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A FRAGMENT. (1)

June 17, 1816. In the year 17-, having for some time determined on a journey through countries not hitherto much frequented by travellers, I set out, accompanied by a friend, whom I shall designate by the name of Augustus Darvel. He was a few years my elder, and a man of considerable fortune and ancient family; advantages which an extensive capacity prevented him alike from undervaluing or overrating. Some peculiar circumstances in his private history had rendered him to me an object of attention, of interest, and even of regard, which neither the reserve of his manners, nor occasional indications of an inquietude, at times nearly approaching to alienation of mind, could extinguish.

I was yet young in life, which I had begun early; but my intimacy with him was of a recent date: we had been educated at the same schools and university; but his progress through these had preceded mine, and he had been deeply initiated into what is called the world, while I was yet in my noviciate. While thus engaged, I heard much both of his past and present life; and, although in these accounts there were many and irreconcileable contradictions, I could still gather from the whole that he was a being of no common order, and one who, whatever pains he might take to avoid remark, would still be remarkable. I had cultivated his acquaintance subsequently, and endeavoured to obtain his friendship, but this last appeared to be unattainable; whatever affections he might have possessed, seemed now, some to have been extinguished, and others to be concentred: that his feelings were acute, I had sufficient opportunities of observing; for, although he could control, he could not altogether disguise them: still he had a power of giving to one passion the appearance of another, in such a manner that it was difficult to define the nature of what was working within him; and the expressions of his features would vary so rapidly, though slightly, that it was useless to try to trace them to their sources. It was evident that he was a prey to some cureless disquiet; but whether it arose from ambition, love, remorse, grief, from one or all of these, or merely from a morbid temperament akin to disease, I could not discover: there were circumstances alleged, which might have justified the application to each of these causes; but, as I have before said, these were so contradictory and contradicted, that none could be fixed upon with accuracy. Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil: I know not how this may be, but in him there certainly was the one, though I could not ascertain the extent of the other and felt loth, as far as regarded himself, to believe in its existence. My advances were received with sufficient coldness; but I was young, and not easily discouraged, and at length succeeded in obtaining, to a certain degree, that common-place intercourse and moderate confidence of common and every-day concerns, created and

(1) "During a week of rain at Diodati, in the summer of 1816, the party having amused themselves with reading German ghost stories, they agreed at last to write something in imitation of them. 'You and I,' said Lord Byron to Mrs. Shelley, will publish ours together.' He then began his tale of the Vampire; and, having the whole arranged in his head, repeated to them a sketch of the story one evening; but, from the narrative being in prose, made but little progress in filling up his outline. The most memorable re

cemented by similarity of pursuit and frequency of meeting, which is called intimacy, or friendship, a cording to the ideas of him who uses those words express them.

Darvell had already travelled extensively; and him I had applied for information with regard to the conduct of my intended journey. It was my secret wish that he might be prevailed on to accompany me it was also a probable hope, founded upon the shadowy restlessness which I had observed in him, and to which the animation which he appeared to feel on such subjects, and his apparent indifference to all by which he was more immediately surrounded, gave fresh strength. This wish I first hinted, and thes expressed his answer, though I had partly expected it, gave me all the pleasure of surprise-he consented; and, after the requisite arrangement, we commenced our voyages. After journeying through various contries of the south of Europe, our attention was turned towards the East, according to our original destination; and it was in my progress through those regions that the incident occurred upon which will turn what I may have to relate.

The constitution of Darvell, which must from his appearance have been in early life more than usually robust, had been for some time gradually giving way, without the intervention of any apparent disease: h had neither cough nor hectic, yet he became day more enfeebled his habits were temperate, and be neither declined nor complained of fatigue; yet he was evidently wasting away: he became more and more silent and sleepless, and at length so seriously altered, that my alarm grew proportionate to what I conceived to be his danger.

