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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 Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and ..., Volumes 61-62

1911 - 918 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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Essays at Large

Sir John Collings Squire - 1922 - 232 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...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...
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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 4

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1923 - 398 pages
...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...
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Lord Byron: The Critical Heritage

Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 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 tide-page, and on the very back of the volume; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style....
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The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf

Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster - 2005 - 340 pages
...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...
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Things Seen and Essays

Victor Hugo - 2008 - 350 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...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...
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Things Seen and Essays

Victor Hugo - 2008 - 350 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...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...
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Remarks on the Review of Inchiquin's Letters: Published in the Quarterly ...

Timothy Dwight, Jedidiah Morse - 1815 - 192 pages
...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...
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the ladies treasury for 1882 a household magazine

mrs. warren - 1882 - 804 pages
...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...
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