The "newspapers were in hysterics and town in an uproar on the avowal and republication" of the stanzas (_Diary_, February 18), and during Byron's absence from town "Murray omitted the Tears in several of the copies"--that is, in the Third Edition--but yielding to _force majeure_, replaced them in a Fourth Edition, which was issued early in February. (See Letters of July 6, 1812, January 22, February 2, and February 10, 1814 (_Letters_, 1898, ii. 134, etc.); and for "Newspaper Attacks upon Byron," see _Letters_, 1898, ii. Appendix VII. pp. 463-492.)] [bl] _Stanzas_.--[1812.] [36] {48} [For allusion to the "Cornelian" see "The Cornelian," ["Pignus Amoris"], and "The Adieu," stanza 7, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 66, 231, 240. See, too, _Letters_, 1898, i. 130, note 3.] [bm] {50} _To Samuel Rogers, Esq_.--[_Poems_, 1816.] [37] ["Rogers is silent,--and, it is said, severe. When he does talk, he talks well; and, on all subjects of taste, his delicacy of expression is pure as his poetry. If you enter his house--his drawing-room--his library--you of yourself say, this is not the dwelling of a common mind. There is not a gem, a coin, a book thrown aside on his chimney-piece, his sofa, his table, that does not bespeak an almost fastidious elegance in the possessor."--_Diary_, 1813; _Letters_, 1898, ii. 331.] [38] [Compare Collins' _Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson_--"In yonder grave a Druid lies."] [39] {51} ["Mr. Elliston then came forward and delivered the following _Prize_ address. We cannot boast of the eloquence of the delivery. It was neither gracefully nor correctly recited. The merits of the production itself we submit to the criticism of our readers. We cannot suppose that it was selected as the most poetical composition of all the scores that were submitted to the committee. But perhaps by its tenor, by its allusions to Garrick, to Siddons, and to Sheridan, it was thought most applicable to the occasion, notwithstanding its being in part unmusical, and in general tame."--_Morning Chronicle_, October 12, 1812.] [40] ["By the by, the best view of the said fire [February 24, 1809] (which I myself saw from a house-top in Covent-garden) was at Westminster Bridge, from the reflection on the Thames."--Letter to Lord Holland, September 25, 1812, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 148.] [bn] _As flashing far the new Volcano shone_ / _meteors_ \ _And swept the skies with_ { } _not their own_. \ _lightnings_ /