easily de- with this opinion, were it not certain, though life. Now, we must own, good temper is one scribed by its effects than by its qualities. It I cannot explain the cause, that local poetry, of those qualities we like rather than either is as the fragrance, independent of the fresh-like local language, or local melody, is, in prorespect or admire, a compound usually the ness and complexion of the rose; as the light portion to the interest it awakens among the result of cowardice and indolence, or, at best, on the cloud; as the bloom on the cheek of local inhabitants, weak and ineffectual in its of animal spirits: it is very difficult for a beauty, of which the possessor is unconscious influence on the sentiments of the general person of warm affections and vivid ima- until the charm has been seen by its influence world. The Rans de Vaches,' the most celegination, which so exaggerates the impres- on others; it is the internal golden flame of brated of all local airs, is tame and commonsions it receives, to be a good temper, whose the opal; a something which may be abstracted place,-unmelodious, to all ears but those of grand secret is, after all, indifference. But from the thing in which it appears, without the Swiss forlorn in a foreign land."" we draw a wide distinction between one of those worrying, peevish, dissatisfied dispositions, whose miseries are as petty as the mind which makes them, and indulgence in which is a positive enjoyment to the proprietor; and one whose sensibility is too keenly awakened, and whose feverish anxiety for the opinion it covets, keeps up that state of morbid excitement which must have a re-action of gloom. We 11 changing the quality of its substance, its form, How just, again, are the remarks on the in- "He was, undoubtedly, delicately suscep We reserve the preface, in which Mr. Galt delivers his opinion of Mr. Moore's Memoirs, for future discussion; that preface contains also other matter well worthy of our consideration.-Ed. L. G. The following observations on Byron's feeling of love are as just as they are original. "It is singular, and I am not aware it has been before noticed, that, with all his tender and impassioned apostrophes to beauty and love, Byron has in no instance, not even in the freest passages of Don Juan, associated either the one or the other with sensual images. The extravagance of Shakspeare's Juliet, when She walks in beauty like the light she speaks of Romeo being cut after death into By them he has been described as a malignant | the 13th of March, 1809, he presented himself stars, that all the world may be in love with imp; was often spoken of for his pranks by in the House of Lords alone, a proceeding night, is flame and ecstasy compared to the icy the worthy housewives of the neighbourhood consonant to his character, for he was not so metaphysical glitter of Byron's amorous allu-as" Mrs. Byron's crockit deevil;" and gene- friendless nor unknown, but that he might sions. The verses beginning with rally disliked for the deep vindictive anger he have procured some peer to have gone with retained against those with whom he happened him. It however served to make his introducto quarrel." tion remarkable. On entering the house, he is a perfect example of what I have conceived It is remarkable that, though the faults of our is described to have appeared abashed and pale. of his bodiless admiration of beauty and object-childhood are comparatively slight and unim- He passed the woolsack without looking round, less enthusiasm of love. The sentiment itself portant, yet they are always those most deeply and advanced to the table where the proper is unquestionably in the highest mood of the remembered and brought against us in after officer was attending to administer the oaths. intellectual sense of beauty; the simile is, how-life. The next anecdote we select as one to When he had gone through them, the chanever, any thing but such an image as the beauty redeem many darker specks. cellor quitted his seat, and went towards him of woman would suggest. It is only the re- "Towards his nurse he evinced uncommon with a smile, putting out his hand in a friendly membrance of some impression or imagination affection, which he cherished as long as she manner to welcome him; but he made a stiff of the loveliness of a twilight applied to an lived. He presented her with his watch, the bow, and only touched with the tip of his finobject that awakened the same abstract general first he possessed, and also a full-length minia-gers the chancellor's hand, who immediately idea of beauty. The fancy which could con- ture of himself, when he was only between returned to his seat. Such is the account given ceive in its passion the charms of a female to seven and eight years old, representing him of this important incident by Mr. Dallas, who be like the glow of the evening, or the general with a profusion of curling locks, and in his went with him to the bar; but a characteristic effect of the midnight stars, must have been hands a bow and arrow. The sister of this circumstance is wanting. When Lord Eldon enamoured of some beautiful abstraction, rather woman had been his first nurse; and after he advanced with the cordiality described, he exthan aught of flesh and blood. Poets and lovers had left Scotland he wrote to her, in a spirit pressed with becoming courtesy his regret that have compared the complexion of their mis- which betokened a gentle and sincere heart, the rules of the house had obliged him to call tresses to the hues of the morning or of the informing her with much joy of a circumstance for the evidence of his grandfather's marriage. evening, and their eyes to the dew-drops and highly important to himself. It was to tell her Your lordship has done your duty, and no the stars; but it has no place in the feelings that at last he had got his foot