A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron With the Countess of Blessington
A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron With the Countess of Blessington
Marguerite Gardiner
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The people he saw resembled not the creatures his fancy had formed, and, with a heart yearning towards his fellow-men, pride and a false estimate of mankind repelled him from seeking their sympathy, though it deprived them not of his, as not all his assumed Stoicism could subdue the kind feelings that spontaneously showed themselves when the misfortunes of others were named. Byron warred only with the vices and follies of his species ; and if he had a bitter jest and biting sarcasm for these, h...e had pity and forbearance for affliction, even though deserved, and forgot the cause in the effect. Misfortune was sacred in his eyes, and seemed to be the last link of the chain that connected him with his fellow-men. I remember hearing a person in his presence revert to the unhappiness of an individual known to all the party present, and, having instanced some proofs of the unhappiness, observe, that the BYRON'S NATIVE GOODNESS 211 person was not to be pitied, for he had brought it on himself by misconduct.
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