Lord Byron as a satirist in verse

by Claude Moore Fuess

[157] The Real Lord Byron, ii., 51.

[158] On December 2, 1813, Byron wrote Hunt:—“I have a thorough esteem for that independence of spirit which you have maintained with sterling talent, and at the expense of some suffering” (Letters, ii., 296).

[159] Letters, iii., 58.

[160] Byron’s attitude towards war recalls the sardonic passage on the same subject in Gulliver’s Travels, Part IV.

[161] Letters, iii., 64.

[162] Letters, iii., 66.

[163] Letters, ii., 324.

[164] Childe Harold, III., 36–52.

[165] Letters, ii., 176.

[166] Letters, ii., 202.