183—To R.C. Dallas
Newstead Abbey, Sept. 10, 1811.
Dear Sir,—I rather think in one of the opening stanzas of
Childe Harold
there is this line:
'Tis said at times the sullen tear would start.
Now, a line or two after, I have a repetition of the epithet "
sullen
reverie;" so (if it be so) let us have "speechless reverie," or "silent reverie;" but, at all events, do away the recurrence.
Yours ever,
B.
