quote from Byron?

[Timothy D. Sergay]

Dear Ernie and Robert,

    This footnote to ch. 3, stikh 3 is incorrect. The quotation is indeed
from Don Juan, but it's from Canto the Fourth, the second half of stanza 3:

Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow
    Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion,
  And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk
  Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.

(The quotation Robert was asking about:)

I genij moj poblek, kak list osennij.
V fantazii uzh prezhnih kryl’ev net.
I gorestnoj dejstvitel’nosti sila
Moj romantizm v zloj yumor prevratila.

Cheers,

Tim

P.S. You can search the full texts of all kinds of Byron works at
http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/byron/index.html. I found this quotation
there by searching Don Juan for the string "roman."

----- Original Message -----

> > Does anyone recognize what may be a quote from a Russian translation of
> Don Juan?
>
> a rambler.ru search provided this:

> (iz romana v stikhakh Bajrona "Don-Zhuan", ch. 3, ctikh. 3. Per. D.
> Minaeva.)
>
> from a footnote on this page.
>
> http://teoriya95.narod.ru/z/1.htm
>
> Hope that pinpoints the passage.  I haven't checked yet.
>
> Ernie Sjogren

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