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Astarte: a Fragment of Truth
Lady Milbanke to Lady Byron, 3 March 1816
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Introduction
Preface
Contents
I. Byron Characteristics
II. Three Stages of Lord Byron’s Life
III. Manfred
IV. Correspondence of Augusta Byron
V. Anne Isabella Byron
VI. Lady Byron’s Policy of Silence
VII. Informers and Defamers
VIII. “When We Dead Awake”
IX. Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh (I)
X. Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh (II)
XI. Byron and Augusta
Notes by the Editor
Appendix
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“I neither do, or can expect that you should not feel and deeply feel—but I have sometimes thought (and that not only lately) that Your mind is too high wrought—too much so for this World—only the grander objects
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engage your thoughts, Your Character is like Proof Spirits—not fit for common use—I could almost wish the Tone of it lowered nearer to the level of us every day people, and that You would endeavor to take some interest in every day concerns—believe me, by degrees, You will find the benefit of it—I have not slept on a Bed of Roses thro’ my life—I have had afflictions and serious ones, tho’ none so Severe as the present—Yet in my sixty-fifth Year, I have endeavored to rally, and shall rally, if You do so—

“Now my Love here is a Sundays Sermon for You—and here it shall end—”