quite get over the natural antipathy of author and canto, or what it will be good for; but I mean, to be bookseller, and that more particularly the ferine as mercenary as possible, an example (I do mean of nature of the latter must break forth. any individual in particular, and least of all any "You are out about the third canto: I have not person or persons of our mutual acquaintance, done, nor designed, a line of continuation to that which I should have followed in my youth, and Í poem. I was too short a time at Rome for it, and might still have been a prosperous gentleman. have no thought of recommencing * "No tooth-powder, no letters, no recent tidings "I cannot well explain to you by letter what I of you. * * conceive to be the origin of Mrs. Leigh's notion Mr. Lewis is at Venice, and I am going up to about Tales of My Landlord;' but it is some stay a week with him there-as it is one of his enpoints of the characters of Sir. E. Manley and thusiasms also to like the city. Burley, as well as one or two of the jocular por tions, on which it is founded, probably. So. "I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs,' &c., &c. ་ "If you have received Dr. Polidori, as well as a "The Bridge of Sighs' (i. e. Ponte de'i Sospiri,) parcel of books, and you can be of use to him, be is that which divides, or rather joins, the palace of I never was much more disgusted with any the Doge to the prison of the state. It has two human production than with the eternal nonsense, passages: the criminal went by the one to judgand tracasseries, and emptiness, and ill humor, and ment, and returned by the other to death, being vanity of that young person; but he has some strangled in a chamber adjoining, where there was talent, and is a man of honor, and has dispositions a mechanical process for the purpose. of amendment, in which he has been aided by a little subsequent experience, and may turn out well. Therefore use your government interest for him, for he is improved and improvable. "Yours, &c." LETTER CCCXLII. TO MR. MURRAY. "This is the first stanza of our new canto; and now for a line of the second: "In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, "You know that formerly the gondoliers sung always, and Tasso's Gierusalemme was their ballad. Venice is built on seventy-two islands. "There! there's a brick of your new Babel! and now, sirrah! what say you to the sample? "P. S. I shall write again by-and-by." LETTER CCCXLIV. TO MR. MURRAY. "Yours, &c. “La Mira, near Venice, July 8, 1817. "La Mira, near Venice, June 18, 1817. "Enclosed is a letter to Dr. Holland from Pindemonte. Not knowing the doctor's address, I am desired to inquire, and perhaps, being a literary man, you will know or discover his haunt near some populous churchyard. I have written to you a scolding letter-I believe, upon a misapprehended passage in your letter-but never mind: it will do for next time, and you will surely deserve it. Talking of doctors reminds me once more to recommend to you one who will not recommend himself,-the Doctor Polidori. If you can help him to a pub- If you can convey the enclosed letter to its adlisher, do; or, if you have any sick relation, I dress, or discover the person to whom it is directed, would advise his advice: all the patients he had in you will confer a favor upon the Venetian creditor Italy are dead-Mr. **'s son, Mr. Horner, and of a deceased Englishman. This epistle is a dun to Lord Guildford, whom he embowelled with great his exécutor, for house-rent. The name of the insuccess at Pisa. solvent defunct is, or was, Porter Valter, according "Remember me to Moore, whom I congratulate. to the account of the plaintiff, which I rather How is Rogers? and what is become of Campbell suspect ought to be Walter Porter, according to and all t'other fellows of the Druid order? I got our mode of collocation. If you are acquainted with Maturin's Bedlam at last, but no other parcel; I any dead man of the like name a good deal in debt, am in fits for the tooth-powder, and the magnesia. pray dig him up, and tell him that a pound of his I want some of Burkitt's Soda powers. Will you fair flesh' or the ducats are required, and that if tell Mr. Kinnaird that I have written him two let- you deny them, fie upon your law!' let-you * * * ters on pressing business, (about Newstead, &c.,) to "I hear nothing more from you about Moore s which I humbly solicit his attendance. I am just poem, Rogers, or other literary phenomena; but te returned from a gallop along the banks of the morrow being post-day, will bring perhaps some> Brenta-time sunset. tidings. I write to you with people talking Venc tian all about, so that you must not expect this let ter to be all English. "The other day, I had a squabble on the highway, as follows: I was riding pretty quickly from Dolo home about eight in the evening, when I passed a party of people in a hired carriage, one of whom, poking his head out of the window, began bawling to me in an inarticulate but insolent manner. I wheeled my horse round, and overtaking, stopped "Since my former letter, I have been