but make it what you please; only I do implore, for had they, in that case, been preferred, it would have my own gratification, one lash on those accursed been asserted that I was known, and owed the prequadrupeds a long shot, Sir Lucius, if you love ference to private friendship. This is what we shall me.' I have altered wave,' &c., and the 'fire,' and probably have to encounter, but, if once spoken and so forth, for the timid. approved, we shan't be much embarrassed by their brilliant conjectures, and, as to criticism, an old author, like an old bull, grows cooler (or ought) at every baiting. "Let me hear from you when convenient, and believe me, &c. “P. S.-Do let that stand, and cut out elsewhere. I shall choke, if we must overlook their d-d menagerie." LETTER CXXXVIII. TO LORD HOLLAND. "The only thing would be to avoid a party on the night of delivery-afterward, the more the better, and the whole transaction inevitably tends to a good deal of discussion. Murray tells me there are myriads of ironical Addresses ready-some, in imitation of what is call'd my style. If they are as good as the Probationary Odes, or Hawkins' Pipe of Tobacco, it will not be bad fun for the imitated. "Ever, &c." LETTER CXL. TO LORD HOLLAND. "October 2, 1812. "Sept. 30, 1812. "I send you the most I can make of it; for I am not so well as I was, and find I 'pall in resolution.' "I wish much to see you, and will be at Tetbury by twelve on Saturday; and from thence I go on to Lord Jersey's. It is impossible not to allude to the degraded state of the stage, but I have lightened it, and endeavored to obviate your other objections. There is a new couplet for Sheridan, allusive to his "A copy of this still altered is sent by the post, Monody. All the alterations I have marked thus, but this will arrive first. It must be humbler' -as you will see by comparison with the other copy.yet aspiring' does away the modesty, and, after I have cudgelled my brains with the greatest wil-all, truth is truth. Besides, there is a puff direct lingness, and only wish I had more time to have altered, to please your plaguy renters. "I shall be at Tetbury by twelve or one-but send "You will find a sort of clap-trap laudatory this for you to ponder over. There are several little couplet inserted for the quiet of the Committee, things marked thus altered for your perusal. I and I have added, towards the end, the couplet you have dismounted the cavalry, and, I hope, arranged were pleased to like. The whole Address is seventy- to your general satisfaction. Ever, &c. three lines, still perhaps too long, and, if shortened, "At Tetbury by noon. I hope, after it is sent, you will save time, but, I fear, a little of what I there will be no more elisions. It is not now so long-seventy-three lines-two less than allotted. "With myriads of thanks, I am ever, &c. I will alter all committee objections, but I hope you "My sixteenth edition of respects to Lady H.won't permit Elliston to have any voice whatever,How she must laugh at all this! done better. meant for sense also. "I wish Murray, my publisher, to print off some copies as soon as your lordship returns to town-it will ensure correctness in the papers afterward." except in speaking it.". LETTER CXLI. LETTER CXXXIX. TO LORD HOLLAND. "Far be from him that hour which asks in vain or, Far be that hour that vainly asks in turn crown'd his Such verse for him as wept o'er Garrick's uru." "Sept. 30, 1812. Will you choose between these added to the TO MR. MURRAY. "High street, Cheltenham, Sept. 5, 1812. "Pray have the goodness to send those despatches, and a No. of the Edinburgh Review with the rest. I hope you have written to Mr. Thompson, thanked him in my name for his present, and told him that I shall be truly happy to comply with his request. How do you go on? and when is the graven image, 'with bays and wicked rhyme upon't,' to grace, or disgrace, some of our tardy editions? "Send me Rokeby.' Who the devil is he?—no matter, he has good connexions, and will be well lines on Sheridan? * I think they will wind up the introduced. I thank you for your inquiries: I am panegyric, and agree with the train of thought pre-so so, but my thermometer is sadly below the poeticeding them. “Now one word as to the Committee-how could cal point. What will you give me or mine for a poem of six cantos, (when complete-no rhyme, no rethey resolve on a rough copy of an Address never sent in, unless you had been good enough to retain compense,) as like the last two as I can make them? I have some ideas that one day may be embodied, in memory, or on paper, the thing they have been good enough to adopt? By-the-by, the circum- and till winter I shall have much leisure. "P. S. My last question is in the true style of avidus gloriæ,' for all praise of them would look Grub street; but, like Jeremy Diddler, I only ask plaguy suspicious. If necessary to be stated at all, for information.' Send me Adair on Diet and Regithe simple facts bear them