[298] Quarterly Review, May, 1809.
[299] Familiar Letters, Vol. I, p. 341.
[300] Journal, Vol. I, p. 9.
[301] Lockhart, Vol. V, p. 70.
[302] Ibid., Vol. II, p. 306.
[303] Byron said, "Crabbe's the man, but he has got a coarse and impracticable subject." (Moore's Life and Letters of Byron, Vol. IV, pp. 63-4.) Leslie Stephen remarks that Crabbe "was admired by Byron in his rather wayward mood of Pope-worship, as the last representative of the legitimate school." (English Literature and Society in the 18th Century, p. 207.)
[304] Lockhart, Vol. III, p. 197.
[305] The reader will at once recall the ingenuous remark of Sophia Scott when she was asked, shortly after its appearance, how she liked The Lady of the Lake. She said, "Oh, I have not read it; Papa says there's nothing so bad for young people as reading bad poetry." (Lockhart, Vol. II, p. 130. See also the Life of Irving, Vol. I, p. 444.)
[306] Familiar Letters, Vol. II, p. 94.
[307] Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe, Vol. I, p. 353.