Word: guiccioli
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Sighed the beautiful Countess of Guiccioli, Who slept with Lord Byron habitually: "How I wish that George Gordon Would give up his lordin' And attend to his pleasures less ritually...
...melancholy reflection that Thackeray's lost limerick about the Countess Guiccioli might have gained him a greater literary immortality than his shelf of great novels. May I suggest...
Sixpence per Line. With intimates, Thackeray's conversation was "decidedly loose" (lost forever, presumably, is the remainder of his limerick about "...the Countess Guiccioli Who slept with Lord Byron habitually"). He enjoyed going to pubs, or, as one enemy described it:"[He] not infrequently condescends to wither mankind through his spectacles from one of the marble tables." His love of bad puns was notorious ("A good one is not worth listening to"). Said a friend: "I recollect him now, wiping his brow after trying vainly to help the leg of a tough fowl, and saying he was 'heaving...
...annoyance of his mistress' husband, Byron's rooms at the Palazzo Guiccioli were soon "full of conspirational gear and mysterious documents . . . local liberals." Once, when the police were active, the Gambas even let Byron keep "a bag full of bayonets, some muskets, and some hundreds of cartridges." When the revolt finally fizzled (Byron always suspected it would), Byron, Teresa and the Gambas were exiled, at last settled down at Pisa...
Shocked by Shelley's death, bored by Teresa Guiccioli, worn out by living with the Leigh Hunts (whose very modern children Byron called a "draal of Hottentots") Byron decided to go to Greece. Author Quennell does not believe that he really wanted to go. "The idea of death might leave him calm; he shuddered . . . at the prospect of moving house." To Lord and Lady Blessington who saw him just before he left, he made farewell presents, demanded "a corresponding gage d'amitie." He made "some sarcastic observation on his nervousness." He had wept "and made no effort...