out. They surely had a men, just republished by Ridgway.” stances of the case should make the committee less right to act as they pleased. My sole object is one which, I trust, my whole conduct has shown; viz. that I did nothing insidious-sent in no Address. whatever-but, when applied to, did my best for them and myself; but above all, that there was no undue partiality, which will be what the rejected will endeavor to make out. Fortunately-most fortunatelyI sent in no lines on the occasion. For I am sure that * These added lines as may be seen by reference to the printed Address, were not retained. LETTER CXLII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Cheltenham, Sept. 14, 1812. "The parcels contained some letters and verses, all (but one) anonymous and complimentary, and very anxious for my conversion from certain infidel- even from among the superabundance of friends ities into which my good-natured correspondents with whom you suppose me surrounded. conceive me to have fallen. The books were pres- "You have heard that Newstead* is sold-the ents of a convertible kind. Also, Christian know- sum 140,0007.; sixty to remain in mortgage on the ledge' and the 'Bioscope,' a religious Dial of Life estate for three years, paying interest, of course. explained; and to the author of the former, (Cadell Rochdale is also likely to do well-so my worldly publisher,) I beg you will forward my best thanks matters are mending. I have been here some time, for his letter, his present, and, above all, his good drinking the waters simply because there are waters intentions. The 'Bioscope' contained a MS. copy to drink,-and they are very medicinal, and suffiof very excellent verses, from whom I know not, ciently disgusting. In a few days I set out for Lord but evidently the composition of some one in the Jersey's, but return here, where I am quite alone, habit of writing, and of writing well. I do not know go out very little, and enjoy in its fullest extent the if he be the author of the 'Bioscope' which accom- dolce far niente.' What you are about, I cannot panied them; but whoever he is, if you can discover guess, even from your date; not dancing to the him, thank him for me most heartily. The other sound of the gitourney in the Halls of the Lowthers? letters were from ladies, who are welcome to convert one of whom is here, ill, poor thing! with a phthisic. me when they please; and if I can discover them, I heard that you passed through here (at the sordid and they be young, as they say they are, I could inn where I first alighted) the very day before I arconvince them perhaps of my devotion. I had also rived in these parts. We had a very pleasant set a letter from Mr. Walpole on matters of this world, here; at first the Jerseys, Melbournes, Cowpers, which I have answered. and Hollands-but all gone; and the only persons "So you are Lucien's publisher? I am promised I know are the Rawdons and Oxfords, with some an interview with him, and think I shall ask you for later acquaintances of less brilliant descent. a letter of introduction, as the gods have made "But I do not trouble them much; and as for him poetical.' From whom could it come with a your rooms and your assemblies, they are not better grace than from his publisher and mine? Is dreamed of in our philosophy!! Did you read of it not somewhat treasonable in you to have to do a sad accident in the Wye t' other day?—a dozen with a relative of the direful foe,' as the Morning drowned, and Mr. Rossoe, a corpulent gentleman, Post calls his brother? preserved by a boat-hook or an eel-spear, begged, "But my book on 'Diet and Regimen,' where is when he heard his wife was saved-no-lost-to be it? I thirst for Scott's Rokeby;' let me have thrown in again! !-as if he could not have thrown your first-begotten copy. The Antijacobin Review himself in, had he wished it; but this passes for a is all very well, and not a bit worse than the Quar- trait of sensibility. What strange beings men are, terly, and at least less harmless. By the by, have in and out of Wye! you secured my books? I want all the Reviews, at "I have to ask you a thousand pardons for not least the critiques, quarterly, monthly, &c., Portu- fulfilling some orders before I left town; but if you guese and English, extracted, and bound up in one knew all the cursed entanglements I had to wade volume for my old age; and pray, sort my Romaic through, it would be unnecessary to beg your forgivebooks, and get the volumes lent to Mr. Hobhouse-ness. When will Parliament (the new one) meet? he has had them now a long time. If any thing oc--in_sixty days, on account of Ireland, I presume; curs, you will favor me with a line, and in winter the Irish election will demand a longer period for we shall be nearer neighbors. completion than the constitutional allotment. Yours, "P. S. I was applied to, to write the Address for of course, is safe, and all your side of the question. Drury Lane; but the moment I heard of the con- Salamanca is the ministerial watchword, and all will test, I gave up the idea of contending against all go well with you. I hope you will speak more freGrub street, and threw a few thoughts on the sub- quently-I am sure at least you ought, and it will ject into the fire. I did this out of respect to you, Good night. be expected. I see Portman means to stand again. being sure you would have turned off any of your authors who had entered the lists with such scurvy "Ever yours most affectionately, σε Νωαιρών.” competitors. To triumph would have been no glory; and to have been defeated-'sdeath !