working up the coach, and said, 'Signor, have you any commy impressions into a fourth canto of Childe Har-mands for me?' He replied, impudently as to marrold, of which I have roughened off about rather ner, 'No.' I then asked him what he meant by better than thirty stanzas, and mean to go on; and that unseemly noise, to the discomfiture of the probably to make this 'Fytte' the concluding one passers-by. He replied by some piece of impertiof the poem, so that you may propose against the hence, to which I answered by giving him a violent autumn to draw out the conscription for 1818. You slap in the face. I then dismounted, (for this must provide moneys, as this new resumption passed at the window, I being on horseback still,) bodes you certain disbursements. Somewhere and opening the door, desired him to walk out, or I about the end of September or October I propose to would give him another. But the first had settled be under way, (i. e. in the press ;) but I have no him except as to words, of which he poured forth a idea yet of the probable length or calibre of the a profusion in blasphemies, swearing that he would go the police and avouch a battery sans provocation. I something more than to have been upon the haunch I said he lied, and was a **, and if he did not hold of a dromedary to compose a good oriental story. I his tongue, should be dragged out and beaten anew. am glad you have changed the title from 'Persian He then held his tongue. I of course told him Tale.' my name and residence, and defied him to the "I suspect you have written a devilish fine comdeath, if he were a gentleman, or not a gentleman, position, and I rejoice in it from my heart; because and had the inclination to be genteel in the way of the Douglas and the Percy both together are concombat. He went to the police, but there having fident against a world in arms.' I hope you won't been bystanders in the road,-particularly a soldier be affronted at my looking on us as birds of a who had seen the business, as well as my servant, feather;' though on whatever subject you had writnotwithstanding the oaths of the coachman and ten, I should have been very happy in your success. five insides besides the plaintiff, and a good deal of "There is a simile of an orange tree's 'flowers paying on all sides, his complaint was dismissed, and fruits,' which I should have liked better, if I he having been the aggressor;-and I was subse- did not believe it to be a reflection on quently informed that, had I not given him a blow, he might have been had into durance. "So set down this, that in Aleppo once' I 'beat a Venetian;' but I assure you that he deserved it, for I am a quiet man, like Candide, though with somewhat of his fortune in being forced to forego my natural meckness every now and then. "Yours, &c. LETTER CCCXLV. TO MR. MURRAY. "Venice, July 9, 1817. * * * "Do you remember Thurlow's poem to Sam,* When Rogers, and that d-d supper of Rancliffe's, that ought to have been a dinner? Ah, Master Shallow, we have heard the chimes at midnight But "My boat is on the shore,† &c. "This should have been written fifteen moons ago-the first stanza was. I am just come out from an hour's swim in the Adriatic; and I write to you with a black-eyed Venetian girl before me, reading Boccaccio. "Last week I had a row on the road (I came up to Venice from my casino, a few miles on the Paduan road, this blessed day to bathe) with a fellow in a carriage, who was impudent to my horse. I "I have got the sketch and extracts from Lalla gave him a swinging box on the ear, which sent Rookh-which I humbly suspect will knock up * *, him to the police, who dismissed his complaint, and and show young gentlemen that something more said, that if I had not thumped him, they would than having been across a camel's hump is necessary have trounced him for being impertinent. Witto write a good oriential tale. The plan, as well as nesses had seen the transaction. He first shouted in the extracts I have seen, please me very much in- an unseemly way, to frighten my palfrey. I wheeled deed, and I feel impatient for the whole. round, rode up to the window, and asked him what "With regard to the critique on Manfred,' you he meant. He grinned, and said some foolery, have been in such a devil of a hurry that you have which produced him an inmediate slap in the face, only sent me the half: it breaks off at page 294. to his utter discomfiture. Much blasphemy ensued, Send me the rest; and also page 270, where there and some menace, which I stopped by dismounting is an account of the supposed origin of this dread- and opening the carriage-door, and intimating an ful story,'-in which, by the way, whatever it may be, the conjecturer is out, and knows nothing of the matter. I had a better origin than he can devise or divine, for the soul of him. "You say nothing of Manfred's luck in the world; and I care not. He is one of the best of my misbegotten, say what they will. "I got at last an extract, but no parcels. They will come, I suppose, some time or other. I am come up to Venice for a day or two to bathe, and am just