smite or shine_.--[MS.]
_Appears unfit to smite or shine_.--[MS. erased]

[112] [In defence of lines 922-927, which had been attacked by a critic
in the _British Review_, October, 1813, vol. v. p. 139, who compared
them with some lines in Crabbe's _Resentment_ (lines 11--16, _Tales_,
1812, p. 309), Byron wrote to Murray, October 12, 1813, "I have ... read
the British Review. I really think the writer in most points very right.
The only mortifying thing is the accusation of imitation. _Crabbe's_
passage I never saw; and Scott I no further meant to follow than in his
_lyric_ measure, which is Gray's, Milton's, and any one's who like it."
The lines, which Moore quotes (_Life_, p. 191), have only a formal and
accidental resemblance to the passage in question.]

[113] {129} [Compare--

"To surfeit on the same [our pleasures]
And yawn our joys. Or thank a misery
For change, though sad?"

_Night Thoughts_, iii., by Edward Young; Anderson's _British Poets_, x.
72. Compare, too, _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanza vi, line 8--

"With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe."]

[114] [Byron was wont to let his imagination dwell on these details of
the charnel-house. In a letter to Dallas, August 12, 1811, he writes, "I
am already too familiar with the dead. It is strange that I look on the
skulls which stand beside me (I have always had four in my study)
without emotion, but I cannot strip the features of those I have known
of their fleshy covering, even in idea, without a hideous sensation; but
the worms are less ceremonious." See, too, his "Lines inscribed upon a
Cup formed from a Skull," _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 276.]

[115] {130} The pelican is, I believe, the bird so libelled, by the
imputation of feeding her chickens with her blood. [It has been
suggested that the curious bloody secretion ejected from the mouth of
the flamingo may have given rise to the belief, through that bird having
been mistaken for the "pelican of the wilderness."--_Encycl. Brit._,
art. "Pelican" (by Professor A. Newton), xviii. 474.]

[ea] _Than feeling we must feel no more_.--[MS.]

[116] {131} [Compare--

"I'd rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapours of a dungeon."

_Othello_, act iii. sc. 3, lines 274, 275.]

[eb] _Though hope hath long withdrawn her beam_.--[MS.] [This line was
omitted in the Third and following Editions.]

[ec] {132}
_Through ranks of steel and t