, lines 283-294; and
Letters
, vol. i. p. 113. Byron's opinion of Moore's later poetry was thus stated by him to Lady Blessington (
Conversations
, pp. 354, 355):
"Having compared Rogers's poems to a flower-garden, to what shall I compare Moore's?—to the Valley of Diamonds, where all is brilliant and attractive, but where one is so dazzled by the sparkling on every side that one knows not where to fix, each gem beautiful in itself, but overpowering to the eye from their quantity."
The Knight of Snowdoun
, a musical drama, written by Thomas Morton (1764-1838), and founded on