... a ^B A TRAGEDY. BY LORD BYRON. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 1823. LONDON: TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A Stranger presumes to offer...literary vassal to his liege lord, the first of existing writers—who has created the literature of his own country, and illustrated that of Europe.—The...

...Nature'* debt and mine. [Curtain falli. 472 S ARD AN AP ALUS, A TRAGEDY. 'HIE ILLUSTRIOUS GftTIIE. ience with the tragic stuff. Yet attheir judgment IcthisLordship la liege-lord, the first of existing writers, who has created the literature of his own country and illustrated...

...all rules whatsoever. Where he has failed, the failure is in the architect, — and not in the art. THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER...THE AUTHOR VENTURES TO INSCRIBE TO HIM IS ENTITLED SABDANAPALUS. DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN. SARDANAPALUS, King of Nineveh and Assyria, <Jr. ARBACES, the Mede...

...THE HOMAGE OP A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIBGB LORD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITERS, WHO HAS CREATED TBB LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY AND ILLUSTRATED THAT...THE AUTHOR VENTURES TO INSCRIBE TO HIM IS ENTITLED SARDANAPALUS. PREFACE. IN publishing the Tragedies of Sardanapalus, and of Tke Two Foscari, I have...

...to-night.' — The memory of that fine poem seemed to act like a spell of horrible fascination upon him.1* TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER...THE AUTHOR VENTURES TO INSCRIBE TO HIM IS ENTITLED SARDANAPALU&O) (1) [" Well knowing myself and my labours, in my old age, I could not but reflect with...

...pre-eminence — a. Mag.] A TRAGEDY.1 TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OP are of no use ; he at last goes to the very abode...evócate a ghost, which appears, and gives him an ambiguo UNWOHTHY PRODUCTION WHICH THE UTHOB YEKTUR IB ENTITLED SARDANAPALUS.» I TO INSCRIBE TO HIM PREFACE....

...when that wish becomes mutual. SARDANAPALUS, A TRAGEDY. TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER FRE8UMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OF A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE...THE AUTHOR VENTURES TO INSCRIBE TO HIM IS ENTITLED SARDANAPALUS. PREFACE. IN publishing the following Tragedies I have only to repeat, that they were...

...higher pitch of pre-eminence than be ever before attained — M. -Voff j SCENE III. 244 A TRAGEDY.1 tion, to a higher pitch of pre-eminence than be ever...attained — M. -Voff j SCENE III. 244 A TRAGEDY. ОГ EXISTING WRITERS, WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COL'NTUY, AN» ILLUSTRATED THAT OF...

...31st October, 1776. * Byron's Swdanapalus (1821) is dedicated to Goethe in the following words : — 'To The Illustrious Goethe A stranger presumes to...of his own country And illustrated that of Europe.' Byron also thought of dedicating Marino Faliero to him ; and a jocular letter of his to Goethe on the...

...LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE LOKD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITER! WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE QF nd mine was thankful till m'y eyee Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment SARDANAPALUS. PREFACE. IN publishing the tragedies of Sardanapalus and the Two Foscari, I have only...