The Prisoner of Chillon
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Excerpt from The Prisoner of Chillon: With Selections From Childe Harold and Mazeppa George Gordon Noel Byron was born in London on January 22, 1788. His father was John Byron, a captain in the British army, and nephew of Lord William Byron of Newstead Abbey, Nottingham, England. His mother was Catherine Gordon, daughter of George Gordon, a gentleman of high family and considerable landed estate in Aberdeenshire. Scotland. Captain Byron was a man of disreputable character and extravagant habits. He squandered nearly all his wife´s means, and when he died in 1792 there was but a small income left to support the widow and her infant child, then living in the city of Aberdeen. Lord William Byron died in 1798. As he had no children, his property and title descended to his grandnephew, George, who thus at the age of ten years became Lord Byron. The mother and son then removed to Newstead, the ancient home of the Byrons and soon afterwards the young lord was sent to the famous school of Harrow, and subsequently to Trinity College, Cambridge. To his mother´s injudicious indulgence has been partly attributed the waywardness that marked his subsequent career. Lord Byron was not what would be called a good student. At Harrow, as he tells us himself, he was "always cricketing, rebelling, fighting, and in all manner of mischiefs." But though he neglected his class studies, he was a great reader of books, particularly books of history, biography, poetry, and fiction. Before he was fifteen years of age he had read histories of all the principal countries of the world, lives of most of the celebrated men of ancient and modern times, and nearly all the British poets. To this early and extensive study of English writers, as one of his biographers remarks, may be attributed that mastery over his own language with which Lord Byron came equipped into the field of literature, and which enabled him as fast as his youthful fancies sprung up to clothe them in words worthy of their beauty. Byron began writing poetry at the age of twelve, and at the age of nineteen he published a collection of his verses under the title "Hours of Idleness." These youthful productions, not of very high merit, were severely criticised by the "Edinburgh Review." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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