- 198 — 

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



Can he avouch — Or answer what he claimed ?. 



Dans la strophe suivante , Byron repond a la v^rite : « And 

 would be all ornothing: II voulait etre tout ou rien; » Cette 

 explication ressemble assez a celle que W. Scott a donnee lui- 

 meme ; mais je doiite qu'elle parut reellement satisfaisante a 

 I'auteur de Childe-Harold. 



(26) Out of town six days. On my return, find my poor little 

 pagod, Napoleon, pushed off his 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 h 

 I'occasion de la strophe citee a la note 29: « We are as ready 

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

 vasion of Spain by its proper epithets ; but we must decline 

 to join in the author's dclamation against the low birth of the 

 invader, and we 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 congue : 



From a rude isle his ruder lineage came. 

 The spark , that , from a suburb-hovel's hearth 

 Ascending, wraps some capital in flame 

 Hath not a meaner, or more sordid birth. 

 And for tji^ soul that bade him waste the earth , 

 The sable land-flood from some swamp obscure, 

 That poisons the glad husband-tield with dearth , 

 And by destruction bids its fame 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 xui, xiv, xv. J'ai traduit la tin de la 



