Note 285 — CANTO THE THIRD.
Reading edition
[Compare Manfred, act ii. sc. 2, lines 50-58—
"From my youth upwards My spirit walked not with the souls of men, Nor looked upon the earth with human eyes; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers Made me a stranger; though I wore the form, I had no sympathy with breathing flesh."
Compare, too, with stanzas xiii., xiv., ibid., lines 58-72.]