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Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 2)
Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'I have sat up all the night, and devoured every line of it. As a whole it is beautiful, the genuine transcript of his mind and body. But there are passages in it on the score of discretion which can never be sufficiently regretted. I lament this the more because you know the pains I took to prevent it..... The minor and minute detail of those grosser irregularities, to which, for a time, he abandoned himself in the rashness of despair, and when his mind was without an object, should never have been inserted..... I grieve over this beyond measure, becuase so little is wanting to make the book perfect.'
