friend J.C. Hobbouse, Esq. M.P.


[2] In "Lives of the Italian Poets." By the Rev. Henry Stebbing,
vol. ii.


[3] Few persons will be disposed to question this extreme
sensitiveness, since instances of similar effects on men of
genius are by no means rare. Whoever has read Mr. Moore's _Life
of Byron_ must have remarked the asperity with which he
inveighs against blundering printers in the Letters to Mr.
Murray, his publisher.

[4] "Childe Harold," canto 4, st. xli.

[5] Notes to lines 1 and 2 of the preceding stanza.

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FANNY.

(_For the Mirror._)


"I saw thy form in youthful prime,
Nor thought that pale decay
Would steal before the steps of time,
And waste thy bloom away."--MOORE.