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Byron says something in Don Juan about schoolkids looking at the end of their textbooks at the interesting?

stuff about the heathen gods. Can anyone quote me this?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi there.
Oh how Donna Inez tries to keep Juans mind pure, and how dismally it all fails... I suppose our best equivalent is kids looking up rude words in the more complete dictionaries!
All the saucy bits are nicely rounded up in the appendices.
Cheers, Steve.
"Juan was taught from out the best edition,
Expurgated by learn㩤 men, who place
Judiciously, from out the schoolboy's vision,
The grosser parts; but, fearful to deface
Too much their modest bard by this omission,
And pitying sore his mutilated case,
They only add them all in an appendix,[*]
Which saves, in fact, the trouble of an index;
XLV

For there we have them all "at one fell swoop,"
Instead of being scatter'd through the Pages;
They stand forth marshall'd in a handsome troop,
To meet the ingenuous youth of future ages,
Till some less rigid editor shall stoop
To call them back into their separate cages,
Instead of standing staring all together,
Like garden gods -- and not so decent either. "