...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...very back of the volume; it follows his name like a favorite part of his style. Much stress is laid upon it in the preface, and the poems are connected...

...belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. . . . His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...the level, than if they were so much stagnant water. 99 There certainly was weak verse in the book, but there was much that was precociously clever, and...

...sarcastic review of the volume, probably written by Lord Brougham. "The noble author," writes the reviewer, "is peculiarly forward in pleading minority ; we have...the title-page, and on the very back of the volume. ... If any suit could be brought against Lord Byron, for the purpose of compelling him to put into...

...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 tide-page, and on the very back of the volume; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style....

...young lord belongs to the class which neither men or Gods are said to permit: his effusions are spread over a dead flat and can no more get above or below...the level than if they were so much stagnant water'. 21 Neither the title of Byron's early verse, Hours of Idleness (1807), nor his pose as a young aristocratic...

...belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. . . . His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...the noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading his minority. . . . He possibly means to say : " See how a minor can write ! " But, alas I " Don Juan...

...belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. . . . His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...the noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading his minority. . . . He possibly means to say : " See how a minor can write ! " But, alas I " Don Juan...

...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." Again. "With this view we must beg leave seriously to assure him, that the mere rhyming of the final...

...belongs to the class that neither gods nor men are said to permit. . . . . His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the surface than so much stagnant water ! " It was easy enough to deal satirical hits at T7ie Hours of...