[P. 244.] The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South, a quarterly published in Italy by Leigh Hunt and Byron, 1822-23, to which Hazlitt also contributed. In the second of its four numbers appeared Byron’s “Heaven and Earth: A Mystery.”
the deluge, in “Heaven and Earth.”
his aversion. See “Don Juan,” III, stanza 94:
“A drowsy frowzy poem, called the Excursion,
Writ in a manner which is my aversion.”
born in a garret. In the “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” Byron, speaking of Jeffrey, refers to “the sixteenth story, where himself was born.”
Letter to the Editor. The Letter to William Roberts, editor of the British Review, appeared in the first number of the Liberal.
Long’s, a restaurant in Bond Street.
[P. 245.] the controversy about Pope. See note to p. [118].
Scrub, in Farquhar’s “Beaux’ Stratagem.”
very tolerable. “Much Ado About Nothing,” iii, 3, 37.