[302]: I like Junius, he was a good hater....
I don't understand yielding sensitiveness. What I feel is an immense rage for 48 hours.
[303]: Présent.
[304]: «Never mind, M. Roger, you shall not see any signs of it in me.»
[305]: I like energy,—even animal energy,—of all kinds—and have need of both, mental and corporal.
[306]: Il l'appelait «son héros de roman.»
[307]: English Bards and Scottish Reviewers.
[308]: Childe Harold is, I think, a very clever poem, but gives no good symptom of the writer's heart or morals. Vice ought to be a little more modest, and it must require impudence almost equal to the noble lord's other powers, to claim sympathy gravely for the ennui arising from his being tired of his wassailers and his paramours. There is a monstrous deal of conceit in it too, for it is informing the inferior part of the world, that their little old-fashioned scruples of limitation are not worthy of his regard....
My noble friend is something like my old peacock, who chooses to bivouac apart from his lady, and sits below my bed-room window, to keep me awake with his screeching lamentation. Only I own he is not equal in melody to lord Byron.
[309]: Il y a ici une citation de Macbeth que je traduis par un équivalent.