Epigraph
Lord Byron to Mr. Murray, Oct. 19, 1812.
“I like the volume of ‘Rejected Addresses’ better and better.”
Lord Byron to Mr. Murray, Oct. 19, 1812.
“I take the ‘Rejected Addresses’ to be the very best imitations (and often of difficult originals) that ever were made; and considering their great extent and variety, to indicate a talent to which I do not know where to look for a parallel. Some few of them descend to the level of parodies; but by far the greater part are of a much higher description.”
Lord Jeffrey (in 1843), Note in Essays, iv. 470