[17] At that time keeper of Newgate. The present superintendent is styled governor!
[18] A portentous one that made its appearance in the year 1811; in the midst of the war,
with fear of change
Perplexing nations.
[19] Thomas Moore.
[20] 'The Living Lustres appears to us a very fair imitation of the fantastic verses which that ingenious person, Mr. Moore, indites when he is merely gallant, and, resisting the lures of voluptuousness, is not enough in earnest to be tender.'—Edinburgh Review.
[21] This alludes to two massive pillars of verd antique which then flanked the proscenium, but which have since been removed. Their colour reminds the bard of the Emerald Isle, and this causes him (more suo) to fly off at a tangent, and Hibernicise the rest of the poem.
[22] Robert Southey.
[23] For the Glendoveer, and the rest of the dramatis personæ of this imitation, the reader is referred to the 'Curse of Kehama.'
[24] 'The Rebuilding is in the name of Mr. Southey, and is one of the best in the collection. It is in the style of the "Kehama" of that multifarious author; and is supposed to be spoken in the character of one of his Glendoveers. The imitation of the diction and measure, we think, is nearly almost perfect; and the descriptions as good as the original. It opens with an account of the burning of the old theatre, formed upon the pattern of the Funeral of Arvalan.'—Edinburgh Review.