The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.], Том 1Colburn, 1825 |
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William Hazlitt. LORD BYRON . LORD BYRON and Sir Walter Scott are among writers now living * the two , who would carry away a majority of suffrages as the greatest geniuses of the age . The former would , perhaps , obtain the preference ...
William Hazlitt. LORD BYRON . LORD BYRON and Sir Walter Scott are among writers now living * the two , who would carry away a majority of suffrages as the greatest geniuses of the age . The former would , perhaps , obtain the preference ...
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William Hazlitt. If Sir Walter Scott may be thought by some to have been " Born universal heir to all humanity , " it is plain Lord Byron can set up no such pretension . He is , in a striking degree , the creature of his own will . He ...
William Hazlitt. If Sir Walter Scott may be thought by some to have been " Born universal heir to all humanity , " it is plain Lord Byron can set up no such pretension . He is , in a striking degree , the creature of his own will . He ...
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... Lord Byron's verse glows like a flame , consuming every thing in its way ; Sir Walter Scott's glides like a river , clear , gentle , harmless . The poetry of the first scorches , that of the last scarcely warms . The light of the one ...
... Lord Byron's verse glows like a flame , consuming every thing in its way ; Sir Walter Scott's glides like a river , clear , gentle , harmless . The poetry of the first scorches , that of the last scarcely warms . The light of the one ...
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... Lord Byron , when he pleases , defies compe- tition and surpasses all his contemporaries . Whatever he does , he must do in a more de- cided and daring manner than any one else -he lounges with extravagance , and yawns ... LORD BYRON . 163.
... Lord Byron , when he pleases , defies compe- tition and surpasses all his contemporaries . Whatever he does , he must do in a more de- cided and daring manner than any one else -he lounges with extravagance , and yawns ... LORD BYRON . 163.
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... Sir Walter Scott ( meaning thereby the Author of Waverley ) than Lord Byron , a hundred times over . And for the reason just given , namely , that he casts his descriptions in the mould of nature , ever - varying , never tiresome ...
... Sir Walter Scott ( meaning thereby the Author of Waverley ) than Lord Byron , a hundred times over . And for the reason just given , namely , that he casts his descriptions in the mould of nature , ever - varying , never tiresome ...
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