-I would have choked myself, like Otway, with a quartern loaf; so, remember I had, and have, nothing to do with it, upon my honor!" LETTER CXLIV. TO MR. MURRAY. "Cheltenham, Sept. 27, 1812. "I sent in no address whatever to the committee; but out of nearly one hundred, (this is confidential,) none have been deemed worth acceptance; and in consequence of their subsequent application to me, I have written a prologue, which has been received, and will be spoken. The MS. is now in the hands of Lord Holland. "When you point out to one how people can be intimate at the distance of some seventy leagues, I "I write this merely to say that (however it is rewill plead guilty to your charge, and accept your fare-ceived by the audience) you will publish it in the well, but not wittingly, till you give me some better next edition of Childe Harold; and I only beg you reason than my silence, which merely proceeded at present to keep my name secret till you hear from a notion founded on your own declaration of farther from me, and as soon as possible I wish you old, that you hated writing and receiving letters. to have a correct copy to do with as you think Besides, how was I to find out a man of many resi- proper. dences? If I had addressed you now, it had been "P. S. I should wish a few copies printed off to your borough, where I must have conjectured you before, that the newspaper copies may be correct were among your constituents. So now, in despite after the delivery.” of Mr. N. and Lady W., you shall be as much better as the Hexam post-office will allow me to make you. I do assure you I am much indebted to you for thinking of me at all, and can't spare you • The sale was afterwards cancelled. † A mode of signature he frequently adopted. LETTER CXLV. TO MR. MURRAY. "Cheltenham, Oct. 12, 1812. Busby's entire) inserted in several of the papers, (correctly, and copied correctly; my hand is diffi cult,)-particularly the Morning Chronicle? Tell Mr. Perry 1 forgive him all he has said, and may say against my address, but he will allow me to deal with the doctor-(audi alteram partem) and not betray me. I cannot think what has befallen Mr. Perry, for of yore we were very good friends;-but no matter, only get this inserted. 'I have a very strong objection to the engraving of the portrait, and request that it may, on no account, be prefixed; but let all the proofs be burned, and the plate broken. I will be at the expense which has been incurred; it is but fair that I should, "I have a poem on Waltzing for you, of which I since I cannot permit the publication. I beg, as a make you a present; but it must be anonymous. It particular favor, that you will lose no time in having is in the old style of English Bards and Scotch Rethis done, for which I have reasons that I will state viewers. when I see you. Forgive all the trouble I have "P. S. With the next edition of Childe Harold occasioned you. you may print the first fifty or a hundred opening "I have received no account of the reception of lines of the 'Curse of Minerva,' down to the couplet the Address, but see it is vituperated in the papers, beginning which does not much embarrass an old author. I leave it to your own judgment to add it, or not, to "Mortal ('twas thus she spake) &c. your next edition when required. Pray comply Of course, the moment the Satire begins there you strictly with my wishes as to the engraving, and be- will stop, and the opening is the best part." lieve me, &c. "P. S. Favor me with an answer, as I shall not be easy till I hear that the proofs, &c., are destroyed. I hear that the Satirist has reviewed Childe Harold, in what manner I need not ask; but I wish to know if the old personalities are revived? I have a better reason for asking this than any that merely concerns myself; but in publications of that kind, others, particularly female names are sometimes introduced.' LETTER CXLVI. TO LORD HOLLAND. LETTER CXLVIII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Oct. 19, 1812. Many thanks, but I must pay the damage, and will thank you to tell me the amount for the engraving. I think the 'Rejected Addresses' by far the best thing of the kind since the Rolliad, and wish you had published them. Tell the author I forgive him, were he twenty times over a satirist;' and think his imitations not at all inferior to the famous ones of Hawkins Browne. He must be a man of very lively wit, and less scurrilous than wits often are: altogether, I very much admire the "I perceive that the papers, yea, even Perry's, performance, and wish it all success. The Satirist are somewhat ruffled at the injudicious preference has taken a new tone, as you will see: we have now, of the Committee. My friend Perry has, indeed, I think, finished with Childe Harold's critics. 