text:  Respect then to the last desire of a dying man! Respect to the prayer of great genius whose lips when quivering in the last agony murmured the generous words "Pardon and Forget!" The foregoing brief notice is presented to the English reader less in the character of a complete biography of Pushkin (a character to which it has evidently no pretensions ) than as a kind of necessary introduction to the translated specimens of his poetry which it is intended to accompany