Manfred (With Byron's Biography). Lord Byron
168 [For "begun," compare Don Juan, Canto II. stanza clxvii. line 1.]
169 [Compare—
" ... but his face
Deep scars of thunder had intrenched."
Paradise Lost, i. 600.]
bg Summons——.—[MS. M.]
170 "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
Paradise Lost, i. 254, 255.]
171 [In the first edition (p. 75), this line was left out at Gifford's suggestion (Memoirs, etc., 1891, i. 387). Byron was indignant, and wrote to Murray, August 12, 1817 (Letters, 1900, iv. 157), "You have destroyed the whole effect and moral of the poem, by omitting the last line of Manfred's speaking."]
172 [For Goethes translation of the following passages in Manfred, viz (i) Manfred's soliloquy, act 1. sc. 1, line 1 seq.; (ii) "The Incantation." act i. sc. 1, lines 192-261; (iii)Manfred's soliloquy, act ii, sc. 2 lines 164-204; (iv.) the duologue between Manfred and Astarte, act ii. sc. 4, lines 116-155; (v) a couplet, "For the night hath been to me," etc., act iii. sc. 4, lines 3, 4;—see Professor A. Brandl's Goethe-Jahrbuch. 1899, and Goethe's Werke, 1874, iii. 201, as quoted in Appendix II., Letters, 1901. v. 503-514.]
The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt