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Selec­tions from the the illustrations,verse and audio of a new e‑book ver­sion of Byrons’ com­ic mas­ter­piece, Don Juan”: avail­able in the Apple iBooks store...

1 & 2 Bob Southey! You’re a poet, poet laureate, And rep­re­sen­ta­tive of all the race. Although ’tis true that you turned out a Tory at Las...

26 Don Jóse and the Don­na Inez led For some time an unhap­py sort of life, Wish­ing each oth­er, not divorced, but dead. They lived respectably ...

90 Young Juan wan­dered by the glassy brooks Think­ing unut­ter­able things. He threw Him­self at length with­in the leafy nooks Where the wild branch...

99 A real hus­band always is suspicious, But still no less sus­pects in the wrong place, Jeal­ous of some­one who had no such wishes, Or pan­der­ing blind­...

115 And Julia sate with Juan, half embraced And half retir­ing from the glow­ing arm, Which trem­bled like the bosom where’twas placed. Yet still she must ...

154 ‘And now, Hidal­go, now that you have thrown Doubt upon me, con­fu­sion over all, Pray have the cour­tesy to make it known Who is the man you sear...

183 None can say that this was not good advice; The only mis­chief was it came too late. Of all expe­ri­ence ‘tis the usu­al price, A sort of income t...