'et tu Bute'-d me rather scurvily, for which I will have in hand a Satire on Waltzing,* which you must send him, for the M. C.* the next epigram I scrib-publish anonymously; it is not long, not quite two ble, as a token of my full forgiveness. hundred lines, but will make a very small boarded "MY DEAR Lord, "Cheltenham, Oct. 14, 1812. "Do the Committe mean to enter into no expla- pamphlet. In a few days you shall have it. nation of their proceedings? You must see there "P. S. The editor of the Satirist ought to be is a leaning towards a charge of partiality. You thanked for his revocation; it is done handsomely, will, at least, acquit me of any great anxiety to after five years' warfare." push myself before so many elder and better anonymous, to whom the twenty guineas (which I take to be about two thousand pounds Bank currency) and the honor would have been equally welcome. 'Honor,' I see, hath no skill in paragraphwriting.' LETTER CXLIX. TO MR. MURRAY. "Oct. 23, 1812. "I wish to know how it went off at the second reading, and whether any one has had the grace to give it a glance of approbation. I have seen no paper but Perry's, and two Sunday ones. Perry is have a care of glutting the public, who have by this "Thanks, as usual. You go on boldly; but severe, and the others silent. If, however, you and time had enough of Childe Harold. Waltzing your Committee are not now dissatisfied with your shall be prepared. It is rather above two hundred own judgments, I shall not much embarrass myself lines, with an introductory Letter to the Publisher. about the brilliant remarks of the journals. My I think of publishing, with Childe Harold, the own opinion upon it is what it always was, per- opening lines of the Curse of Minerva,'t as far as haps pretty near that of the public. "Believe me, my dear lord, &c. &c. "P. S. My best respects to Lady H. whose smiles will be very consolatory, even at this distance." LETTER CXLVII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Cheltelham, Oct. 18, 1812. "Will you have the goodness to get this Parody of a peculiar kindt (for all the first lines are • The Morning Chronicle, of which Mr. Perry was the proprietor. the first speech of Pallas,-because some of the readers like that part better than any I have ever written, and as it contains nothing to affect the sub Dr. Busby, entitled a Monologue, of which the Parody was enclosed in thi "When energizing objects men pursue, Which verses are thus ridiculed in the Parody ;— "When energizing objects men pursue,' The Lord knows what is writ by Lord knows who ! * See Poems, p. 480. † See Poems, p. 483. ject of the subsequent portion, it will find a place as a Descriptive Fragment. LETTER CLI. TO MR. WILLIAM BANKES. "December 26. "The plate is broken!-between ourselves, it was unlike the picture, and besides, upon the whole, the frontispiece of an author's visage is but a paltry "The multitude of your recommendations has alexhibition. At all events, this would have been no ready superseded my humble endeavors to be of use recommendation to the book. I am sure Sanders to you, and, indeed, most of my principal friends would not have survived the engraving. By-the- are returned. Leake from Joanina, Canning and by, the picture may remain with you or him (which Adair from the city of the faithful, and at Smyrna you please) till my return. The one of two re- no letter is necessary, as the consuls are always maining copies is at your service till I can give you willing to do every thing for personages of respecta a better; the other must be burned peremptorily. bility. I have sent you three, one to Gibralter, Again, do not forget that I have an account with which, though of no great necessity, will, perhaps, you, and that this is included. I give you too much put you on a more intimate footing with a very trouble to allow you to incur expense also. "You best know how far this Address riot' will that a man of any consequence has very little ocpleasant family there. You will very soon find out affect the future sale of Childe Harold. I like the casion for any letters but to ministers and bankers, volume of Rejected Addresses' better and better. and of them you have already plenty, I will be The other parody which Perry has received is mine sworn. in also, (I believe.) It is Dr. Busby's speech versified. "It is by no means improbable, that I shall go You are removing to Albemarle street, I find, and I the spring, and if you will fix any place of rendezrejoice that we shall be nearer neighbors. I am vous about August, I will write or join you. When going to