going to take a swim in the Adriatic; so, good evening-the post waits. "Yours, &c. intention of mending the road with his immediate remains, if he did not hold his tongue. He held it. "The fellow went sneakingly to the police: but a soldier, who had seen the matter, and thought me right, went and counter-oathed him; so that he had to retire-and cheap too:-I wish I had hit him harder. "Monk Lewis is here-how pleasant!' He is a very good fellow, and very much yours. So is Sam so is every body-and among the number, "Yours ever, “B. "P. S. What think you of Manfred? "P. S. Pray was Manfred's speech to the sun "If ever you see ***, ask him what he means still retained in act third? I hope so: it is one of by telling me, 'Oh, my friend, inveni portum?'the best in the thing and better than the Colosseum. What 'portum?' Port wine, I suppose the only I have done fifty-six of canto fourth, Childe port he ever sought or found, since I knew him." Harold; so down with your ducats." LETTER CCCXLVI. TO MR. MOORE. "La Mira, Venice, July 10, 1817. LETTER CCCXLVII. TO MR. MURRAY. "La Mira, near Venice, July 15, 1817. "I have finished (that is, written-the file comes Murray, the Mokanna of booksellers, has con- canto, which I mean to be the concluding one. afterward) ninety and eight stanzas of the fourth It trived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh by the will probably be about the same length as the third, post. They are taken from some magazine, and being already of the dimensions of the first or contain a short outline and quotations from the first second cantos. I look upon parts of it as very two poems. I am very much delighted with what good, that is, if the three former are good, but this is before me, and very thirsty for the rest. You have caught the colors as if you had been in the rainbow, and the tone of the East is perfectly preserved; so that *** and its author must be somewhat in the back-ground, and learn that it requires * See Poems, p. 565. † See Poems, p. 572. ↑ An allusion (such as often occurs in these letters) to an anecdote with which he had been amused. we shall see; and at any rate, good or not, it is There is a hint for you, worthy of the row; and rather a different style from the last-less meta- now, perpend-pronounce. physical-which at any rate, will be a variety. I "I have not received a word from you of the fate sent you the shaft of the column as a specimen the of 'Manfred' or 'Tasso,' which seems to me odd, other day, i. e. the first stanza. So you may be whether they have failed or succeeded. thinking of its arrival towards autumn, whose "As this is a scrawl of business, and I have late winds will not be the only ones to be raised, if so be ly written at length and often on other subjects, 1 as how that it is ready by that time. will only add that I am, &c." "I lent Lewis, who is at Venice (in or on the Canalaccio, the Grand Canal), your extracts from Lalla Rookh and Manuel, and, out of contradiction, it may be, he likes the last, and is not much taken with the first, of these performances. Of Manuel I think, with the exception of a few capers, it is as heavy a nightmare as was ever bestrode by indigestion. LETTER CCCXLIX. TO MR. MURRAY. "La Mira, near Venice, Aug. 7, 1817. "Of the extracts I can but judge as extracts, "Your letter of the 18th, and, what will please and I prefer the 'Peri' to the Silver Veil.' He seems not so much at home in his versification of you, as it did me, that parcel sent by the goodthe Silver Veil,' and a little embarrassed with his natured aid and abetment of Mr. Croker, are arhorrors; but the conception of the character of the rived.-Messrs. Lewis and Hobhouse are here: the impostor is fine, and the plan of great scope for his former in the same house, the latter a few hundred genius, and I doubt not that, as a whole, it will be yards distant. very Arabesque and beautiful. "You say nothing of Manfred, from which its Your late epistle is not the most abundant in should not say so at once. failure may be inferred; but I think it odd you information, and has not yet been succeeded by any hear absolutely nothing, of any body or any thing I know nothing, and other; so that I know nothing of your own concerns, in England; and there are no English papers, so or of any concerns, and as I never hear from any body that all you say will be news-of any person, or but yourself who does not tell me something as disagreeable as possible, I should not be sorry to hear thing, or things. I am at present very anxious from you: and as it is not very probable,—if I can, England at this minute, though I do not tell him about Newstead, and sorry that Kinnaird is leaving by any device or possible arrangement with regard tell me will be all I shall know or inquire after, as is to my personal affairs, so arrange it, that I shall so, and would rather he should have his pleasure, return soon, or reside ever in England, all that you although it may not in this instance tend to my profit. to our beloved realm of Grub street, and the black land's 15007: as the agreement in the paper "If I