["Perhaps I should myself be much better pleased, if I were told you called me your little friend, than if you complimented me with the title of a 'great genius,' or an eminent hand, as Jacob does all his authors."—Pope to Steele, November 29, 1712, Works of Alexander Pope, 1871, vi. 396.]

[749] [See D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, 1841, pp. 450-452, and the Dissertation prefixed to Francis Douce's edition of Holbein's Dance of Death, 1858, pp. 1-218.]

[NU] {556}—— Miss Allman and Miss Noman.—[MS. erased.]

[NV]

—— that smooth placid sea

Which did not show and yet concealed a storm.—[MS. erased.]

[750] {558}[Compare Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanza lix. line 3, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 374, note 2.]

[751] {559}

[" ... And, under him,

My Genius is rebuked; as it is said