 The poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. Indeed, we do not recollect to have seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2751808Full view - About this book
 | 1811 - 450 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...water — As an extenuation of this offence, the noble authour is peculiarly forward in pleading minority. We have it in tie titlepage, and on the very back... | |
 | 1814 - 568 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...peculiarly forward in pleading minority. We have it in the title page, and on the very back of the volume ; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style.... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead Sat, and can no more get above or below the level than...peculiarly forward in pleading minority. We have it in the title page, and on the very back of the volume ; it follows his name like a favourite part of his styleMuch... | |
 | 1817 - 254 pages
...seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat,, and can no more get above or below...level, than if they were so much stagnant water." And in another place it was declared, that there were but two motives for reviewing his work, first,... | |
 | 1817 - 236 pages
...of verse with so few deviations from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead fiat, and can no more get above or below the level, than if they were so much stagnant water." And in another place it was declared, that there were but two motives for reviewing his work, first,... | |
 | 1822 - 932 pages
...young Lord belongs to the class which neitliermen nor gods are said to permit. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the level, than it' they were so much stagnant water." Having made this estimate of the noble poet'* powers, which,... | |
 | 1820 - 422 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His eifusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...level, than if they were so much stagnant water.' (Vol. xi, p. 285.) This hard usage his lordship retorted by a satire*, 1 See TT for 1817, p. 6. 1 '... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 404 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard, His effusions are spread over a dead flat , and can no more get above or below...level , than if they were so much stagnant water. As ail extenuation of this offence , the noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading minority. We have... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...class which neither gods nor men are said to permit." " His effusions," they go on to add, " are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above, or below...level, than if they were so much stagnant water." Poems " without even one thought;" " hobbling stanzas;" " things, and other things called translations;"... | |
 | 1820 - 558 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...it in the title-page, and on the very back of the vo. lume; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style. Much stress is laid upon it in the... | |
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