" and "
The Bride of Abydos
" He won't like the latter, and I don't think that I shall long. It was written in four nights to distract my dreams from ——. Were it not thus, it had never been composed; and had I not done something at that time, I must have gone mad, by eating my own heart,—bitter diet;—Hodgson likes it better than "
The Giaour
" but nobody else will,—and he never liked the Fragment. I am sure, had it not been for Murray,
that
would never have been published, though the circumstances which are the ground-work make it —— heigh-ho!
To-night I saw both the sisters of ——; my God! the youngest so like! I thought I should have sprung across the house, and am so glad no one was with me in Lady H.'s box. I
[a]hate]
those likenesses—the mock-bird, but not the nightingale—so like as to remind, so different as to be painful