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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 Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 898 pages
...verse with BO few deviations In either direction from that exact standard. His effusion* are spread yron tne level, than if they were so much stagnant water. A- nn extenuation of this offence, the noble author...
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 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 title page, and on the back of the volume; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style....
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direction for that 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 stagnant water. . . . We desire to counsel him that he forthwith abandon poetry and turn his talents, which are considerable,...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 pages
...verse with so few deviations in either direction for that 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 stagnant water. . . . We desire to counsel him that he forthwith abandon poetry and turn his talents, which are considerable,...
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Instruction, a poem

Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 pages
...of vent with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. Bs effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...were so much stagnant water. As an extenuation of th,s offence, the noble anthor is peculiarly forward in pleading minority. We have it in the title-page,...
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Book of Biography ...: Of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries

James Parton - 1880 - 688 pages
...which neither gods nor men are said to permit. . . . His effusions are 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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Curiosities of Criticism

Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 214 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 titlepage and on tfce very back of the volume; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style. . . . Now, the...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with life

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...they were so mueh stagnant water. As an extenuation of this offenee, the noble author is peeuliarly forward in pleading minority. We have it in the title-page, and on the very baek of the volume ; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style. Mueh stress is laid upon...
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Cobwebs of Criticism: A Review of the First Reviewers of the 'Lake ...

Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 302 pages
...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...follows his name like a favourite part of his style. . . . Now the law on the point of minority we hold to be perfectly clear. It is a plea available only...
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Lord Byron and His Works: A Biography and Essay

Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 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...author is peculiarly forward in pleading minority " But alas, we all remember the poetry of Cowley at ten, and Pope at twelve ; and so far from hearing,...
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