[62] Thomas Moore, Life of Lord Byron, London 1851, p. 287.

[63] ibid.

[64] Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and his Friends. Memoirs and correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an account of the origin and progress of the house, 1768-1843, London 1891, vol. I p. 288.

[65] Moore, p. 347.

[66] Barry Cornwall, Life of Edmund Kean, London 1835, vol. I p. 152.

[67] The name is spelled Shee on the title-page of the little volume in which the poem was published.

III.

[68] Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. XI p. 257.

[69] Quarterly Review 1817, vol. XVII p. 248; a critique, by Maturin, of Sheil’s Apostate.

[70] Elton II, p. 310.