. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... covery. He ruse to l>c anidniirul, and connnanded in the West In-j edition. On his coming of age, Byron BYR her ultimate prtTercnce of an older his nineteenth year he quitted the uni-versity, and look up his residence at thefamily .<cat of Newstead. It was duringhis rcnidence at .Newstead tliat he |)ublieh-cd his first work, witli the title of Hoursof Idleness. This volume gave undoubtedindications of talent; but the EdinburghReviewers pounced upon it with a rabidviolen
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... covery. He ruse to l>c anidniirul, and connnanded in the West In-j edition. On his coming of age, Byron BYR her ultimate prtTercnce of an older his nineteenth year he quitted the uni-versity, and look up his residence at thefamily .<cat of Newstead. It was duringhis rcnidence at .Newstead tliat he |)ublieh-cd his first work, witli the title of Hoursof Idleness. This volume gave undoubtedindications of talent; but the EdinburghReviewers pounced upon it with a rabidviolence that was thoroughly soon found, however, to their cost,that they had made a wrong selection oftheir victim. His lordshi|) retorted uponthem in English Bards and Scottish Re-viewers, one of the most pun;,ent satires ofmodern times, and thus rendered them ob-jects of public laughter. In consequenceof his having become tiie friend of severalof the inilividuals satirised, he suppressedthis satire after it had reached a fourth dies, during the American took place in 1786. His de-. BYRON, Gkorof. GoRnoN, LordByron, the fxm of Captain Byron, who wasnotorious for his dissipated conduct, andof Mirs ricirdon, was born at Dover, Januaiy Ihe , 178S. Pescrted by her busl)and, who had squandered hei fortune,and who died not long after his desertionof her, Mrs. Byron retired with her sonto Alx-rdeen, where, possessed of a veryconfined income, she lived in perfectiiecbision. The youthful Byron was ofdelicate health, in consequence of whichhis studies were often interrupted, and hewas treated with an indulgence that, perhaps, went beyond the bouiuls of pnidenccBy the death of his great uncle, in 1798,ne succeeded to the family title and estates,and liecame a ward of his relative, the took his seat in the of peers; but inthat house he never delivered more thanthree speeches. He was now cnj^aged ina career of dissi|)ation which was injuriousaJike to his f
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