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 (25) Childe Harold. canto iv, str. xci. 



Can he avonch — Or answer whal he claimed ?. 



Dans la strophe suivante , Byron répond à la vérité : « And 

 toouldbeall ornothing: Il voulait être tout ou rien; » Cette 

 explication ressemble assez à celle que W. Scott a donnée lui- 

 même ; mais je doute qu'elle parût réellement satisfaisante à 

 l'auteur de Childe-Harold. 



(26) Out oftown sixdays. On my return,findmy poor little 

 pagod, Napoléon, pushed offhis pedestal; Byron's Diary, april 8. 



(27) The vision of don Roderick ; W. Scott's poetical works. 



(28) La Revue du mois (Monthly review) s'exprime ainsi à 

 l'occasion de la strophe citée à la note 29 : « We are as ready 

 as any of our countrymen can he , to designate Bonaparte' s in- 

 vasion of Spain hy its proper epithets ; iut we must décline 

 to join in ihe author's dclamation against the low Mrth ofthe 

 invader, andwe cannot help reminding M.^ Scott that such a 

 topic of censure is unworthy of him , both as a poet and as a 

 Briton. 



(29) La strophe xxxix est ainsi conçue : 



From a rude isle his ruder lineage came , 

 The spark , that , from a suburb-hovers hearth 

 Ascending, wraps some capital in flame 

 Hath not a meaner, or more sordid birth. 

 And for llff^ seul that bade him waste the earth , 

 The sable land-flood from some swamp obscure, 

 That poisons the glad husband-field with dearth , 

 And by destruction bids its famé endure, 

 Hath not a source more sullen , stagnant and impure. 



(30) The field of Waterloo, a poem ; W. Scott's poetical works. 



(31) Voir les strophes, xiii, xiv, xv. J'ai traduit la fin de la 



