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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 Last, yours has ...

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 as man and wife...

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

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 blind­ly...

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 have ...

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 search for? Ho...

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 tax laid on...