[148]Ibid. 26.
[149]Byron's Works, "Life," I. 53.
[150]Ibid. III. 83.
[151]Ibid. III. 20, March 28, 1814.
[152]Ibid. IV. 81; Letter to Moore, Feb. 12, 1818.
[153]Byron's Works, "Life," V. 96, Feb. 2, 1821.
[154]Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott," VII. 323.
[155]"If I was born, as the nurses say, with a 'silver spoon in my mouth,' it has stuck in my throat, and spoiled my palate, so that nothing put into it is swallowed with much relish—unless it be cayenne.... I see no such horror in a dreamless sleep, and I have no conception of any existence which duration would not make tiresome."
[156]"I like Junius: he was a good hater. I don't understand yielding sensitiveness. What I feel is an immense rage for forty-eight hours."
[157]Byron's Works, "Life," I. 41.