Note 79 — LIFE OF LORD BYRON. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Sept. 1807. This Review, in pronouncing upon the young author's future career, showed itself somewhat more "prophet-like" than the great oracle of the North. In noticing the Elegy on Newstead Abbey, the writer says, "We could not but hail, with something of prophetic rapture, the hope conveyed in the closing stanza:—
"Haply thy sun, emerging, yet may shine, Thee to irradiate with meridian ray," &c. &c.