understand rightly, you have paid into Morbrethren and blue sisterhood of that extensive two thousand guineas, there will remain therefore suburb of Babylon. Have you had no new babe of literature sprung up to replace the dead, the dis-six hundred pounds, and not five hundred, the odd tant, the tired, and the retired? no prose, no verse, hundred and thirty pounds will bring it to the like hundred being the extra to make up the specie. Six no nothing?" for Manfred and Tasso, making a total of twelve hundred and thirty, I believe, for I am not a good calculator. I do not wish to press you, but I tell you fairly that it will be a convenience to me to have it paid as soon as it can be made convenient to yourself. LETTER CCCXLVIII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Venice, July 20, 1817. "The new and last canto is one hundred and thirty stanzas in length; and may be made more or less. I have fixed no price, even in idea, and have no notion of what it may be good for. There are no metaphisics "I write to give you notice that I have completed ised me a copy of Tasso's Will, for notes; and Î have in it; at least, I think not. Mr. Hobhouse has promthe fourth and ultimate canto of Childe Harold. It consists of one hundred and twenty-six stanzas, and isina's story, and perhaps a farthing-candle's worth some curious things to say about Ferrara, and Paris consequently the longest of the four. It is yet of light upon the present state of Italian literature. to be copied and polished; and the notes are to I shall hardly be ready by October; but that don't come, of which it will require more than the third matter. I have all to copy and correct, and the canto, as it necessarily treats more of works of art than of nature. It shall be sent towards autumn; -and now for our barter. What do you bid? eh? you shall have samples, an' it so please you: but I wish to know what I am to expect (as the saying is) in these hard times, when poetry does not let for the circumcision of a sucking Shylock. I have seen "Lewis, Hobhouse, and I went the other day to half its value. If you are disposed to do what Mrs. three men's heads and a child's foreskin cut off in Winifred Jenkins calls 'the handsome thing,' I may Italy. The ceremonies are very moving, but too perhaps throw you some odd matters to the lot,long for detail in this weather. notes to write. I have called him the Ariosto of the North' in my "I do not know whether Scott will like it; but text.* If he should not, say so in time. , came translations, or slight originals; there is no saying "An Italian translation of Glenarvon what may be on the anvil between this and the book- lately to be printed at Venice. The censor (Sr. ing season. Recollect that it is the last canto, and Petrotini) refused to sanction the publication till he completes the work; whether as good as the others, had seen me on the subject. I told him that I did I cannot judge, in course-least of all as yet, but it not recognize the slightest relation between that shall be as little worse as I can help. I may per- book and myself; but that, whatever opinions might haps, give some little gossip in the notes as to the be upon that subject, I would never prevent or oppresent state of Italian literati and literature, being acquainted with some of their capi―men as well as on my own private account; and desired him (against pose the publication of any book, in any language, books;-but this depends upon my humor at the his inclination) to permit the poor translator to pub time. So, now, pronounce: I say nothing. lish his labors. It is going forward in consequence You may say this, with my compliments, to the au thor. "Yours." “When you have got the whole four cantos, I think you might venture on an edition of the whole poem in quarto, with spare copies of the last two for the purchasers of the old edition of the first two. LETTER CCCL. TO MR. MURRAY. "Venice, Aug. 12, 1817. Madame de Staël's, and other people's, besides MSS., &c. By if I find the gentleman, and he don't find the parcel, I will say something he won't like to hear. "You want a 'civil and delicate declension' for "I have been very sorry to hear of the death of the medical tragedy? Take itMadame de Staël, not only because she had been very kind to me at Copet, but because now I can never requite her. In a general point of view she will leave a great gap in society and literature. "With regard to death, I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes. The copies of Manfred and Tasso are arrived, thanks to Mr. Croker's cover You have destroyed the whole effect and moral of the poem by omitting the last line of Manfred s speaking; and why this was done, I know not. Why you persist in saying nothing of the thing itself, I am equally at a loss to conjecture. If it is for fear of telling me something disagreeable, you are wrong; because sooner or later I must know it, and I am not so new nor so raw, nor so inexperienced, as not to be able to bear, not the mere paltry, petty disappointments of authorship, but things more serious,-at least I hope so, and that what you may think irritability is merely mechanical, and only acts like galvanism on a dead body, or the muscular motion which survives sensation. "If it is that you are out of humor, because I wrote to you a sharp letter, recollect that it was partly from a misconception of your letter, and partly because you did a thing you had no right to do without consulting me. "I have, however, heard good of Manfred from two other quarters, and from men who would not be scrupulous in saying what they thought, or what was said; and so good-morrow to you, good master Lieutenant.' "I wrote to you twice about the fourth canto, which you will answer at your pleasure. Mr. Hobhouse and I have come up for a day to the city; Mr. Lewis is gone to England; and I am LETTER CCCLI. TO MR. MURRAY. "Yours." I "La Mira, near Venice, Aug. 21, 1817. "I take you at your word about Mr. Hanson, and will feel obliged if you will go to him, and request Mr. Davies also to visit him by my desire, and repeat that I trust that neither Mr. Kinnaird's absence nor mine will prevent his taking all proper steps to accelerate and promote the sale of Newstead and Rochdale, upon which the whole of my future personal comfort depends. It is impossible for me to express how much any delays upon these points would inconvenience me; and I do not know a greater obligation that can be conferred upon me than the pressing these things upon Hanson, and making him act according to my wishes. wish you would speak out, at least to me, and tell me what you allude to by your cold way of mentioning him. All mysteries at such a distance are not merely tormenting but mischievous, and may be prejudicial to my interests; so pray expound, that I may consult with Mr. Kinnaird when he arrives; and remember that I prefer the most disagreeable certainties to hints and inuendoes. The devil take every body; I never can get any person to be explicit about any thing or any body, and my whole life is passed in conjectures of what people mean: you all talk in the style of Caroline Lamb's novels. "Dear Doctor, I have read your play, To shatter'd nerves and quicken'd pulses, "I like your moral and machinery: It is not that I am not sensible To merits in themselves ostensible, Are drugs-mere drugs, sir-now-a-days. I had a heavy loss by Manuel,' - A sort of it's no more a drama I think he's lost his wits at Venice. In short, sir, what with one and t' other, I dare not venture on another. I write in haste; excuse each blunder The coaches through the street so thunder1 All persons in the dress of gent., "Thus run our time and tongues away. "It is not Mr. St. John, but Mr. St. Aubyn, son "P. S. I've done the fourth and last canto, which of Sir John St. Aubyn. Polidori knows him, and amounts to one hundred and thirty-three stanzas introduced him to me. He is of Oxford, and has I desire you to name a price; if you don't, 1 got my parcel. The doctor will ferret him out, or will; so I advise you in time. ought. The parcel contains many letters, some of "There will be a good many notes.” "Yours, &c. LETTER CCCLII. LETTER CCCLIII. TO MR. MURRAY. TO MR. HOPPNER. Sept. 4, 1817. "La Mira, Sept. 12, 1817. "Your letter of the 15th has conveyed with its contents the impression of a seal, to which the "I set out yesterday morning with the intention 'Saracen's Head' is a seraph, and the Bull and of paying my respects, and availing myself of your Mouth' a delicate device. I knew that calumny permission to walk over the premises.* On arrivhad sufficiently blackened me of later days, but not ing at Padua, I found that the march of the Austhat it had given me the features as well as com-trian troops had engrossed so many horses, that plexion of a negro. Poor Augusta is not less, but those I could procure were hardly able to crawl; rather more, shocked than myself, and says 'people and their weakness, together with the prospect of seem to have lost their recollection strangely,' when finding none at all at the post-house of Monselice, they engraved such a 'blackmoor.' Pray don't seal and consequently either not arriving that day at (at least to me) with such a caricature of the hu- Este, or so late as to be unable to return home the man numskull altogether; and if you don't break same evening, induced me to turn aside in a second the seal-cutter's head, at least crack his libel (or visit to Arqua, instead of proceeding onwards; and ikeness, if it should be a likeness) of mine. even thus I hardly got back in time. "Mr. Kinnaird is not yet arrived, but expected. "Next week I shall be obliged to be in Venice to He has lost by the way all the tooth-powder, as a meet Lord Kinnaird and his brother, who are exletter from Spa informs me. pected in a few days. And this interruption, "By Mr. Rose I received safely, though tardily, together with that occasioned by the continued magnesia and tooth-powder, and * * * *. Why march of the Austrians for the next few days, you send me such trash-worse than trash, the will not allow me to fix any precise period for Sublime of Mediocrity? Thanks for Lalla, how-availing myself of your kindness, though I should ever, which is good, and thanks for the Edinburgh wish to take the earliest opportunity. Perhaps, if and Quarterly, both very amusing and well-written. absent, you will have the goodness to permit one of Paris in 1815, &c.