...recollect all our caresses, . . . my restlessness, my sleeplessness. My misery, my love for that girl were so violent, that I sometimes doubt if I have ever been really attached since. When I heard of her being married, ... it nearly threw me into convulsions.' 1 ' My passion had its...

...recollect all our caresses, . . . my restlessness, my sleeplessness. My misery, my love for that girl were so violent, that I sometimes doubt if I have ever been really attached since. When I heard of her being married, ... it nearly threw me into convulsions.' 1 ' My passion had its...

...strangely, occurred : "Hearing of her marriage several years after" (when he was about sixteen), he says, " hich am I to b everybody." Alfieri tells us that these precocious attachments are a sign of great powers of intellect....

...diary. He avers that the news of Mary Duff's marriage was " like a thunder-stroke, it nearly ehoked me, to the horror of my mother, and the astonishment and almost ineredulity of everybody." Byron's preeoeity, therefore, was not intelleetual, but emotional. In l796,...

...all oar caresses, . . . my restlessness, my sleeplessness. My misery, my love for that girl were- no violent, that I sometimes doubt if I have ever been really attached since. When I heard of her being married, ... it nearly threw me into convulsions.'1 ' My passion had its...

...intense. At the age of eight he fell in love with a Scotch girl, Mary Duff, of Aberdeen. He says, " My love for that girl was so violent that I sometimes...doubt if I have ever been really attached since." Ruskin, in alluding to her when she was Mrs. Cock burn, says : " She had been Lord Byron's first of...

...Aberdeen, while her lesser sister Helen played with the doll, and we sat gravely making love, in our way. so violent, that I sometimes doubt if I have ever...after was like a thunder-stroke— it nearly choked me—to the horror of my mother and the astonishment and almost incredulity of every body. And it is...

...I certainly had no sexual ideas for years afterwards; and yet my misery, my love for that girl were so violent, that I sometimes doubt if I have ever...hearing of her marriage several years after was like a thunder-stroke—it nearly choked me—to the horror of my mother and the astonishment and almost incredulity...

...deuce did all this occur so early? Where could it originate? My misery, my love for that girl were so violent, that I sometimes doubt if I have ever been really attached since." But the all-powerful flame that burnt so brilliantly was destined soon to be extinguished. Alas ! the...

...with telling it to all her acquaintance." And then again : " My misery, my love for that girl were so violent that I sometimes doubt if I have ever been...hearing of her marriage several years after was like a thunder stroke — it nearly choked me — to the horror of my mother and the astonishment and almost...