[143] Letters, iii., 271.

[144] Childe Harold, II., 10–15.

[145] Life of Byron, ii., 145.

[146] Don Juan, x., 17.

[147] Churchill’s poem ends with a prophecy from the Goddess of Famine just as Byron’s ends with Minerva’s curse.

[148]

“Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!

That lends Corruption lighter wings to fly!”

(Epistle to Lord Bathurst,
On the Use of Riches
, 40–41.)

[149] Childe Harold, II., 12.