Knights and dames I sing, Such as the times may furnish: ’tis a flight Which seems at first to need no lofty wing Plumed by Longinus, or the Stagyrite: The difficulty lies in colouring, (Keeping the due proportions still in sight,) With nature, manners which are artificial, And rendering general that which is especial. BYRON. Some years had passed over Sir North Saunders’ head since we were last in his company, and yet we shall find him much as we left him, neither richer nor poorer, wiser nor better, nor, except “quoad” baptismal register, much older than when, upon first establishing himself for the summer season at Hornscliff Abbey, he had accompanied Castleton and Lady Madelina to Morde…
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