“Has spoken severely of my compositions. However faulty they may be, I
do not think I ever could have prevailed with myself to print such lines
as he has done, for instance--
‘I stood at Venice on the Bridge of Sighs,
A palace and a prison on each hand.’
“Some person ought to write a critical review analising Lord Byron’s
language, in order to guard others against imitating him in these
respects.”