FOOTNOTES:
[444] This dedicatory sonnet may possibly have been inscribed to his sister, whose reading of Milton's sonnets in 1801 first led him (as the Fenwick note tells us) to write sonnets.—Ed.
[445] See the note on the previous page.—Ed.
[446] 1837.
... gather it. O chief
Of Friends! such feelings if I here present,
Such thoughts, with others mixed less fortunate;
Then smile into my heart a fond belief
That Thou, ... 1827.
[447] 1837.
Receiv'st the gift for ... 1827.
"Something less than joy, but more than dull content."
Countess of Winchelsea.—W. W. 1837.