Note 412 — MISCELLANEOUS RECOLLECTIONS A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER BEGUN IN 1826 (continued 2)
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[Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), son of a large land-owner in Jamaica. He was for a short time attaché at the Hague, where he wrote The Monk; and sat in the House of Commons 1792-1802. Sir Walter Scott said of his verses, “He had the finest ear for rhythm I ever met with—finer than Byron’s.”]