[Footnote 152: Ibid. IV. 81; Letter to Moore, Feb. 12, 1818.] [Footnote 153: Byron's Works, "Life," V. 96, Feb. 2, 1821.] [Footnote 154: Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott," VII. 323.] [Footnote 155: "If I was born, as the nurses say, with a 'silver spoon in my mouth,' it has stuck in my throat, and spoiled my palate, so that nothing put into it is swallowed with much relish--unless it be cayenne.... I see no such horror in a dreamless sleep, and I have no conception of any existence which duration would not make tiresome."] [Footnote 156: "I like Junius: he was a good hater. I don't understand yielding sensitiveness. What I feel is an immense rage for forty-eight hours."] [Footnote 157: Byron's Works, "Life," I. 41.] [Footnote 158: In "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."] [Footnote 159: Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott," III. 389.] [Footnote 160: Ibid. V. 141.] [Footnote 161: Moore's "Life of Byron," III. 12, March 10, Thor's day. The last part of the sentence is a quotation from "Macbeth," V. 5.] [Footnote 162: Ibid. IV. 169, note.] [Footnote 163: Moore, Byron's Works; "Life," V. 67, Jan. 9, 1821.] [Footnote 164: Ibid. V. 60, Jan. 6, 1821.] [Footnote 165: Moore, Byron's Works; "Life," V. 97, February 2, 1821.] [Footnote 166: Ibid. 95.] [Footnote 167: Ibid. VI. 206.] [Footnote 168: Moore, Byron's Works; "Life," V. 33, Ravenna, Nov. 18, 1820.] [Footnote 169: Moore, Byron's Works; "Life," V. 265.] [Footnote 170: Ibid. V. 150, Ravenna, May 3, 1821.] [Footnote 171: "All the styles of the day are bombastic. I don't except my own; no one has done more through negligence to corrupt the language."] [Footnote 172: See his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."] [Footnote 173: Thirty thousand copies of "The Corsair" were sold in one day.] [Footnote 174: Byron's Works, VIII; "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," c. I. 6.] [Footnote 175: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," c. I. 19.] [Footnote 176: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," c. III. 7-15.] [Footnote 177: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," c. IV. 1 and 2.] [Footnote 178: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," c. I. 39 and 40.] [Footnote 179: Ibid. c. IV. 93 and 94.] [Footnote 180: For example, "as weeping Beauty's cheek at Sorrow's tale."] [Footnote 181: Here are verses like Pope, very beautiful and false: "And havock loath so much the waste of time, She scarce had left an uncommitted crime, One hour beheld him since the tide he stemm'd, Disguised, discover'd, conquering, ta'en condemn'd, A chief on land, an outlaw on the deep, Destroying, saving, prison'd, and asleep!"] [Footnote 182: Moore's "Life," IV. 345.] [Footnote 183: Byron's Works, X., "The Prisoner of Chillon," c. VII. 234.] [Footnote 184: Byron's Works, X., "The Prisoner of Chillon," c. VIII. 236.] [Footnote 185: Ibid, XI., "Mazeppa," c. XIII. 167.] [Footnote 186: Byron's Works, X., "The Siege of Corinth," c. XI. 116.] [Footnote 187: Byron's Works, X., "The Siege of Corinth," c. XVI. 123.]