We had determined, on our arrival at Smyrna, to an excursion to the ruins of Ephesus and Sardis, fru which I endeavoured to dissuade him in his presest, state of indisposition-but in vain there appeared to be an oppression on his mind, and a solemnity i his manner, which ill corresponded with his eagerness to proceed on what I regarded as a mere party of plisasure, little suited to a valetudinarian; but I oppod him no longer and in a few days we set off together, accompanied only by a serrugee and a single jamizary

We had passed half-way towards the remains Ephesus, leaving behind us the more fertile environs of Smyrna, and were entering upon that wild a tenantless tract, through the marshes and def which lead to the few huts yet lingering over th broken columns of Diana-the roofless walls f expelled Christianity, and the still more recent b complete desolation of abandoned mosquesthe sudden and rapid illness of my companion obliged us to halt at a Turkish cemetery, the turbaned tombstones of which were the sole indication that human life had ever been a sojourner in this wilderness The only caravansera we had seen was left some hours behind us, not a vestige of a town or even coltage was within sight or hope, and this "city of the dead" appeared to be the sole refuge for my unfo

sult, indeed, of their story-telling compact, was Mrs. She ley's wild and powerful romance of Frankenstein-N

"I began it," says Lord Byron, "in an old account-bed of Miss Milbanke's, which I kept because it contas word 'Household,' written by her twice on the inside his page of the covers; being the only two scraps I have is th world in her writing, except her name to the Deed of paration."-L. E.

tunate friend, who seemed on the verge of becoming the last of its inhabitants.

In this situation, I looked round for a place where he might most conveniently repose:-contrary to the usual aspect of Mahometan burial-grounds, the cypresses were in this few in number, and these thinly scattered over its extent: the tombstones were mostly fallen, and worn with age:-upon one of the most considerable of these, and beneath one of the most spreading trees, Darvell supported himself, in a halfreclining posture, with great difficulty. He asked for water. I had some doubts of our being able to find any, and prepared to go in search of it with hesitating despondency: but he desired me to remain; and turning to Suleiman, our janizary, who stood by us smoking with great tranquillity, he said, "Suleiman, verbana su," (i. e. bring some water,) and went on describing the spot where it was to be found with great minuteness, at a small well for camels, a few hundred yards to the right: the janizary obeyed. I said to Darvel, "How did you know this?" — He replied, "From our situation; you must perceive that this place was once inhabited, and could not have been so without springs: I have also been here before." "You have been here before! How came you never to mention this to me? and what could you be doing in a place where no one would remain a moment longer than they could help it?"

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To this question I received no answer. mean time Suleiman returned with the water, leaving the serrugee and the horses at the fountain. The quenching of his thirst had the appearance of reviving him for a moment; and I conceived hopes of his being able to proceed, or at least to return, and I urged the attempt. He was silent-and appeared to be collecting his spirits for an effort to speak. He began

"This is the end of my journey, and of my life; - I came here to die: but I have a request to make, a command-for such my last words must be. You will observe it?"

"Most certainly; but have better hopes." "I have no hopes, nor wishes, but this-conceal my death from every human being."

"I hope there will be no occasion; that you will recover, and

"Peace!-it must be so: promise this." "I do."

"Swear it, by all that- "He here dictated an oath of great solemnity.

"There is no occasion for this - I will observe your request; and to doubt me is

"It cannot be helped,-you must swear."

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I took the oath: it appeared to relieve him. He removed a seal ring from his finger, on which were some Arabic characters, and presented it to me. He proceeded:

"Why?" "You will see."

"The ninth day of the month, you say?" "The ninth."

As I observed that the present was the ninth day of the month, his countenance changed, and he paused. As he sat, evidently becoming more feeble, a stork, with a snake in her beak, perched upon a tombstone near us; and, without devouring her prey, appeared to be steadfastly regarding us. I know not what impelled me to drive it away, but the attempt was useless; she made a few circles in the air, and returned exactly to the same spot. Darvell pointed to it, and smiled: he spoke-I know not whether to himself or to me-but the words were only, "T is well!" "What is well? what do you mean?"

"No matter you must bury me here this evening, and exactly where that bird is now perched. You know the rest of my injunctions."

He then proceeded to give me several directions as to the manner in which his death might be best concealed. After these were finished, he exclaimed, "You perceive that bird?"

Certainly."

"And the serpent writhing in her beak?"

"Doubtless: there is nothing uncommon in it; it is her natural prey. But it is odd that she does not devour it."

He smiled in a ghastly manner, and said, faintly, "It is not yet time!" As he spoke, the stork flew away. My eyes followed it for a moment-it could hardly be longer than ten might be counted. I felt Darvell's weight, as it were, increase upon my shoulder, and turning to look upon his face, perceived that he was dead!

