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above all praise of mine. His powers of mind, shown in the attainment of
greater honours, against the ablest candidates, than those of any
graduate on record at Cambridge, have sufficiently established his fame
on the spot where it was acquired; while his softer qualities live in
the recollection of friends who loved him too well to envy his
superiority. [To an objection made by Dallas to this note, Byron
replied, "I was so sincere in my note on the late Charles Matthews, and
do feel myself so totally unable to do justice to his talents, that the
passage must stand for the very reason you bring against it. To him all
the men I ever knew were pigmies. He was an intellectual giant. It is
true I loved Wingfield better; he was the earliest and the dearest, and
one of the few one could never repent of having loved: but in
ability--ah! you did not know Matthews,!"--_Letters_, 1898, ii. 8. [For
Charles Skinner Matthews, and the Honourable John Wingfield, see
_Letters_, 1898, i. 150 note, 180 note. See, too, "Childish
Recollections," _Poems_, 1898, i. 96, note.]

FOOTNOTES:

[110] {88} [_Vide post_, p. 196, note 1.]

[111] [In a letter to J. B. S. Morritt, April 26, 1811, Sir Walter Scott
writes, "I meditate some wild stanzas referring to the Peninsula; if I
can lick them into any shape, I hope to get something handsome from the
booksellers for the Portuguese sufferers: 'Silver and gold have I none,
but that which I have I will give unto them.' My lyrics are called The
Vision of Don Roderick."--Lockhart's _Mem. of the Life of Sir W. Scott_,
1871, p. 205.]

[112] {89} [Francois Horace Bastien Sebastiani (1772-1851), one of
Napoleon's generals, defeated the Spanish at Ciudad Real, March 17,
1809. In his official report he said that he had sabred more than 3000
Spaniards in flight. At the battle of Talavera, July 27, his corps
suffered heavily; but at Almonacid, August 11, he was again victorious
over the Spanish.]

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CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

CANTO THE SECOND.

Childe Harold
Canto 2.

Byron. Joannina in Albania.
Begun Oct. 31st 1809.
Concluded Canto 2. Smyrna.
March 28^th^, 1810. [MS. D.]

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