[P. 246.] a chartered libertine. “Henry V,” i, 1, 48.
[P. 247.] Like proud seas. “Two Noble Kinsmen,” ii, 2, 23.
Did the latter ever acknowledge the obligation? Scott wrote to Byron’s publisher, John Murray, December 17, 1821: “I accept with feelings of great obligation, the flattering proposal of Lord Byron to prefix my name to the very grand and tremendous drama of ‘Cain.’ I may be partial to it, and you will allow I have cause; but I do not think that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight amid her former soarings.”
Farthest from them. “Paradise Lost,” I, 247.
[P. 248.] the first Vision of Judgment, the one composed by Southey on the occasion of the death of George III, celebrating that monarch’s entry into heaven and provoking a spirited travesty from Byron.
None but itself. This line is quoted by Burke in the “Letters on a Regicide Peace,” from a play written or adapted by Lewis Theobald, “The Double Falsehood” (1727). Waller-Glover.
the tenth transmitter. Richard Savage’s “The Bastard.”
[P. 250.] Nothing can cover. Beaumont and Fletcher’s “The False One,” ii, 1.
ON POETRY IN GENERAL
This is the first of the “Lectures on the English Poets.”