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" I have sent a stone from my sling which has smitten their Goliath in the forehead. I have fastened his name upon the gibbet, for reproach and ignominy, as long as it shall endure. — Take it down who can ! " One word of advice to Lord Byron before: I... "
The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26 - Page 218
1824
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The Bookman, Volume 14

1902 - 734 pages
...continually divided between compassion and amusement. "One word of advice to Lord Byron," he says, "before I conclude. When he attacks me again, let it be in rhyme." And Byron has The Vision of Judgment up his sleeve at the very time ! Mr. Prothero remarks upon the...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 13

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 694 pages
...name upon the gibbet for reproach and ignominy, as long as it shall endure. Take it down who can I " One word of advice to Lord Byron before I conclude....great advantage that his temper should be obliged to heep tune. "And while he may still indulge in the same rankness and violence of insult, the metre will,...
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Poetry, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 628 pages
...one sentence too many. Before he concluded he had given " one word of advice to Lord Byron * — " When he attacks me again, let it be in rhyme. For...advantage that his temper should be obliged to keep tune." Byron had anticipated this advice, and had already attacked the laureate in rhyme, scornfully and satirically,...
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Works: A New, Rev. and Enl. Ed., with Illus, Volume 13

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 644 pages
...has smitten their Goliath in the forehead. I have fastened his name upon the gibbet for reproach and ignominy, as long as it shall endure. Take it down who can I " One word of advice to Lord Byron before I conclude. When he attacks me again let it be in rhyme....
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Works, Volume 4

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 632 pages
...just one sentence too many. Before he concluded he had given " one word of advice to Lord Byron "— " When he attacks me again, let it be in rhyme. For...great advantage that his temper should be obliged to heep tune." The Vision of Judgment, begun May 7 (but probably laid aside till September n), was forwarded...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 634 pages
...one sentence too many. Before he concluded he had given " one word of advice to Lord Byron " — " When he attacks me again, let it be in rhyme. For one who has so little command of himself, it w1ll be a great advantage that his temper should be obliged to keep tune." Byron had anticipated this...
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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature ...

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...has smitten their Goliath in the forehead. I have fastened his name upon the gibbet, for reproach and ignominy, as long as it shall endure. — Take it down who can!" Thus wrote the retained and salaried scribbler, who, as Byron says, had lied himself into the post...
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The Romantic Movement in English Poetry

Arthur Symons - 1909 - 372 pages
...sedition and slander.' And he affirmed: 'I have fastened his name upon the gibbet, for reproach and ignominy, as long as it shall endure. Take it down who can ! ' Well, the name of Byron has long since been taken down from that forgotten gibbet, and all that...
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The Romantic Movement in English Poetry

Arthur Symons - 1909 - 362 pages
...sedition and slander.' And he affirmed: 'I have fastened his name upon the gibbet, for reproach and ignominy, as long as it shall endure. Take it down who can ! ' Well, the name of Byron has long since been taken down from that forgotten gibbet, and all that...
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Samuel Rogers and His Circle

Richard Ellis Roberts - 1910 - 356 pages
...fearful words of his about 12 Byron : " I have fastened his name upon the gibbet, for reproach and ignominy, as long as it shall endure. Take it down who can ! " What an impotent aping of omnipotence is here. No wonder Byron said in his Vision of Judgment that...
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