I was shocked with the sudden certainty which could not be mistaken-his countenance in a few minutes became nearly black. I should have attributed so rapid a change to poison, had I not been aware that he had no opportunity of receiving it unperceived. The day was declining, the body was rapidly altering; and nothing remained but to fulfil his request. With the aid of Suleiman's ataghan and my own sabre, we scooped a shallow grave upon the spot which Darvell had indicated the earth easily gave way, having already received some Mahometan tenant. We dug as deeply as the time permitted us, and throwing the dry earth upon all that remained of the singular being so lately departed, we cut a few sods of greener turf from the less withered soil around us, and laid them upon his sepulchre,

Between astonishment and grief, I was tearless.

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TWO EPISTLES

NEW TESTAMENT. (1)

"On the ninth day of the month, at noon precisely FROM THE ARMENIAN VERSION OF THE (what month you please, but this must be the day), you must fling this ring into the salt springs which run into the Bay of Eleusis: the day after, at the same hour, you must repair to the ruins of the temple of Ceres, and wait one hour."

(1) Lord Byron, it appears from a letter to Mr. Murray, dated January, 1817, and a note found among his papers after his Lordship's decease, commenced the study of the Armenian at Venice, towards the close of 1816. These Epistles are the only fruit of his labours, in this direction, which have reached the world.-P. E.

The Epistle of the Corinthians to St. Paul the Apostle. (2)

1. STEPHEN, (3) and the elders with him, Dabnus, Eubulus, Theophilus, and Xinon, to Paul, our father

(2) Some MSS. have the title thus: Epistle of Stephen the Elder to Paul the Apostle, from the Corinthians.

(3) In the MSS. the marginal verses published by the Whistons are wanting.

and evangelist, and faithful master in Jesus Christ, health.(1)

2. Two men have come to Corinth, Simon by name, and Cleobus, (2) who vehemently disturb the faith of some with deceitful and corrupt words;

3. Of which words thou shouldst inform thyself: 4. For neither have we heard such words from thee, nor from the other apostles:

5. But we know only that what we have heard from thee and from them, that we have kept firmly.

6. But in this chiefly has our Lord had compassion, that, whilst thou art yet with us in the flesh, we are again about to hear from thee.

7. Therefore do thou write to us, or come thyself amongst us quickly.

8. We believe in the Lord, that, as it was revealed to Theonas, he hath delivered thee from the hands of the unrighteous. (3)

9. But these are the sinful words of these impure men, for thus do they say and teach:

10. That it behoves not to admit the Prophets.(4) 11. Neither do they affirm the omnipotence of God: 12. Neither do they affirm the resurrection of the flesh:

13. Neither do they affirm that man was altogether created by God:

14. Neither do they affirm that Jesus Christ was born in the flesh from the Virgin Mary:

15. Neither do they affirm that the world was the work of God, but of some one of the angels.

16. Therefore do thou make haste (5) to come amongst us;

17. That this city of the Corinthians may remain without scandal;

18. And that the folly of these men may be made manifest by an open refutation. Fare thee well,(6)

The deacons Thereptus and Tichus (7) received and conveyed this Epistle to the city of the Philippians. (8)

When Paul received the Epistle, although he was then in chains on account of Stratonice, (9) the wife of Apofolanus, (10) yet, as it were forgetting his bonds, he mourned over these words, and said, weeping: "It were better for me to be dead, and with the Lord. For while I am in this body, and hear the wretched words of such false doctrine, behold, grief arises upon

grief, and my trouble adds a weight to my chains; when I behold this calamity, and progress of the machinations of Satan, who searcheth to do wrong." And thus, with deep affliction, Paul composed his reply to the Epistle. (11)

EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS. (12) 1. Paul, in bonds for Jesus Christ, disturbed by so many errors, (13) to his Corinthian brethren, health.

(1) In some MSS. we find, The elders Numenus, Eubulus, Theophilus, and Nomeson, to Paul their brother, health! (2) Others read, There came certain men, .... and Clobeus, who vehemently shake.

(3) Some MSS. have, We believe in the Lord, that his presence was made manifest; and by this hath the Lord delivered us from the hands of the unrighteous.

Others read, To read the Prophets.

(5) Some MSS. have, Therefore, brother, do thou make

haste.

