Byron

GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD, (bi'rün,) an English poet, B.1788, s. his grand-uncle in the peerage and estates while still a boy. After studying at Harrow and Cambridge, and while yet a minor, he published his Hours of Idlene , a collection of clever but immature poems. The severe criticism pa ed upon them by the "Edinburgh Review," brought out their author's real genius in the scathing satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Disappointed in his early love, B. became noted as a man about town, and so impaired his fortune as to compel his retirement to the Continent. There he produced one of his grandest works, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; others followed in rapid succe ion, and the noble poet, as he himself says, "awoke one day to find himself famous." In 1815, he married, and after a year of in felicity, parted from his wife, and left England, never to return. Abroad, he took up his residence in Venice and other cities, and wrote the concluding cantos of his Childe Harold, some minor poems, and Don Juan, admitted to be his finest work. In 1823, he resolved to devote his person, sword, pen, and fortune to the cause of Greek independence; but contracting a fever soon after his arrival in Greece, he D. C. the third letter and second consonant of the EngC, lish and the greater number of European alphabets, is pronounced like k before the vowels a, o, and u, and like s, before e, i, and y. Before h it has a peculiar sound, as in chance, chalk; in chord and some other words it is hard like k; but in many French words it is soft before h, like s, as in chaise, chagrin, . C is derived from the Latin alphabet, in which it originally po e ed the power of g hard, as in goose. As a numeral,C's tands for 100, and CC for 200, & c.; as an abbreviation, it stands for Christum, Christ, as A. C. or B. C. Ante Christum or Before Christ. Also, anciently, for Caius, Cæsar, consul, civitas, .-(Chem.) Cis the symbol of carbon; Ca, of calcium; Cd, cadmium; Ce, cerium; Cl, chlorine; Co, cobalt, Cr, chromium; Cs, cæsium; and Cu, ofcupreus, (copper.)-(Mus.) Anote of the gamut corresponding with the French Ut, and the Italian Do; placed after the clef, it is the mark of common time. C Major is the first of the 12 majors, and being the natural scale has no signature. CMinor is the tonic major of C major, and has 3 flats for its signature, viz., B flat, E flat, A flat. [s. 127]