 | Harold Nicolson - 1923 - 324 pages
...1832 he inserted, against the advice of Hallam, the following foolish and provocative epigram : — " To Christopher North " You did late review my lays,...could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher." IV The 1830 volume, and the dust raised by the groundswirl of critical controversy which it provoked,... | |
 | Jelle Postma - Parody - 1926 - 236 pages
...Poems in The Quarterly Review. In this savage attack upon the young poet the following passage occurs: "The second of the lighter pieces, and the last with...You did mingle blame and praise. Rusty Christopher. 1 "I am black-blooded like all the Tennysons. I remember all the malignant things said against me,... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - Epigrams - 1926 - 264 pages
...friends, who hear him most, advise The egotist to change his name To " Argus," with his hundred Fs. To CHRISTOPHER NORTH. You did late review my lays,...I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. ON WHEWELL'S "PLURALITY OF WORLDS," 1853. Should man, through the stars to far... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1905 - 920 pages
...first volume of verse. Familiar though the lines must be to many, they will bear repetition here. ' You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You...could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher.' This must have been dictated by somewhat the same feeling that led the Greek orator, on hearing himself... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...the seedsman, Memory, Sowed my deep-furrowed thought with many a name, Whose glory will not die. IV TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH You did late review my lays,...came, I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher j I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. (i833) THE NEW TIMON AND THE POETS WE know him,... | |
 | Andrew Franta - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 15 pages
...addressing "Christopher North" directly, in verses that would seem to obviate the need for criticism: You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You...I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. (501-2) Hallam understandably urged Tennyson not to publish these lines. In his 1835 review of Tennyson's... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 298 pages
...white ; Not any room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write. TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH. 249 TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH. You did late review my lays,...I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. NO MORE. OH sad No More ! Oh sweet No More ! Oh strange No More'. By a mossed brookbank on a stone... | |
 | 1833 - 548 pages
...such couches, soft and white ; Pint any room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write." TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH. You did late review my lays,...could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher." The severity of the last poem is really scalding ; an infant of two years old could not be more biting.... | |
 | 1887 - 590 pages
...especially stung by the critique in Blackicooil, and thus annihilated the potheen drinking editor : " You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You...could not forgive the praise. Fusty Christopher." It is a humiliating fact to all young poets who are Solomons enough to make faces baok at their critics... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1881 - 842 pages
...appear in the Poems. 1833, but have been omitted in subsequent editions. They are as follows : — " You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher ; You did mingle blame and pr.iiae, Rusty Christopher. When Ï learnt from whom it came, I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher;... | |
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TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH. You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You did mingle blame and praise, Rusty Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came, I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher ; I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. 
