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Calfskin-covered notebook with vertical flap and cord (6" x 4"); 188pp, MS In part...

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HD/14/e
Date
1827
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Calfskin-covered notebook with vertical flap and cord (6" x 4"); 188pp, MS In part a daily journal from 27 June to 13 July 1827 (pp. 1-15); remainder of book contains draft poetry, some copied from other notebooks, and some notes, including

Pp.47-49 Eagles

Pp.49-50 Thoughts after the ingratitude of the Northumbrian with respect to the safety lamp

Pp.50-51 To a child; daughter of P. and AB.

Pp.53-54 Though grey thy hair ...

Pp.55-56 Oh, let the breezes ...

Pp.57-65 An attempt by the Priests to imitate Moses.

Pp.66-71 And he had wandered by the pleasant side of silver Jordan ...

Pp.72-74 The massy pillars of the earth ....

Pp.76-78 In ... when spring and summer reign ...

Pp.79-82 I catch but dimly inspirations faint ....; August 1819

Pp.83-89 The effect of tears in calming the mind.

P.90 He who passes from flower to flower ...; August 1819

Pp.91-92 Thus brightest round the stagnant pool arise ....

Pp.94-95 Around his brow ....

P.97 Ye lovely hills that rise in majesty ...; Ullswater, 4 August 1825

Pp.98-100 Whatever burns, consumes; ashes remain ....: Copenhagen, 1 August 1825

Pp.101-104 Ashburnham Place, 22 January 1823

Pp. 106-108 Lord Byron, written whilst living.

P.110 additions to Byron poem

Pp.116-118 Dialogue: the Unknown

Pp.119-121 Man thirsts for immortality ...

Pp.121-122 Full twenty summers now have passed away ....

Pp.124-126 My faith, O Roman ....

P.126 Evening at Nice, 1814

P.127 note on education

Pp.128-130 To Josephora Dettela, 16 August 1827

P.131 supplement to poem on death of Lord Byron, 28 July 1827

Pp.132-133 On the fate of Mr Mann

Pp.134-135 The pleasures past which never can return ....

Pp.135-136 On virtue

Pp.137-138 The ignorance of all things. 1 March

Pp.139-146 Dialogue: the Unknown. 31 May 1827

Pp.147-148 The human intellect ...

Pp.149-150 For time has withered all the lovely flowers ...; 20 April 1827

Pp.151-154 Again that lamp from half its orb ...; 1819

Pp.155-156 When life was mine ...; 5 April

Pp.157-160 And may not all this varied life of man ...; 1819

Pp.161-162 On the death of Lord Byron: November 1824

P.163 Our human histories ...; 2 April 1827

P.164 Our life is like a cloudy sky ....; 2 April 1827

Pp.165-166 It is alone ....; 5 August 1825

P.167 And when the light ....; 1825

P.168 Then on his soul flashed the bright images ....; 1 April

P.169 We know not whence our origin we drew ....; 12 February 1825

Pp.174-176 Nought do we truly know of man ....

Pp.178-179 Lady S. and Lord E.

Pp.180-182 On the bubbles ....; December 1823

Pp.182-183 Thought; 1827

Pp.184-186 London; 1824

[Note: pp. 16-46, blank]

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Royal Institution of Great Britain
Language
English
Record URL
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