"Controversially" Quotes from Famous Books
... notice, as being, one of them,—so far as my limited scholarship will allow me to judge,—a simple and happy imitation of those laudatory inscriptions with which the Greece of other times honoured the tombs of her heroes; and the other as being the production of a pen, once engaged controversially against Byron, but not the less ready, as these affecting verses prove, to offer the homage of a manly sorrow and admiration at ... — Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore |