[385] Nicoll and Wise, Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century, p. 342, December 22, 1818.
[386] Works of Shelley, VIII, p. 286.
[387] Correspondence, I, p. 190.
[388] Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, p. 18.
[389] Ibid., p. 18.
[390] “I could always procure what I wanted from Lord Byron, and living here is divinely cheap.” (Correspondence, I, p. 198, November 7, 1822.)
[391] Life of Byron, p. 242.
[392] Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, p. 6.
[393] Works of Shelley, VIII, p. 257.
[394] She used no tact in her dealings with Lord Byron. She let him see that she had no respect for rank or titles. She even went beyond the limits of courtesy in her remarks to him. On Byron’s saying, “What do you think, Mrs. Hunt? Trelawny had been speaking of my morals! What do you think of that?” “It is the first time,” said Mrs. Hunt, “I ever heard of them.” (Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, p. 27). Of his portrait by Harlowe she said “that it resembled a great schoolboy, who had had a plain bun given him, instead of a plum one,” a facetious speech indiscreetly repeated by Hunt to Byron.