This poem is supposed to have been written in 1813, when on a visit to some friends at Bexhill, Sussex.
Reminiscences of a Literary Life
, Vol. i. p. 253.
If "indisposition were generally preying upon him," as at this time was indeed the fact, could this occasional failure in the delivery of a lecture (though naturally very disappointing to his audience,) be fairly attributed to indolence?