[99] Letters, i., 104.
[100] Mathias had asserted that Moore “had neither scrupled nor blushed to depict, and to publish to the world, the arts of systematic seduction, and to thrust upon the nation the most open and unqualified blasphemy against the very code and volume of our religion” (Pursuits of Literature, Preface to Dialogue IV.).
[101] Preface to Mæviad, page 59, Note.
[102] See the account of this period in Thorndike’s Tragedy, chapter x.
[103] Byron may have taken a suggestion from some lines of Children of Apollo:
“But in his diction Reynolds grossly errs;
For whether the love hero smiles or mourns,
’Tis oh! and ah! and oh! by turns.”
[104] Satires, iii., 197.
[105] Dunciad, iv., 45–70.