Conversations
, p. 77)
"a very good opinion of the talents and principle of Mr. Hunt, though, as he said, 'our tastes are so opposite that we are totally unsuited to each other ... in short, we are more formed to be friends at a distance, than near.'"
For the best part of two years Hunt was Byron's guest: he repaid his hospitality by publishing his
Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries
(1828). Though Lady Blessington said the book "gave, in the main, a fair account" of Byron (Crabb Robinson's
Diary
, vol. iii. p. 13), its publication was a breach of honour. As such it was justly attacked by Moore in "The
Living Dog
and the