Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES TO THE CORSAIR. The time in this poem may seem too short for the occurrences, but the whole of the Egean isles are within a few hours sail of the continent, and the reader must be kind enough to take the trind as I have often found it. Note 1, page 36, line 4. Of fair Olympia loved and left of old. Orlando, Canto 10. Note 2, page 43, line 16. Around the wave/ phosplwric brightness broke. By night, particularly in a warm latitude, every stroke of h e oar, every motion of the boat or ship, is followed by a slight flash like sheet lightning from the water. Note 3, page 49, line 5. Though to the rest the sober berry's juice. Coffee. Note 4, page 49, line 7. The long Chibouque's dissolving cloud supply. Pipe. Note 5, page 49, line 8. While dance the Almas to u-ild minstrelsy. Dancing-girls. Note to Canto II. page 50, line 5. It has been objected that Conrad's entering disguised as a spy is out of nature.--Perhaps so. I find something not unlike it in history. "Anxitus to explore with his own eyes the state of the Vandals, Majorian ventured, after disguising the colour of his hair, to visit Carthage in the character of his own ambassador; and Genseric was afterwards mortified by the discovery, that he had entertained and dismissed the Emperor of the Romans. Such an anecdote may be rejected as an improbable fiction; but it is a fiction which would not have been imagined unless in the life of a hero." Gibbon, D. and F. Pol. XI. p. 180. That Conrad is a character not altogether out of nature I shall attempt to prove by some historical coincidences which I have met with since writing " The Corsair." "Eccelin prisonnier" dit Rolandini, " s'enfermoit dans un silence menacant, il fixoit sur la terre son visage feroce, et ne donnoit point...