(6) Others read, Fare thee well in the Lord.

(7) Some MSS. have, The deacons Therepus and Techus. (8) The Whistons have, To the city of Phænicia: but in all the MSS. we find, To the city of the Philippians.

2. I nothing marvel that the preachers of evil have made this progress.

3. For because the Lord Jesus is about to fall his coming, verily on this account do certain men pë vert and despise his words.

4. But I, verily, from the beginning, have taught. ¦ = you that only which I myself received from the former apostles, who always remained with the Lord Jesus Christ.

5. And I now say unto you, that the Lord Jess Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, who was of the seed of David,

6. According to the annunciation of the Holy Ghost. sent to her by our Father from Heaven;

7. That Jesus might be introduced into the world, (14) and deliver our flesh by his flesh, and that he might raise us up from the dead;

8. As in this also he himself became the example: 9. That it might be made manifest that man was created by the Father,

10. He has not remained in perdition unsought;(15) 11. But he is sought for, that he might be revived by adoption.

12. For God, who is the Lord of all, the Fathe of our Lord Jesus Christ, who made heaven and earth, sent, firstly, the Prophets to the Jews:

13. That he would absolve them from their sins, and bring them to his judgment.

14. Because he wished to save, firstly, the house of Israel, he bestowed and poured forth his Spirit upon the Prophets;

15. That they should, for a long time, preach the worship of God, and the nativity of Christ. 16. But he who was the prince of evil, when ir wished to make himelf God, laid his hand 17. And bound all men in sin, (16) 18. Because the judgment of the world was proaching.

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19. But Almighty God, when he willed to justi, was unwilling to abandon his creature; 20. But when he saw his affliction, he had con passion upon him:

21. And at the end of a time, he sent the H Ghost into the Virgin foretold by the Prophets. 22. Who, believing readily, (17) was made worthy to conceive, and bring forth our Lord Jesus Christ evil spirit was glorified, he should be cast out, an 23. That from this perishable body, in which the

it should be made manifest

24. That he was not God: For Jesus Christ, a his flesh, had recalled and saved this perishable des and drawn it into eternal life by faith.

25. Because in his body he would prepare a part temple of justice for all ages;

26. In whom we also, when we believe, are saved

(9) Others read, On account of Onotice. (10) The Whistons have, Of Apollophanus: but in all the MSS. we read, Apofolanus.

(II) In the text of this Epistle there are some other variations in the words, but the sense is the same.

(12) Some MSS. have, Paul's Epistle from prison, for th

instruction of the Corinthians.

(13) Others read, Disturbed by various compunctions. (14) Some MSS. have, That Jesus might comfort the worl (15) Others read, He has not remained indifferent. (16) Some MSS. have, Laid his hand, and them and al

body bound in sin.

(17) Others read, Believing with a pure heart.

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27. Therefore know ye that these men are not the children of justice, but the children of wrath; 28. Who turn away from themselves the compassion of God;

29. Who say that neither the heavens nor the earth were altogether works made by the hand of the Father of all things. (1)

30. But these cursed men (2) have the doctrine of the serpent.

31. But do ye, by the power of God, withdraw yourselves far from these, and expel from amongst you the doctrine of the wicked.

32. Because you are not the children of rebellion, (3) but the sons of the beloved church.

33. And on this account the time of the resurrection is preached to all men.

34. Therefore they who affirm that there is no resurrection of the flesh, they indeed shall not be raised up to eternal life;

35. But to judgment and condemnation shall the unbeliever arise in the flesh;

36. For to that body which denies the resurrection of the body, shall be denied the resurrection: because such are found to refuse the resurrection.

37. But you also, Corinthians! have known, from the seeds of wheat, and from other seeds,

38. That one grain falls (4) dry into the earth, and within it first dies,

39. And afterwards rises again, by the will of the Lord, endued with the same body:

40. Neither indeed does it arise with the same simple body, but manifold, and filled with blessing. 41. But we produce the example not only from seeds, but from the honourable bodies of men. (5)

42. Ye have also known Jonas, the son of Amittai. (6)

43. Because he delayed to preach to the Ninevites, he was swallowed up in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights;

