[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.
“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.