Poetical Works, p. 35.
[72] The lines occur in Barrère’s speech, which concludes the third act of the “Fall of Robespierre.” Poetical Works, p. 225.
[73] “Fall of Robespierre,” Act I. l. 198.
O this new freedom! at how dear a price
We’ve bought the seeming good! The peaceful virtues
And every blandishment of private life,
The father’s care, the mother’s fond endearment
All sacrificed to Liberty’s wild riot.
Poetical Works, p. 215.
[74] See “Fall of Robespierre,” Act I. l. 40. Poetical Works, p. 212.
[75] For full text of the “Lines on a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever,” see Letter XXXVIII. See, too, Poetical Works, p. 35.
[76] Southey’s Poetical Works, 1837, ii. 263.
[77] See Poems by Robert Lovell, and Robert Southey of Balliol College. Bath. Printed by A. Cruttwell, 1795, p. 17. “Ode to Lycon,” p. 77.
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