[179] Mrs. Barbauld’s ‘Richardson’s Correspondence.’
[180] I believe the elm has been preserved, but the house has been removed.
[181] Mr. Le Breton, who heard him, says it was the first large elm-tree on the Heath.
[182] The Park, Brussels.
[183] Said to have been one of the most reliable of Charles Kean’s stock pieces.
[184] Leigh Hunt and his brother had been condemned to two years’ imprisonment each, and a fine of £1,000, for having, as he ludicrously phrases it, contrasted the Morning Post’s description of the Regent as an Adonis in appearance, and the Mæcenas of his age, with the old real, fat state of the case, and for having said that H.R.H. had lived for fifty years without doing anything to deserve the admiration of his contemporaries or the gratitude of posterity.
[185] A tradition of the inhabitants of the cottage when I saw it.
[186] These lines do not appear in ‘Sleep and Poetry,’ in Moxon’s edition in the Pocket Series.
[187] Old John Cleave, the publisher, and friend of Douglas Jerrold and William Linton, who visited Leigh Hunt in his Surrey cage, told me that not only were the walls covered with a rose-patterned paper, but that the poet had trained living roses on them.
[188] Vide Mary Cowden Clarke.