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tite noble poet , and pronounced a significant word of him , which certainly implies no love . * This- poet , ' he said , who seems inspired by the genius ofpainS The later writings of Byron had .
however , conquered his first aversion ; and before his lordship ' s 'death they had exchanged civilities by letter . Lord Byron dedi * cated his Werner -c to the illustrious Goethe / ¦ ' We have now reached the period at which our materials fail . The diary ends in 1822 . We have very little to add . He lost his old friend and patron , the Duke of Weimar , in the year 1827 ,
which sensibly affected his spirits . A friend of ours spent five evenings with him ^ in 1829 , when in his eightieth year . He was then an object of unmingled veneration : he retained the full possession of his faculties , and exhibited the dignified repose and cheerful serenity so graceful in old age . He lived ostensibly in a spacious and handsome house at Weimar , with his son and daughter , but , in fact , spent most of his time in a small cottage
in the beautiful park adjoining the town : here , of course , no stranger uninvited went to him . He was accustomed to receive visitors , at least while yet unknown to him , at his town house , and appointed those whom he was willing to see alone , to a t € tea-t 6 te in his garden , where his amanuensis was in attendance . Here he lived with the simplicity of a hermit ; his bed narrow ,
and without curtain , and in his small rooms , nearly without furniture ; maps and engravings of Rome covered the wall ^ . He retained his majestic figure , scarcely stooping ; his eagle eye had lost none of its brightness . The most remarkable , as well as the most delightful , quality of his mind seemed to be , that it had not acquired any bf the moroseness , or selfishness , or distaste , so usually remarked in the aged . He was no laudator temporis acti —he had no jealousy of the ~ rising generation—he appeared to take an interest in everything that interested humanity . So anxious was he to the last of retaining all his personal connexions in life , that he had the practice of requesting all his visitors , whose personal appearance he wished to retain in his memory , to go to an artist in the town , who took a full face portrait , as large as
life , in crayons ; and of these he had collected more than five hundred within a few years . Yet , shortly before his death , his social feelings were doomed to sustain the severest shock in the loss of his only child , who died suddenly at Rome , in the summer of 1830 . It wad feared that this blow would crush him ; bat tie
exercised , even in this the last trial , the great power of self-cqmmand over his tvill , and forced himself to take refuge from afflic- « tion in his old and inexhaustible studies . As far as is yet known , these did not fail him till tbte last hbiir ; for a letter ^ ras riot lon g be * fore the news of his death received in England from his admirable daughter-in-law , his' son ' s widow , who discharged the duties bf . # daughter with exemplify and affectionate ateidinty , ianiibuftciiijaf that he had recently put his last band to the third part of Fauat ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/19/
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