Whose accents are the steps of Music's throne.[*]—[MS.]
[*] ["To the Publisher. Take of these varieties which is thought best. I have no choice.">[
[156] {128} [Moore, quoting from memory from one of Byron's MS. journals, says that he speaks of "making earnest love to the younger of his fair hostesses at Seville, with the help of a dictionary."—Life, p. 93. See, too, letter to his mother, August 11, 1809, Letters, 1898, i. 240.]
[BR] Pressure of hands, et cetera—or a kiss.—[MS. Alternative reading.]
[BS] Italian rather more, having more teachers.—[MS. erased.]
[157] ["In 1813 ... in the fashionable world of London, of which I then formed an item, a fraction, the segment of a circle, the unit of a million, the nothing of something.... I had been the lion of 1812."—Extracts from a Diary, January 19, 1821, Letters, 1901, v. 177, 178.]
foes, friends, sex, kind, are nothing more to me
Than a mere dream of something o'er the sea.—[MS.]
[158] {129}[For the same archaism or blunder, compare Manfred, act i. sc. 4, line 19, Poetical Works, 1901, iv. 132.]