-good. Modern Greece*-good your servants to show me the grounds and house, for nothing; written by some one who has never or as much of either as may be convenient; at any been there, and not being able to manage the Spen-rate, I shall take the first occasion possible to go ser stanza, has invented a thing of its own, consist- over, and regret very much that I was on yesterday ing of two elegaic stanzas, a heroic line, and an prevented. Alexandrine, twisted on a string. Besides, why 'modern?' You may say modern Greeks, but surely Greece itself is rather more ancient than ever it was. Now for business. do "I have the honor to be your obliged, &c." LETTER CCCLIV TO MR. MURRAY. "Sept. 15, 1817. "I enclose a sheet for correction, if ever you get You will observe that the to another edition. occasion. I "You offer fifteen hundred guineas for the new canto: I won't take it. I ask two thousand five hundred guineas for it, which you will either give or not, as you think proper. It concludes the It concludes the poem, and consists of one hundred and forty-four stanzas. The notes are numerous, and chiefly written by Mr. Hobhouse, whose researches have been indefati- blunder in printing makes it appear as if the Chagable, and who, I will venture to say, has more real knowledge of Rome and its environs than teau was over St. Gingo, instead of being on the any Englishman who has been there since Gib- opposite shore of the Lake, over Clarens. So, separate the paragraphs, otherwise my topography will bon. By-the-way, to prevent any mistakes, I think it necessary to state the fact that he, Mr. Hob- seem as inaccurate as your typography on this house, has no interest whatever in the price or profit to be derived from the copyright of either poem or with regard to the fourth and concluding canto. The other day I wrote to convey my proposition notes directly or indirectly; so you are not to sup- have gone over and extended it to one hundred and pose that it is by, for, or through him, that I require fifty stanzas, which is almost as long as the first more for this canto than the preceding.-No: but if Mr. Eustace was to have had two thousand for a of the smaller poems except the Corsair.' Mr. two were originally, and longer by itself than any poem on Education; if Mr. Moore is to have three of the smaller poems except the Corsair.' Mr. Hobhouse has made some very valuable and accuthousand for Lalla, &c.; if Mr. Campbell is to have three thousand for his prose on poetry-I don't rate notes, of considerable length, and you may be mean to disparage these gentlemen in their laborsbut I ask the aforesaid price for mine. You will finish with decency. I look upon Childe Harold as tell me that their productions are considerably with it. But I make no resolutions on that head, my best; and as I begun, I think of concluding longer: very true, and when they shorten them, I with it. But I make no resolutions on that head, will lengthen mine, and ask less. You shall sub-Corsair. However, I fear that I shall never do as I broke my former intention with regard to the mit the MS. to Mr. Gifford, and any other two gentlemen to be named by you, (Mr. Frere, or Mr. better; and yet, not being thirty years of age, for Croker, or whomever you please, except such fel- some moons to come, one ought to be progressive, as far as intellect goes, for many a good year. But * *s and * *s,) and if they pronounce I have had a devilish deal of tear and wear of mind this canto to be inferior as a whole to the preced- and body in my time, besides having published too ing, I will not appeal from their award, but burn often and much already. God grant me some judgthe manuscript, and leave things as they are. Yours very truly. ment to do what may be most fitting in that and every thing else, for I doubt my own exceedingly. "P. S. In answer to a former letter, I sent you "I have read 'Lalla Rookh,' but not with suffia short statement of what I thought the state of cient attention yet, for I ride about, and lounge, our present copyright account, viz., six hundred and ponder, and two or three other things; so pounds still (or lately) due on Childe Harold, and that my reading is very desultory, and not so attensix hundred guineas, Manfred and Tasso, making a tive as it used to be. I am very glad to hear of its total of twelve hundred and thirty pounds. If we popularity, for Moore is a very noble fellow in all agree about the new poem, I shall take the liberty lows as your to reserve the choice of the manner in which it should be published, viz., a quarto, certes." * *By Mr. Hemans. sure that I will do for the text all that I can to • A country-house on the Euganean hills, near Este, which Mr. Hoppner, who was then the English consul-general at Venice, had for some time occupied, and which Lord Byron afterward rented of him, but never resided in it. |