The Poetical Works of Lord Byron Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...Sheridan, all those Who bound the bar or senate in their spell? Young was more than eighty years old when he published bis poem, entitled " Resignation," etc. Where is the unhappy Queen, with all her woes? And where the Daughter, whom the Isles loved well? Where are those martyred saints the Five per Cents? And where--oh, where the devil are the rents? LXXVII. Where's Brummel? Dished. Where's Long Pole Wellesley? Diddled. Where's Whitbread? Romilly? Where's George the Third? Where is his will? (That's not so soon unriddled.) And where is "Fum" the Fourth, our "royal bird?"f Gone down, it seems, to Scotland to be fiddled Unto by Sawney's violin, we have heard: "Caw me, caw thee "--for six months hath been hatching This scene of royal itch and loyal scratching. Lxxviii. Where is Lord This? And where my Lady That? The Honorable Mistresses and Misses? Some laid aside like an old Opera hat, Married, unmarried, and remarried: (this is The old story of the will of George I., said to have been destroyed by George II. No such calumny was ever heard of upon the successors of George III. t See Moore's "Fum and Hum, the Two Birds of Royalty," appended to his " Fudge Family." An evolution oft performed of late.) Where are the Dublin shouts--and London hisses? Where are the Grenvilles? Turned as usual. Where My friends the Whigs? Exactly where they were. LXXIX. Where are the Lady Carolines and Franceses? Divorced or doing thereanent. Ye annals So brilliant, where the list of routs and dances is, --Thou Morning Post, sole record of the panels Broken in carriages, and all the phantasies Of fashion, --say what streams now fill those channels? Some die, some fly, some languish on the Continent, Because the times have ...