P. 151, book iv. l. 187—
Nor sleep, nor …
6. Vol. vii. p. 276.—This sonnet first appeared in the New Monthly Magazine, part ii. p. 26, under the title, To B. R. Haydon. Composed on seeing his Picture of Napoleon, musing at St. Helena; and it is dated “Saturday, June 11th, 1831.”
7. Vol. vii. p. 336.—This poem was published in the Saturday Magazine, May 18, 1844, in which the fifth line is—
Woe to the purblind men who fill.
8. It may be worth mentioning (1) that the quotation (not noted, unfortunately, where it occurs)—
Some natural tears she drops, but wipes them soon,
is from Paradise Lost, book xii. l. 645. See also An Elegy delivered at the Hot Wells, Bristol, July 1789. (2) That the phrase “numerous verse” is from Paradise Lost, book v. l. 150; and (3) that “lenient hand of Time” is from Bowles’ sonnet—
O Time, who know’st a lenient hand to lay
Softest on sorrow’s wound.