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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: Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and a Sketch of His ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...flat, and can no more get above or bclowj the lerel, than if they were so much stagnant water! As as extenuation of this offence, the noble author* is peculiarly forward in pleading minority ./Y?e\ пате it in the titlepage, and on the тегу back of the volume ; it follows his name like...
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Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, Volume 2

William Maginn - 1855 - 402 pages
...young Lord belongs to the elass which neither men nor gods are said to permit. His effusioas are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the level, than if they were so much stagaant water." Having made this estimnte of the noble pnet's powers, which, however justified by...
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The Odoherty Papers, Volume 2

William Maginn - 1855 - 408 pages
...the class which neither men nor gods are «,aid to permit. His effusions arc spread over a deud Hat, and can no more get above or below the level, than if they were so much stagnant water." Having made this estimate of the noblo poet's powers, which, however justified by some of the Minor's...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with life

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direetion from that exaet standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...so much stagnant water. As an extenuation of this offenoe, the noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading minority. We have it in the title-page,...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...flat, and can no more get above <>r below the level, -iban If they were ю much stagnant water. Ai au extenuation of this offence, the noble author Is peculiarly forward In pleading minority. \Ve have it In the titlepj*e. and on the тегу back of the volume ; It follows his name .lie a favourite...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and a Sketch of His ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...Terse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. Hie effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the 1ère), than if they were so much stagnant water. As an extenuation of this offence, the noble author...
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Poetical Works, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 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...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...
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People's Book of Biography: Or, Short Lives of the Most Interesting Persons ...

James Parton - 1868 - 694 pages
...which neither gods nor men are said to permit. . . . His effusions arc spread over a dead flat, aud can no more get above or below the level than if they were so much stagnant water." And so on for three bantering pages, interspersed with specimens of the noble "minor's " stanzas. -...
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Wellman's Miscellany, Volumes 5-7

1872 - 320 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direction from the exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the level, than if they were so much stgnant water. As an extenuation of this offence, the noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Volume 3, Part 1

George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 1873 - 380 pages
...deviations in either direetion from that exaet standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and ean no more get above or below the level, than if they were so mueh stagnant water. As an extenuation of this offenee, the noble author is peeuliarly forward in pleading...
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