44 And after three days God heard his supplication, and brought him out of the deep abyss;

45. Neither was any part of his body corrupted; neither was his eyebrow bent down. (7)

46. And how much more for you, O men of little

faith; 47. If you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, will he raise you up, even as he himself hath arisen. 48. If the bones of Elisha the prophet, falling upon the dead, revived the dead,

49. By how much more shall ye, who are supported by the flesh and the blood and the Spirit of Christ, arise again on that day with a perfect body? 50. Elias the prophet, embracing the widow's son, raised him from the dead:

51. By how much more shall Jesus Christ revive you, on that day, with a perfect body, even as he himself hath arisen?

52. But if ye receive other things vainly, (8) 53. Henceforth no one shall cause me to travail; for I bear on my body these fetters, (9)

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54. To obtain Christ; and I suffer with patience these afflictions, to become worthy of the resurrection of the dead.

55. And do each of you, having received the law from the hands of the blessed Prophets and the holy gospel, (10) firmly maintain it;

56. To the end that you may be rewarded in the resurrection of the dead, and the possession of the life eternal.

57. But if any of ye, not believing, shall trespass, he shall be judged with the misdoers, and punished with those who have false belief.

58. Because such are the generation of vipers, and the children of dragons and basilisks.

59. Drive far from amongst ye, and fly from such, with the aid of our Lord Jesus Christ.

60. And the peace and grace of the beloved Son be upon you. (11) Amen.

Done into English by me, January, February, 1817, at the Convent of San Lazaro, with the aid and exposition of the Armenian Text by the Father Paschal Aucher, Armenian Friar.

VENICE, April 10, 1817.

BYRON.

I had also the Latin text, but it is in many places very corrupt, and with great omissions.

LETTER TO JOHN MURRAY, ESQ. ON THE REV. W. L. BOWLES'S STRICTURES ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF POPE.

"I'll play at Bowls with the sun and moon."-Old Song. "My mither's auld, Sir, and she has rather forgotten hersel in speaking to my Leddy, that canna weel bide to be contradickit, (as I ken naebody likes it, if they could help themsels.)"

Tales of My Landlord; Old Mortality, vol. ii. p. 163.

DEAR SIR,

RAVENNA, February 7, 1821.

In the different pamphlets which you have had the goodness to send me, on the Pope and Bowles's controversy, I perceive that my name is occasionally introduced by both parties. Mr. Bowles refers more than once to what he is pleased to consider "a remarkable circumstance," not only in his letter to Mr. Campbell, but in his reply to the Quarterly. The Quarterly also, and Mr. Gilchrist, have conferred on me the dangerous honour of a quotation; and Mr. Bowles indirectly makes a kind of appeal to me personally, by saying, "Lord Byron, if he remembers the circumstance, will witness" — (witness IN ITALIC, an ominous character for a testimony at present).

I shall not avail myself of a "non mi ricordo," even after so long a residence in Italy; - I do" remember the circumstance," and have no reluctance to relate it (since called upon so to do), as correctly as

(8) Some MSS. have, Ye shall not receive other things in

vain.

(9) Others finished here thus, Henceforth no one can trouble me further, for I bear in my body the sufferings of Christ. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, my brethren. Amen.

(10) Some MSS. have, Of the holy evangelist. (11) Others add, our Lord be with you all.

acquainted with many of the persons mentioned in it, and with some on terms of intimacy;" and that he knew "one family in particular to whom its suppres sion would give pleasure." I did not hesitate one moment, it was cancelled instantly; and it is no fault of mine that it has ever been republished. When I left England, in April, 1816, with no very violent intentions of troubling that country again, and amidst scenes of various kinds to distract my attention,— almost my last act, I believe, was to sign a power of attorney, to yourself, to prevent or suppress any attempts (of which several had been made in Ireland) at a republication. It is proper that I should state, that the persons with whom I was subsequently ac quainted, whose names had occurred in that publica tion, were made my acquaintances at their own desire, or through the unsought intervention of others. I never, to the best of my knowledge, sought a personal introduction to any. Some of them to this day I know

