[bp] {183} Gorging the slightest slice of Flattery raw.—[MS. in a letter to Murray, April 11, 1818, Letters, 1900, iv. 218.]
[230] {184}[So, too, elsewhere. Wordsworth and Coleridge had depreciated Voltaire, and Byron, en revanche, contrasts the "tea-drinking neutrality of morals" of the school, i.e. the Lake poets, with "their convenient treachery in politics" (see Letters, 1901, v. 600).]
[ [231] ["Lady Byron," her husband wrote, "would have made an excellent wrangler at Cambridge." Compare—
"Her favourite science was the mathematical."
Don Juan, Canto I. stanza xii. line 1.]
[232] {185}[Stanza lxxx. is not in the original MS.]
[bq] {186} Sate Laura with a kind of comic horror.—[MS.]
[233] {189}[Cap Bon, or Ras Adden, is the northernmost point of Tunis.]