For writing nonsense for the nonce.
[P. 201.] A long poem in blank verse. This reference in the note is to Wordsworth's Excursion, the lines indicated being:
And, verily, the silent creatures made
A splendid sight, together thus exposed;
Dead—but not sullied or deformed by death,
That seemed to pity what he could not spare.
Book VIII., lines 568-571.
[P. 202.] As the Prince Regent did with Sherry—i.e., Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
'Twould make George Colman melancholy. George Colman was author of Broad Grins and other humorous work.