PARALLEL PASSAGES OR PLAGIARISMS IN CHILDE HAROLD.
Permit me to add two further plagiarisms or parallel passages on the subject of Childe Harold to those already contributed by your valuable correspondent "Melanion."
Mrs. Radcliffe (who I am informed was never out of England) is describing in her Mysteries of Udolpho, Chap. xvi. the appearance of Venice. "Its terraces, crowded with airy, yet majestic fabrics touched as they now were with the splendour of the setting sun, appeared as if they had been called up from the Ocean by the wand of an enchanter."
In the 1st stanza of the 4th canto of Childe Harold we have the well known lines—
"I stood in Venice on the bridge of sighs,
A palace and a prison on each hand:
I saw from out the wave her structures rise
As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand."
In one of his letters Lord Byron tells us of his fondness for the above novel.
Again in Kirke White's Christiad—