"I think the 'Rejected Addresses' by far the best thing of the kind since 'The Rolliad,' and wish you had published them. Tell the author 'I forgive him, were he twenty times over our satirist;' and think his imitations not at all inferior to the famous ones of Hawkins Browne."

LORD BYRON TO MR. MURRAY, Oct. 19, 1812.

"I like the volume of 'Rejected Addresses' better and better."

LORD BYRON TO MR. MURRAY, Oct. 23, 1812.

"I take the 'Rejected Addresses' to be the very best imitations (and often of difficult originals) that ever were made: and considering their great extent and variety, to indicate a talent, to which I do not know where to look for a parallel. Some few of them descend to the level of parodies; but by far the greater part are of a much higher description."

LORD JEFFREY (in 1843), Note in Essays, iv. 470.