 | Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 pages
...but, at heart, '! would have termed Byron a patrician on principle. Lord Byron's reading does not seem to have been very extensive, either in poetry or history....competent share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eye objects which had for him the interest of novelty." Subsequent... | |
 | Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 pages
...Byron a patrician on principle. Lord Byron'a reading does not seem to have been very extensive, cither in poetry or history. Having the advantage of him in that respect, and possessing & good competent bharo of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under hia eye... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Authors, English - 1890 - 488 pages
...disappointed in this respect. I fcmnd Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even kind. . . . " Lord Byron's reading did not seem to me to have been...competent' share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eye objects which had for him the interest of novelty. I remember... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1897 - 510 pages
...two almost daily in Mr. Murray's drawing-room, and found a great deal to say to each other. . . . His reading did not seem to me to have been very extensive,...competent share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eye objects which had for him the interest of novelty." — Walter... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1897 - 508 pages
...two almost daily in Mr. Murray's drawing-room, and found n great deal to say to each other. . . . His reading did not seem to me to have been very extensive,...possessing a good competent share of such reading is is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eye objects which had for him the interest... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - 1898 - 7 pages
...that Byron's knowledge of books was limited (•' Lord Byron's reading," Scott wrote of him in 1815, " did not seem to me to have been very extensive either in poetry or history"), we should attribute the notes on Ossian to a youthful writer ; for no grown man of letters could be... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 500 pages
...to have given this peculiar and, as it appeared to me, contradictory cast of mind ; but, at heart, I would have termed Byron a patrician on principle....competent share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eye objects which had for him the interest of novelty. I remember... | |
 | Angus Calder - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 202 pages
...but at heart, I would have termed Byron a patrician on principle. Lord Byron's reading did not seem to have been very extensive, either in poetry or history....competent share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eye objects which had for him the interest of novelty. I remember... | |
 | 326 pages
...to have given this peculiar and (as it appeared to me) contradictory cast of mind; but, at heart, I would have termed Byron a patrician on principle....competent share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eyes objects which had for him the interest of novelty. I remember... | |
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Lord Byron's reading did not seem to me to have been very extensive either in poetry or history. Having the advantage of him in that respect, and possessing a good competent share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his... 
