Note 80 — POEMS OF JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1816. THE DREAM.
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"Had I but sooner learnt the crowd to shun, I had been better than I now can be."
Epistle to Augusta, stanza xii. lines 5, 6, vide post, p. 61.
Compare, too—
"But soon he knew himself the most unfit Of men to herd with Man."
Childe Harold, Canto III. stanza xii. lines 1, 2, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 223.]