so far restored more,' was the cold reply, in the words of Tom of man to think of female charms in the sense as to be able to put on a common boot, an event Thumb, and which probably was the cause of of admiration which the beauties of the morn- which he was sure would give her great plea- the marked manner of the chancellor's cool ing or the evening awaken. It is to make the sure: to himself it is difficult to imagine any return to his seat. simile the principal. Perhaps, however, it may incident which could have been more gratibe as well to defer the criticism to which this fying." peculiar characteristic of Byron's amatory effusions give rise, until we shall come to estimate his general powers as a poet. There is upon the subject of love, no doubt, much beautiful composition throughout his works, but not one line in all the thousands which shews a sexual feeling of female attraction-all is vague and passionless, save in the delicious rhythm of the The following is an example (and there are many others) of the great care with which Mr. Galt observed minute facts with reference to their poetical influence on Lord Byron's mind. "Among other remarkable characters pointed out to us, was a nobleman in the pit, actually Much has been said of the weakness of thus under the ban of outlawry for murder. I have dwelling on a personal deformity; but we do often wondered if the incident had any effect think only those who suffer under such a mis-on the creation of Lara; for we know not in fortune can tell its bitterness. The wrong and what small germs the conceptions of genius falsehood of such a style of poetical criticism originate.” as the Edinburgh Review indulged in, is most justly reprobated. We cannot but observe how completely almost all its predictions of poetical fame have been falsified, and how all our great We much like the ensuing. English poets have made their way in defiance "The supposition that poets must be dream-of criticism as flippant as unjust. Byron, "But the most important occurrence of that ers, because there is often much dreaminess in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Montgomery, alike evening arose from a delicate observance of poesy, is a mere hypothesis. Of all the pro- had in their onset to contend with the same etiquette on the part of the ambassador. After fessors of metaphysical discernment, poets re- bitter and frivolous attacks. These are now carrying us to his box, which was close to that quire the finest tact; and contemplation is with standard names in our literature: but where of the royal family, in order that we might see them a sign of inward abstract reflection, more there is no feeling, there can be no appre-the members of it properly, he retired with than of any process of mind by which resem-ciation. verse." blance is traced, and associations wakened. "He was then just come of age, or about to Lord Byron to another box, an inflection of manners to propriety in the best possible taste for the ambassador was doubtless aware that his lordship's rank would be known to the audience, and I conceive that this little arrangement was adopted to make his person also known, by shewing him with distinction apart from the other strangers. When the performance was over, Mr. Hill came down with Lord Byron to the gate of the upper town, where his lordship, as we were taking leave, ian, the Earl of Carlisle, to remind him that thanked him with more elocution than was he should be of age at the commencement of precisely requisite. The style and formality of the session, in the natural hope that his lord- the speech amused Mr. Hobhouse, as well as ship would make an offer to introduce him to others; and, when the minister retired, he the house; but he was disappointed. He only began to rally his lordship on the subject. But received a formal reply, acquainting him with Byron really fancied that he had acquitted the technical mode of proceeding, and the eti-himself with grace and dignity, and took the quette to be observed on such occasions. It is jocularity of his friend amiss a little banter therefore not wonderful that he should have ensued the poet became petulant, and Mr. resented such treatment; and he avenged it by Hobhouse walked on; while Byron, on account those lines in his satire, for which he after- of his lameness, and the roughness of the pavewards expressed his regret in the third canto of ment, took hold of my arm, appealing to me, if His Childhood." His schoolfellows, many Childe Harold. Deserted by his guardian at a he could have said less, after the kind and hosof whom are alive, still recollect him as a crisis so interesting, he was prevented for some pitable treatment we had all received. Of lively, warm-hearted, and high-spirited boy, time from taking his seat in parliament, being course, though I thought pretty much as Mr. passionate and resentful, but withal affectionate obliged to procure affidavits in proof of his Hobhouse did, I could not do otherwise than and companionable: this, however, is an opi-grandfather's marriage with Miss Trevannion, civilly assent, especially as his lordship's comnion given of him after he had become cele- which having taken place in a private chapel fort, at the moment, seemed in some degree brated; for a very different impression has at Carhais, no regular certificate of the cere-dependent on being confirmed in the good unquestionably remained among some, who mony could be produced. At length, all the opinion he was desirous to entertain of his own carry their recollections back to his childhood. necessary evidence having been obtained, on courtesy. From that night I evidently rose in We have chosen these more abstract remarks to shew the style and spirit of Mr. Galt's biography. We shall now turn to such incidents as are either new in themselves, or possess some new inference drawn by the writer. |