the distance of time and the impression of intervening events will permit me. In the year 1812, more than three years after the publication of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, I had the honour of meeting | Mr. Bowles, in the house of our venerable host of Human Life, etc. the last Argonaut of classic English poetry, and the Nestor of our inferior race of living poets. Mr. Bowles calls this "soon after" the publication; but to me three years appear a considerable segment of the immortality of a modern poem. I recollect nothing of "the rest of the company going into another room,"-nor, though I well remember the topography of our host's elegant and classically-furnished mansion, could I swear to the very room where the conversation occurred, though the "taking down the poem "9 seems to fix it in the library. Had it been "taken up," it would probably have been in the drawing-room. I presume also that the "remarkable circumstance" took place after dinner; as I conceive that neither Mr. Bowles's polite-only by correspondence; and with one of those it was ness nor appetite would have allowed him to detain "the rest of the company" standing round their chairs in the "other room," while we were discussing "the woods of Madeira," instead of circulating its vintage. Of Mr. Bowles's "good humour " I have a full and not ungrateful recollection; as also of his gentlemanly manners and agreeable conversation. I speak of the whole, and not of particulars; for whether he did or did not use the precise words printed in the pamphlet, I cannot say, nor could he with accuracy.

Of" the tone of seriousness" I certainly recollect nothing on the contrary, I thought Mr. Bowles rather disposed to treat the subject lightly; for he said (I have no objection to be contradicted, if incorrect), that some of his good-natured friends had come to him and exclaimed, "Eh! Bowles! how came you to make the woods of Madeira?" etc. etc. and that he had been at some pains and pulling down of the poem to convince them that he had never made "the woods" do any thing of the kind. He was right, and I was wrong, and have been wrong still up to this acknowledgment; for I ought to have looked twice before I wrote that which involved an inaccuracy capable of giving pain. fact was, that, although I had certainly before read the Spirit of Discovery, I took the quotation from the review. But the mistake was mine, and not the review's, which quoted the passage correctly enough, I believe. I blundered-God knows how into attributing the tremors of the lovers to the woods of Madeira," by which they were surrounded. And I hereby do fully and freely declare and asseverate, that the woods did not tremble to a kiss, and that the lovers did. I quote from memory

"A kiss

Stole on the listening silence, etc. etc.

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They [the lovers] trembled, even as if the power," etc. And if I had been aware that this declaration would have been in the smallest degree satisfactory to Mr. Bowles, I should not have waited nine years to make it, notwithstanding that English Bards and Scotch Reviewers had been suppressed some time previously to my meeting him at Mr. Rogers's. Our worthy host might indeed have told him as much, as it was at his representation that I suppressed it. edition of that lampoon was preparing for the press, when Mr. Rogers represented to me, that "I was now

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begun by myself, in consequence, however, of a polite verbal communication from a third person.

1 have dwelt for an instant on these circumstances, because it has sometimes been made a subject of bitter reproach to me to have endeavoured to suppress that | satire. I never shrunk, as those who know me know, from any personal consequences which could be at tached to its publication. Of its subsequent suppres sion, as I possessed the copyright, I was the best judge and the sole master. The circumstances which occasioned the suppression I have now stated; of the motives, each must judge according to his candour er malignity. Mr. Bowles does me the honour to talk of "noble mind," and "generous magnanimity;" and all this because "the circumstance would have been er plained had not the book been suppressed." 18 no "nobility of mind” in an act of simple justice; and I hate the word "magnanimity,” because I hate sometimes seen it applied to the grossest of impostos by the greatest of fools; but I would have “explained the circumstance," notwithstanding "the suppression of the book," if Mr. Bowles had expressed any desire that I should. As the "gallant Galbraith" says to "Baillie Jarvie," "Well, the devil take the mistake, and all that occasioned it." I have had as great and greater mistakes made about me personally and poeti cally, once a month for these last ten years, and never cared very much about correcting one or the other, at least after the first eight-and-forty hours had gone over them.

I must now, however, say a word or two about Pope, of whom you have my opinion more at large the unpublished letter on or to (for I forget which) the editor of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine;-and here I doubt that Mr. Bowles will not approve of my sentiments.

Although I regret having published English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, the part which I regret the least is that which regards Mr. Bowles with reference to Pope. Whilst I was writing that publication, in 1807 and 1808, Mr. Hobhouse was desirous that! should express our mutual opinion of Pope, and of Mr. Bowles's edition of his works. As I had com pleted my outline, and felt lazy, I requested that ke would do so. He did it. His fourteen lines on Bowles's Pope are in the first edition of English Barda and Scotch Reviewers; and are quite as severe and much more poetical than my own in the second. On

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