 Are good manure for their more bare biography, Wordsworth's last quarto, by the way, is bigger Than any since the birthday of typography; A drowsy frowzy poem, called the 'Excursion,' Writ in a manner which is my aversion.  The Dublin University Magazine - Page 1621833Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...Wordsworth's last quarto, by the way, is bigger Than any since the birth-day of typography ; A clumsy, frowzy poem, called the " Excursion," Writ in a manner which is my aversion." The unlucky laureate is also darkly shadowed forth in the character of a Greek poet, who filled that... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pages
...crowd is concerned, and reason, and a good reputation, for a length of time, contend against it in vain. Byron, half in fun, and half in spleen, mocked...occasionally seems too homely for the grand Miltonic cast of thought, and versification, in which Wordsworth tells the story ; but in this very " Excursion"... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...reviews, and annihilated by Lord Byron, as, for instance, in those well-known lines — " A drowsy, frowsy poem, called the Excursion, Writ in a manner which is my aversion ;" and that he was guilty of a vast mass of other verses, all exceedingly Innocent, and at the same... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson - Authors - 1869 - 536 pages
...violations of decorum and morality one is used to. I felt no resentment at the lines, " A drowsy, frowzy poem called ' The Excursion,' Writ in a manner which is my aversion," * nor at the affected contempt throughout towards Wordsworth. There are powerful descriptions, and... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - Bible - 1870 - 860 pages
...reviews, and annihilated by Lord Byron, as, for instance, in those well-known lines : A drowsy, frowsy poem, called the Excursion, Writ in a manner which is my aversion ; nnd that he was guilty of a vast mass of other verses, all exceeding innocent, and at the same time... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - Criticism - 1876 - 368 pages
...and annihilated by Lord Byron, as, for instance, in those well-known lines : — "A drowsy, frowsy poem, called the Excursion, Writ in a manner which is my aversion ;" and that he was guilty of a vast mass of other verses, all exceedingly innocent, and at the same... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...might, says Southey, have talked as well of crushing Skiddaw) by quoting the two lines, A drowsy, frowsy poem, called the Excursion, Writ in a manner which is my aversion, which was Byron's way of characterising that famous poem which Coleridge, with enthusiasm, called An... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...might, says Southey, have talked as well of crushSkiddaw) by quoting the two lines : A drowsy, frowsy poem, called the Excursion, ^ Writ in a manner which is my aversion, An Orphic song, indeed, A song divine of high and passionate thoughts, To their own music chanted.... | |
 | 1890 - 608 pages
...Examiners. 1. Comment on the effects of the French Revolution on English Literature. 2. " A. drowsy, frowsy poem called the Excursion, " Writ in a manner which is my aversion." (Byron.) .' . Are you on Byron's side, or Wordsworth's? Why? 8. To what extent are The Idylls of the... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 pages
...Wordsworth in his 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,' written in 1808, describes it as ' A drowsy, frowzy poem, called The Excursion, Writ in a manner which is my aversion. ' This truly great philosophical poem, which was commenced at Racedown in 1795, was completed at Grasmere,... | |
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