 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 304 pages
...will note that his final judgment is founded upon the following proposition, quoted from Swinburne: ' The power of Byron's personality lies in the " splendid...defects; the excellence of sincerity and strength."' to read its own consciousness, etc. You will need to keep this passage in mind in reading (p. 36) that... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - English literature - 1896 - 308 pages
...proportion and decency of expression. On that earlier occasion Mr. Swinburne had written of Byron's ' splendid and imperishable excellence, which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength.' Arnold quoted the latter phrase as the best expression of Byron's real value, and probably pushed it... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - English literature - 1897 - 264 pages
...Swinburne's, the most pertinent and profound since those of Goethe, to the effect that in Byron there is a ' splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : 'the excellence of sincerity and strength.' With this ' noble praise ' our critic agreed so vigorously that it became the key-note of the latter... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 pages
...Rtiidence of Lord Byron, lSll. From a Drawing ty C. Stanfield , AKA nold agree in according to his poetry " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength" — PROFESSOR WJ ALEXANDER, PH.D. 255 15YRON S INDEPENDENCE AND INDIVIDUALITY AS A POET. The position... | |
 | John Ebenezer Bryant - 1899 - 328 pages
...Residence of Lord Byron, iBn. From a Drawing by C. Stanfield, ARA nold agree in according to his poetry " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength." — PROFESSOR WJ ALEXANDER, PH.D. 255 BYRON S INDEPENDENCE AND INDIVIDUALITY AS A POET. The position... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...deserve) the noble praise of him which I have already quoted from Mr. Swinburne ; the praise for ' the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength? True, as a man, Byron could not manage himself, could not guide his ways aright, but was all astray.... | |
 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Print Department - Engraving - 1904 - 156 pages
...that great poetry is a criticism of life, and then, in the words of Mr. Swinburne, declares Byron's "splendid and imperishable excellence, which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength" Turner's paintings show supreme truth to Nature and strength in representing her eternal forms. Such... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1905 - 354 pages
...does deserve) the noble praise of him which I have already quoted from Mr. Swinburne; the praise for ' the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength' True, as a man, Byron could not manage himself, could not guide his ways aright, but was all astray.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1906 - 376 pages
...more circumstantial, and name that in which the wonderful power of this personality consisted ? We can ; with the instinct of a poet Mr. Swinburne has...lies in ' the splendid and imperishable excellence i which covers all his offences and outweighs all his A defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength.'... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - Artists - 1908 - 306 pages
...Swinburne's, the most pertinent and profound since those of Goethe, to the effect that in Byron there is a ' splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength.' With this 'noble praise' our critic agreed so vigorously that it became the keynote of the latter part... | |
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the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength. 