Lord Oxford's, but letters here will be for- in Albania, I wish you would inquire after Dervise warded. When at leisure, all communications from Tahiri and Vascillie, (or Basil,) and make my reyou will be willingly received by the humblest of spects to the viziers, both there and in the Morea. your scribes. Did Mr. Ward write the review of If you mention my name to Suleyman of Thebes, I Horne Tooke's Life in the Quarterly? it is ex- think it will not hurt you; if I had my dragoman, cellent.' LETTER CL. TO MR. MURRAY. "Cheltenham, Nov. 22, 1812. or wrote Turkish, I could have given you letters of real service; but to the English they are hardly requisite, and the Greeks themselves can be of little advantage. Liston you know already, and I do not, as he was not then minister. Mind you visit Ephesus and the Troad, and let me hear from you when you please. I believe G. Forresti is now at Yanina, but if not, whoever is there will be too happy to assist you. Be particular about firmauns; never al"On my return here from Lord Oxford's I found low yourself to be bullied, for you are better your obliging note, and will thank you to retain the protected in Turkey than any where; trust not the letters, and other subsequent ones to the same ad- Greeks; and take some knicknakeries for presents dress, till I arrive in town to claim them, which will watches, pistols, &c., &c., to the Beys and Paprobably be in a few days. I have in charge a cu-chas. If you find one Demetrius, at Athens or elserious and very long MS. poem written by Lord where, I can recommend him as a good dragoman. I Brooke, (the friend of Sir Philip Sidney,) which I hope to join you, however; but you will find swarms wish to submit to the inspection of Mr. Gifford, of English now in the Levant. with the following queries:-first, whether it has ever been published, and, secondly (if not,) whether it is worth publication. It is from Lord Oxford's library, and must have escaped or been overlooked the MSS. of the Harleian Miscellany. The among writing is Lord Brooke's, except a different hand towards the close. It is very long, and in the six-line stanza. It is not for me to hazard an opinion upon its merits; but I would take the liberty, if not too "In 'Horace in London,' I perceive some stantroublesome, to submit it to Mr. Gifford's judgment, zas on Lord Elgin, in which (waiving the kind which, from his excellent edition of Massinger, I compliment to myself), I heartily concur. I wish should conceive to be as decisive on the writings of I had the pleasure of Mr. Smith's acquaintance, as that age as on those of our own. I could communicate the curious anecdote you "Believe me, &c." LETTER CLII. TO MR. MURRAY. "February 20, 1813. "Now for a less agreeable and important topic. read in Mr. T.'s letter. If he would like it, he can How came Mr. Mac-Somebody, without consulting have the substance for his second edition; if not, I you or me, to prefix the Address to his volume* of shall add it to our next, though I think we already Dejected Addresses?' Is not this somewhat lar- have enough of Lord Elgin. cenous? I think the ceremony of leave might have "What I have read of this work seems admibeen asked, though I have no objection to the thing rably done. My praise, however, is not much itself; and leave the 'hundred and leeven' to tire worth the author's having; but you may thank him themselves with 'base comparisons.' I should in my name for his. The idea is new-we have exthink the ingenuous public tolerably sick of the cellent imitations of the Satires, &c., by Pope; but I subject, and, except the Parodies, I have not inter- remember but one imitative Ode in his works, and fered, nor shall; indeed I did not know that Dr. none any where else. I can hardly suppose that Busby had published his Apologetical Letter and they have lost any fame by the fate of the farce; Postscript, or I should have recalled them. But I but even should this be the case, the present confess I looked upon his conduct in a different light publication will again place them on their pinnacle. before its appearance. I see some mountebank has taken Alderman Birch's name to vituperate Dr. Busby; he had much better have pilfered his pastry, which I should imagine the more valuable ingredient-at least for a puff. Pray secure me a copy of Woodfall's new Junius, and believe me, &c." * "The genuine Rejected Addresses, presented to the Committee of Management for Drury-Lane Theatre: preceded by that written by Lord Byron, and adopted by the Coinmittee: "-published by B. McMillan. LETTER CLIII. TO MR. ROGERS. "Yours, &c." "March 25, 1813. "I enclose you a draft for the usurious interest due to Lord **'s protégé ;-I also could wish you I would state thus much for me to his lordship. | bells. Mr. Hobhouse's quarto will be out immedi Though the transaction speaks plainly in itself for ately; pray send to the author for an early copy, the borrower's folly and the lender's usury, it never which I wish to