| Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 302 Seiten
...deserve. This is a part of the text of the celebrated review published in the Edinburgh in 1808 : , ' The poesy of this young lord 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... | |
| James Parton - 1883 - 860 Seiten
...celebrated article that stung the poet so cruelly. "The poesy of this young lord," began the reviewer, "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... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1888 - 844 Seiten
...they had but eyes to see. "This will never do!" said a great critic, of Tennyson'sjtirst attempts. " The poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit," said Lord Jeffrey of Byron. TtSo fared Coleridge himself at first, and Shelley, and Collins, and Gray,... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1888 - 884 Seiten
...they had but eyes to see. "This will never do!" said a great critic, of Tennyson's first attempts. " The poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit," said Lord Jeffrey of Byron. So fared Coleridge himself at first, and Shelley, and Collins, and Gray,... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 Seiten
...rasping critique in the Edinburgh Review. " The poesy of this young lord," it was said with some justice, "belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are...deviations in either direction from that exact standard." While affecting contempt for public opinion, Byron was always acutely sensitive to adverse criticism... | |
| Century Association (New York, N.Y.). Library, Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 408 Seiten
...Edinbu1-gh Review: "The poetry of this young lord belongs to a class which neither gods nor men arc said to permit. Indeed we do not recollect to have seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dull flat, and can no more get above or below... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 Seiten
...attack — not altogether undeserved, it must be allowed — of the Edinburgh upon Byron. " The poetry of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit", and so on for two or three pages of rather vulgar and heartless merriment at the young lord's expense.1... | |
| Century Association (New York, N.Y.). Library, Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 408 Seiten
...Review: "The poetry of this young lord belongs to a class which neither gods nor men are said tcrpermit. Indeed we do not recollect to have seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dull flat, and can no more get above or below... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1897 - 590 Seiten
...every one is aware. The verdict of the ' Edinburgh ' on Byron's ' Hours of Idleness ' — " the poetry of ' this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit," — may be forgiven ; for, in the first place, it was not undeserved ; in the second, it brought forth... | |
| J. Gordon Coogler - 1897 - 230 Seiten
...ithat 'Edinburgh' of the present time) delights in condemning the work of young authors, as 'belonging to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit.' For variety's sake, not truth and justice, I am glad that it exists, and I can hear from it occasionally.... | |
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