Excerpt from Julia Alpinula: With the Captive of Stamboul and Other Poems The story of Julia Alpinula has been so strenuously recommended to the public notice by Lord Byron, both in the text and notes to the Third Canto of "Childe Harold," as to obviate the necessity of an apology for my having made it the subject of the principal poem in this volume. With regard to any objection that may arise in the mind of the reader from the paucity of incident in this little History, it may not be irrelevant to remark, that although the mind may be amused by the vivid and various delineation of fictitious events, the better sympathies of the heart are much more likely to be excited by the simplest narrative, founded on real circumstance, and the play of the sweet and amiable affections, than by the most complicated tissue of situations that have no basis beyond the imagination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.