 This was the man, quaint, capricious, and playful, with all his immense genius. He wrote from impulse, never from effort; and therefore I have always reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine poetical geniuses of my time, and half a century before me....  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Page 311by John Gibson Lockhart - 1862Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...time, feels respect for the courage and force of their enemy. BURNS AND BYRON. Byron wrote from inpulse never from effort ; and therefore I have always reckoned...evergushing and perennial fountain of natural waters. i. 3 SPEAKING OF THE DEAD. All primitive people speak of their dead, and I think virtuously and wisely.... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1866 - 614 pages
...Thus he knew no man (1820) "more to be venerated" than Wordsworth for "loftiness of genius:" again, he "always reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine...geniuses of my time, and half a century before me :" (1826^ : — an opinion founded on that predominance of the impulsive character in them, which was... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...Thus he knew no man (1820) "more to be venerated" than Wordsworth for "loftiness of genius:" again, he "always reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine...geniuses of my time, and half a century before me :" (1826): — an opinion founded on that predominance of the impulsive character in them, which was... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...he knew no man (1820) " more to be venerated " than Wordsworth for "loftiness of genius:" again, he "always reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine...geniuses of my time, and half a century before me :" (1826) :— in opinion founded on that predominance of the impulsive character in them, which was... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 pages
...Thus he knew no man (1820) "more to be venerated" than Wordsworth for "loftiness of genius:" again, he "always reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine...geniuses of my time, and half a century before me :" (1826):—an opinion founded on that predominance of the impulsive character in them, which was... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Authors, Scottish - 1871 - 118 pages
...he knew no man (1820) " more to be venerated" than Wordsworth for "loftiness of genius:" again, he "always reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine...geniuses of my time, and half a century before me " (1826) : — an opinion founded on that predominance of the impulsive character in them which was... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...playing the fox and the grapes, you must be at the top. Moore told me some delightful stories of him. He wrote from impulse, never from effort ; and therefore...the most genuine poetical geniuses of my time, and half-acentury before me. We have many men of high poetical talent, but none, I think, of that ever-gushing... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...ever reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine poetical geniuses of modern time. Half a century before we have many men of high poetical talent, but none, I think, of that ever gushing and perennial fountain of natural waters. — Sir WALTEE SCOTT. Tall. High-spirited, courageous.... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pages
...we were both good-natured fellows, not caring to maintain our dignity, enjoying the mot-pour-rire. He wrote from impulse, never from effort, and therefore...have always reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine poetic geniuses of my time, and of half a century before me. We have many men of high poetic talents,... | |
 | John Nichol - Poets, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...we were both good-natured fellows, not caring to maintain our dignity, enjoying the mot-pour-rire. He wrote from impulse never from effort, and therefore...have always reckoned Burns and Byron the most genuine poetic geniuses of my time, and of half a century before me. We have many men of high poetic talents,... | |
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