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" ... given against him, it is highly probable that an exception would be taken, were he to deliver for poetry the contents of this volume. To this he might plead minority ; but as he now makes voluntary tender of the article, he hath no right to sue, on... "
Hours of Idleness: A Series of Poems, Original and Translated - Page 144
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1822 - 183 pages
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Cobwebs of Criticism: A Review of the First Reviewers of the 'Lake ...

Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 302 pages
...that an exception would be taken, were he to deliver for poetry the contents of this volume. To this he might plead minority; but as he now makes voluntary...current praise, should the goods be unmarketable. . . . Perhaps, however, in reality all that he tells us about his youth, is rather with a view to increase...
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Early Reviews of English Poets, Ed. with an Introduction by John Louis Haney ...

John Louis Haney - 1904 - 302 pages
...that an exception would be taken, were he to deliver for poetry, the contents of this volume. To this he might plead minority; but as he now makes voluntary...and, we dare to say, so will it be ruled. Perhaps, how94 BYRON'S HOURS OF IDLENESS 95 ever, in reality, all that he tells us about his youth, is rather...
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Famous Reviews

Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 pages
...that an exception would be taken, were he to deliver for poetry, the contents of this volume. To this he might plead minority ; but as he now makes voluntary...hath no right to sue, on that ground, for the price is in good current praise, should the goods be unmarketable. This is our view of the law on the point,...
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The Pilgrim of Eternity: Byron--a Conflict

John Drinkwater - 1925 - 448 pages
...... an exception [might] be taken were he to deliver for poetry the contents of this volume. To this he might plead minority; but as he now makes voluntary...good current praise, should the goods be unmarketable ... it is this consideration [his rank] only that induces us to give Lord Byron's poems a place in...
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