 I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may, and there is no other with whom it is worth contending.  Byron - Page 126by John Nichol - 1880 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 394 pages
...not only above, but far above, all the poets of the day — every word is stamped with immortality. I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may,...there is no other with whom it is worth contending. This canto is in the style, but totally, and sustained with incredible ease and power, like the end... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 258 pages
...not only above, but far above, all the poets of the day — every word is stamped with immortality. I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may,...there is no other with whom it is worth contending. This canto is in the style, but totally, and sustained with incredible ease and power, like the end... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...not only above, but far above, all the poets of the day — every word is stamped with immortality. I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may,...there is no other with whom it is worth contending. This canto is in the style, but totally, and sustained with incredible ease and power, like the end... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...not only above, but far above, all the poets of the day — every word ¡a stumped with immortality. I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may, and there is no other with whom it U worth eonIt tiding. This canto is in the style, but totally, ind sustained with incredible case and... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 384 pages
...the poets of the age. Every word is stamped with immortality. I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, and well I may ; and there is no other with whom it is worth contending. The canto is in the style, but totally, and sustained with considerable ease and power, like the end... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 404 pages
...rival, the little confidence he possessed seemed once more to forsake him. " I despair," he writes, " of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may, and there is no other with whom it is worth contending." And again, after nine months of this close intimacy — " I do not write ; I have lived too long near... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 380 pages
...rival, the little confidence he possessed seemed once more to forsake him. " I despair," he writes, " of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may, and there is no other with whom it is worth contending." And again, after nine months of this close intimacy — " I do not write ; I have lived too long near... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 pages
...court is a very severe one, and I fear that the verdict will be, Guilty—Death" (i9th July 1821). " I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may ;...there is no other with whom it is worth contending." (9th August 1821). " How do I stand with regard to these two great objects of human pursuit [fame and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...not only above, but far above, all the poets of the day — every word is stamped with immortality. I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may,...there is no other with whom it is worth contending. This canto is in the style, but totally, and sustained with incredible ease and power, like the end... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...; for I cannot hope, with St. John, that the light came into the world and the world knew it not." "I despair of rivalling Lord Byron, as well I may,...there is no other with whom it is worth contending." To Oilier, in 1820, he wrote : " I doubt whether I shall write more. I could be content either with... | |
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