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" 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 275
1808
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The works of lord Byron, comprehending the suppressed poems, Volumes 1-2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 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...pleading- minority. We have it in the title-page, and on ihe very back of the volume ; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style. Much stress is...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: With ...

John Watkins - 1822 - 452 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...stagnant water. As an extenuation of this offence, 70 EDINBURGH REVIEW. the noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading minority. We have it in the...
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The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the Right Hon. George ..., Volume 1

1825 - 454 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 titleHOUUS OF IDLENESS. ()3 page, and on the very back of the volume ; it follows his name like a favourite...
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The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical notice ..., Volume 7

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 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...this offence, the noble author is peculiarly forward 14. in pleading minority. We have it in the title-page, and on the very back of the volume; it follows...
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Memoirs of the life and writings of lord Byron

George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can uo more get above or below the level than it they were so much stagnant water. As an extenuation...in pleading minority. We have it in the title-page, aud on the very back of the volume ; it follows his name like a favorite part of bis style. Much stress...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron

George Clinton - 1825 - 826 pages
...deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and cun no more get above or below the level than if they...an extenuation of this offence, the noble author is peculiar!} forward in pleading minority. We have it in the title-page, and on the very back of the...
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First flowers, by a literary amateur

First flowers - 1825 - 306 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.' Insensate souls! they could write thus, after perusing (or pretending to have perused) such lines as...
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Blossoms at Christmas and First Flowers of the New Year

1825 - 306 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.' Insensate souls! they could write thus, after perusing (or pretending to have perused) such lines as...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 11

Reuben Percy - 1826 - 384 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." It was perhaps fortunate for the world, and certainly fortunate for Lord Byron, that his first efforts...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 11

1826 - 372 pages
...deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead fl.it, and can no more get above or below the level, than if they were so much stagnant water." It was perhaps fortunate for the world, and certainly fortunate for Lord Byron, that his first efforts...
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