| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 292 pages
...1821: — " Neither time, nor distance, nor grief, nor age, can ever diminish my veneration for him who is the great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feeling?, and of all stages of existence. The delight of my boyhood, the study of my manhood, perhaps... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...time, nor distance, nor age," writes Lord Byron in 1 81 1, " can ever diminish my veneration for him who is the great moral poet of all " times, of all...climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence. The delight of " my boyhood, the study of my manhood, perhaps (if allowed to me to attain to it) "... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 pages
...time, nor distance, nor age," writes Lord Byron in 1811, " can ever diminish my veneration for him who is the great moral poet of all " times, of all...climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence. The delight of "my boyhood, the study of my manhood, perhaps (if allowed to me to attain to it) " he... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 804 pages
...has received testimonies of a less equivocal kind. Byron called him, with characteristic vehemence, the " great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence ; " though it is not less characteristic that Byron was at the same time helping to dethrone the idol... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...has received testimonies of a less equivocal kind. Byron called him, with characteristic vehemence, the " great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence ;" though it is not less characteristic that Byron was at the same time helping to dethrone the idol... | |
| Sir Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 412 pages
...has received testimonies of a less equivocal kind. Byron called him, with characteristic vehemence, the ' great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence ;' though it is not less characteristic that Byron was at the same time helping to dethrone the idol... | |
| John Dennis - 1876 - 466 pages
...rapidity. Lord Byron, despite his intense admiration of Pope, whom, with exaggerated emphasis, he styled "the great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence," adding that " a thousand years will roll away before such another can be hoped for in our literature,"... | |
| John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pages
...his anger. " Neither time, nor distance, nor grief, nor age can ever diminish my veneration for Mm who is the great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence. . . . Your whole generation are not worth a canto of the Dunciad, or anything that is his." All the... | |
| John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pages
...his anger. " Neither time, nor distance, nor grief, nor age can ever diminish my veneration for him who is the great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence. . . . Your whole generation are not worth a canto of the Dunciad, or anything that is his." All the... | |
| 1883 - 778 pages
...his anger. " Neither time, nor distance, nor grief, nor age can ever diminish my veneration for him who is the great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence. . . . Your whole generation are not worth a canto of the Dunciad, or anything that is his." All the... | |
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