take abroad with me. was my intention to quash the demand, as I legally "P. S. I see the Examiner threatens some obmight, nor to withhold payment of principal, or, servations upon you next week. What can you perhaps, even unlawful interest. You know what have done to share the wrath which has heretofore my situation has been, and what it is. I have parted been principally expended upon the Prince? with an estate, (which has been in my family for presume all your Scribleri will be drawn up in batnearly three hundred years. and was never disgraced tle array in defence of the modern Tonson- Mr. by being in possession of a lawyer, a churchman, or Bucke, for instance. a woman, during that period,) to liquidate this and "Send in my account to Bennet street, as I wish similar demands; and the payment of the purchase to settle it before sailing." is still withheld, and may be, perhaps, for years. If, therefore, I am under the necessity of making those persons wait for their money, (which, considering the terms, they can afford to suffer,) it is my misfortune. LETTER CLVI. TO MR. MURRAY. "Maidenhead, June 13, 1813. I have read the 'Strictures,'* which "When I arrived at majority in 1809, I offered my own security on legal interest, and it was refused. Now, I will not accede to this. This man I may have seen, but I have no recollection of the names of any parties but the agents and the securities. The moment I can, it is assuredly my intention to are just enough, and not grossly abusive, in very pay my debts. This person's case may be a hard fair couplets. There is a note against Massinger one; but, under all circumstances, what is mine? near the end, and one cannot quarrel with one's I could not foresee that the purchaser of my estate was to demur in paying for it. "I am glad it happens to be in my power so far to accommodate my Israelite, and only wish I could do as much for the rest of the Twelve Tribes. "Ever yours, dear R. LETTER CLIV. TO MR. MURRAY. "BN." company, at any rate. The author detects some "You do not answer me about H.'s book; I want to write to him, and not to say any thing unpleas"Westall has, I believe, agreed to illustrate ing. If you direct to post-office, Portsmouth, till your book,* and I fancy one of the engravings will called for, I will send and receive your letter. You be from the pretty little girl you saw the other day,† never told me of the forthcoming critique on Cothough without her name, and merely as a model lumbus, which is not too fair; and I do not think for some sketch connected with the subject. I justice quite done to the 'Pleasures,' which surely would also have the portrait (which you saw to-day) of the friend who is mentioned in the text at the close of Canto first, and in the notes,-which are subjects sufficient to authorize that addition.' Early in the spring he brought out, anonymously, his poem on Waltzing, which, though full of very lively satire, fell so far short of what was now expected from him by the public, that the disavowal of it, which, as we see by the following letter, he thought right to put forth, found ready credence. entitle the author to a higher rank than that assigned him in the Quarterly. But I must not cavil at the decisions of the invisible infallibles; and the article is very well written. The general horror of 'fragments' makes me tremulous for the Giaour; but you would publish it-I presume, by this time, to your repentance. But as I consented, whatever be its fate, I won't now quarrel with you, even though I detect it in my pastry; but I shall not open a pie without apprehension for some weeks. "The books which may be marked G. O., I will carry out. Do you know Clarke's Naufragia? I am told that he asserts the first volume of Robinson Crusoe was written by the first Lord Oxford, when in the Tower, and given by him to Defoe; if true, it is a curious anecdote. Have you got back Lord Brooke's MS.?_ and what does Heber say of it? Write to me at Portsmouth. "Ever yours, &c. "N.' LETTER CLV. TO MR. MURRAY. "April 21, 1813. LETTER CLVII. TO MR. MURRAY. "June 18, 1813. "I shall be in town by Sunday next, and will call and have some conversation on the subject of Westall's designs. I am to sit to him for a picture at the request of a friend of mine, and as Sanders's is not a good one, you will probably prefer the other. "DEAR SIR, I wish you to have Sanders's taken down and sent to my lodgings immediately-before my arrival. I "Will you forward the enclosed answer to the hear that a certain malicious publication on Waltz- kindest letter I ever received in my life, my sense ing is attributed to me. This report, I suppose, of which I can neither express to Mr. Gifford himyou will take care to contradict, as the author, I am self nor to any one else. sure, will not like that I should wear his cap and * A new edition of Childe Harold. † Lady Charlotte Harley, to whom, under the name of Ianthe, the introductory lines to Childe Harold were afterward addressed. |