Is annexed to my name
Is derived From Rejected Addresses.”
The blunder, notwithstanding, remains unrectified. The reader of poetry is always dissatisfied with emendations: they sound discordantly upon the ear, like a modern song, by Bishop or Braham, introduced in Love in a Village.
[77] This alludes to the young Betty mania.
[78] A fashionable milliner.
[79] For a detailed account of this appointment and its pay, privileges, and duties, see The Poets Laureate of England, by Walter Hamilton. (London, Reeves and Turner.)
[80] Euclid Redivivus.
[81] “The M,” “the C.” The Modern Side, the Classical Side.
[82] Leckhampton Hill, near Cheltenham.
[83] Mr. Henry Irving produced Othello at the Lyceum Theatre on February 14, 1876. At that period the London Figaro was most unjust and ungenerous in its comments on Mr. Irving, decrying his efforts as an actor in every part he undertook.