 ' brown chief" some time, the bards conclude by giving him their advice to " raise his fair locks ;" then to " spread them on the arch of the rainbow;" and «< to smile through the tears of the storm." Of this kind of thing there are no less than nine...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2781808Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Raine Curlewis - 1906 - 324 pages
...Review, was quite safe in saying of them : " Of this sort of thing there are no less than nine pages. They look very like Macpherson ; and we are positive .they are pretty nearly as stupid and tiresome." What is the difference ? Simply this. You may criticise as severely as you please the work of a man... | |
 | 1911 - 450 pages
...him their advice to "raise his fair locks ;" then to "spread them on the arch of the rainbow ;" and "to smile through the tears of the storm." Of this...pages ; and we can so far venture an opinion in their favor, that they look very like Macpherson; and we are positive they are pretty nearly as stupid and... | |
 | 1911 - 918 pages
...him their advice to "raise his fair locks ;" then to "spread them on the arch of the rainbow ;" and "to smile through the tears of the storm." Of this...pages; and we can so far venture an opinion in their favor, that they look very like Macpherson; and we are positive they are pretty nearly as stupid and... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 pages
...exercises, they may pass. Only why print them after they have had their day and served their turn ? . . . It is a sort of privilege of poets to be egotists ; but they should " use it as not abusing it " ; and particularly one who piques himself (though indeed at the ripe age... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 512 pages
...their advice to " raise his " fair locks ; " then to " spread them on the arch of the rain" bow ; " and to " smile through the tears of the storm." Of this...like Macpherson ; and we are positive they are pretty i/nearly as stupid and tiresome. 348 APPENDIX. [ll. should " use it as not abusing it ; " and particularly... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 236 pages
...these early critics. Look at Brougham's Edinburgh review of Byron's Hours of Idleness (Jan. 1808). "It is a sort of privilege of poets to be egotists ; but they should ' use it as not abusing it ' ; and particularly one who piques himself (though, indeed, at the ripe... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 pages
...giving him their advice to 'raise his fair locks;' then to 'spread them on the arch of the rainbow;' and to 'smile through the tears of the storm.' Of this kind of thing there are no less than nine 1 [See PW, I, 147, 149: The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Oxford Standard Authors, 1960, p. 5.] pages... | |
 | Matthew Iley, J. M. Millingen - 1825 - 448 pages
...him their advice to ' raise his fair locks ;' then to ' spread them on the arch of a rainbow ;' and ' to smile through the tears of the storm.' Of this...privilege of poets to be egotists ; but they should ' use it as not abusing it ;' and particularly one who piques himself (though indeed at the ripe age... | |
 | Victor Hugo - 2008 - 350 pages
...adieu to Thermopylae. pherson itself, were we to express our opinion of Lord Byron's rhapsodies. . . . We can so far venture an opinion in their favour,...positive they are pretty nearly as stupid and tiresome. . . . " As the author has dedicated a part of his volume to immortalize his employments at school and... | |
 | Victor Hugo - 2008 - 350 pages
...adieu to Thermopylae. pherson itself, were we to express our opinion of Lord Byron's rhapsodies. . . . We can so far venture an opinion in their favour,...positive they are pretty nearly as stupid and tiresome. . . . " As the author has dedicated a part of his volume to immortalize his employments at school and... | |
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