No More Learning

465-467. Hobhouse transferred these "scratchings" to his pocket-books,
and thence to his _Historical Notes_; but even as prison inscriptions
they lack both point and style. ]

[60] [Compare--

"Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree
The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she. "

_As You Like It_, act iii. sc. 2, lines 9, 10. ]

[bk]

_Which never can be read but, as 'twas written,_
_By wretched beings_. --[MS. ]

[bl] {154}

_Of the familiar's torch, which seems to love_
_Darkness far more than light_. --[MS. ]

[61] {157}[Compare--

"Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider. "

_Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza ii.
lines 1-3,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 217, note 1. ]

[bm] _At once by briefer means and better_. --[MS. ]

[62] {158} In Lady Morgan's fearless and excellent work upon Italy, I
perceive the expression of "Rome of the Ocean" applied to Venice. The
same phrase occurs in the "Two Foscari. " My publisher can vouch for me,
that the tragedy was written and sent to England some time before I had
seen Lady Morgan's work, which I only received on the 16th of August. I
hasten, however, to notice the coincidence, and to yield the originality
of the phrase to her who first placed it before the public.

[Byron calls Lady Morgan's _Italy_ "fearless" on account of her
strictures on the behaviour of Great Britain to Genoa in 1814. "England
personally stood pledged to Genoa. . . . When the British officers rode
into their gates bearing the white flag consecrated by the holy word of
'_independence_,' the people . . .