[232]. A house that had belonged to Milton. See vol. IV. The Spirit of the Age, pp. 189, 190 and note; and the frontispiece to vol. III.

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234. Though Mr. Hobhouse has written Annotations. John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gifford (1786–1869). See his Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of ‘Childe Harold,’ containing Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome, PAGE

and an Essay on Italian Literature, 1818, and the Notes to the Canto in Byron’s Poetical Works.

[234]. He hears it not. Byron, Childe Harold, IV. cxli. with sundry alterations.

[236]. So sit two Kings of Brentford. Cowper, The Task, I. 78.

[237]. Youthful poets dream of [fancy] when they love. Rowe’s Fair Penitent, Act III. Sc. 1.

Julia de Roubigne. A novel by Henry Mackenzie, the ‘Man of Feeling,’ (1745–1831), published 1777.

Miss Milner. The heroine of Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald’s (1753–1821) novel, A Simple Story (1791).