 ... Though in imputing to himself premeditated plagiarism, he was, of course, but jesting, it was, I am inclined to think, his practice, when engaged in the composition of any work, to excite thus his vein by the perusal of others, on the same subject...  Letters and journals of lord Byron: with notices of his life, by T. Moore ... - Page 265by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831Full view - About this book
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...' the perusal of others on the same subject or plan, from which the ' slightest hint caught by his imagination, as he read, was sufficient ' to kindle...and of which he himself soon forgot the ' source.' (VoL iv.) « them before we had the opportunity. The complaint is one in which an author must look... | |
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...vein by the perusal of others on the same subject or plan, from which the slightest hint caught by his imagination, as he read, was sufficient to kindle...attention to its pages, as not unlikely to supply him with fresh argument and sarcasm for those depreciating views of human nature and its destiny, which he was... | |
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...vein by the perusal of others on the same subject or plan, from which the slightest hint caught by his imagination, as he read, was sufficient to kindle...he sought was of no very elevating nature, — the anliipiritual doctrines of the Sophist in this Romance* being what chiefly, I suspect, attracted his... | |
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 | 1831 - 444 pages
...subject or plan, from which the slightest hint caught by his imagination, as he read, was snlririent to kindle there such a train of thought as, but for that spark, hud never- been awakened, and of which he himself soon forgqt, the source. In the present instance,... | |
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 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 512 pages
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...by the perusal of others, on the same subject or plan, from which the slightest hint caught by his imagination, as he read, was sufficient to kindle...attention to its pages, as not unlikely to supply him with fresh argument and sarcasm for those depreciating views of human nature and its destiny, which he was... | |
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