Note 36 — LIFE OF LORD BYRON. (continued 2)
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It may possibly have been the recollection of these pictures that suggested to him the following lines in the Siege of Corinth:—
"Like the figures on arras that gloomily glare, Stirr'd by the breath of the wintry air, So seen by the dying lamp's fitful light, Lifeless, but life-like and awful to sight; As they seem, through the dimness, about to come down From the shadowy wall where their images frown."