{"id":1299,"date":"2016-03-03T14:27:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2016-03-03T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:27:13","slug":"thomas-moore-venice-1818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/byron\/selected-letters\/thomas-moore-venice-1818\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Moore,  Venice, February 2, 1818"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">to Thomas Moore,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Venice, February 2, 1818<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***I don&#8217;t much care what the wretches of the world think of me &#8211; all <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> past.\u00a0 But I care a good deal what <i>you<\/i> think of me, and, so say what you like.\u00a0 You <i>know<\/i> that I am not <i>sullen<\/i>; and, as to being savage, such things depend on circumstances.\u00a0 However, as to being in good humor in <i>your<\/i> society, there is no great merit in that, because it would be an effort, or an insanity, to be otherwise.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know what Murray may have been saying or quoting.\u00a0 I called Crabbe and Sam the fathers of present Poesy; and said what I thought &#8211; except them &#8211; <i>all<\/i> of <i>&#8216;us youth&#8217;<\/i> were on a wrong tack.\u00a0 But I never said that we did not sail well.\u00a0 Our fame will be hurt by<i>admiration<\/i> and <i>imitation<\/i>.\u00a0 When I say our, I mean all (Lakers included), except the postscript of the Augustans.\u00a0 The next generation (from the quantity and facility of imitation) will tumble and break their necks off our Pegasus, who runs away with us; but we keep the <i>saddle<\/i>, because we broke the rascal and can ride.\u00a0 But though easy to mount, he is the devil to guide; and the next fellow must go back to the riding-school and the manege, and learn to ride the &#8216;great horse.&#8217;***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to Thomas Moore, Venice, February 2, 1818 ***I don&#8217;t much care what the wretches of the world think of me &#8211; all that&#8217;s past.\u00a0 But I care a good deal what you think of me, and, so say what you like.\u00a0 You know that I am not sullen; and, as to being savage, such things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}