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" I've bribed My Grandmother's .Review, — the British! " I sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thanked me duly by return of post — I'm for a handsome article his creditor; Yet if my gentle Muse he please to roast, And break a promise after having... "
Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life - Page 164
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1831
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Don Juan

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 244 pages
...receive a coral) ; Meantime, they'll doubtless please to recollect My epical pretensions to the laurel : For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish,...I've bribed my grandmother's review — the British. ccx. I sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thank'd me duly by return of post— I'm for a handsome...
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Don Juan

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 240 pages
...receive a coral); Meantime, they 'l ! doubtless please to recollect My epical pretensions to the laurel: For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish, I've bribed my grandmother's review—the British. ccx. I sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thank'd me duly by return of post—...
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Don Juan. Cantos i. to v. [by lord Byron].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...receive a coral ;) Meantime, they'll doubtless please to recollect My epical pretensions to the laurel ; For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish,...I've bribed my grandmother's review— -the British. OCX. I sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thank'd me duly by return of post — I'm for a handsome...
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The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus ...

John Bull - 1825 - 782 pages
...receive a coral) ; Meantime, they'll doubtless please to recollect My epical pretensions to the laurel : For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish,...British. I sent it in a letter to the editor. Who thauk'd me duly by return of post— I'm for a handsome article his creditor ; Yet if my gentle Muse...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...Meantime, they'll doubtless please to recollect My epical pretensions to the laurel: For fear gome prudish readers should grow skittish, I've bribed my grandmother's review— the British. I lent it in a letter to the editor, Who thank'd me duly by return of post — I'm for a handsome article...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 12

1829 - 558 pages
...same spirit in which he wrote much of his badinage in Don Juan : such for instance as the passage : ' I've bribed my grandmother's review, the British. I sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thanked me duly by return of post : I'm for a handsome article his creditor, &c." The editor took this...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 528 pages
...can act or wrile at all Answer by post, as usual. " Your«. "PS If I had had lime, and been quieter to you. " About Allcgra. I 've bribed My Grandmother's Review,— the British ! * I sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thanlL'd...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 532 pages
...can act or write at all. Answer by post, as usual. " Yours. "PS If I had had time, and been quieter and nearer, I would have cut him to hash ; but as...For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish, I 've bribed My Grandmother's Review,— the British ! " I sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thank'd...
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The works of Thomas Moore, Volume 16

Thomas Moore - 1832 - 512 pages
...or write at all. Answer by post, as usual. « Yours. « PS — If I had had time, and been quieter and nearer, I would have cut him to hash ; but as...For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish, I 've bribed My Grandmother's Review, — the British ! l sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thank'd...
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Letters & Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 658 pages
...act or write at all. Answer ' by post, as usual. ' Yours. ' PS If I had had time, and been quieter and ' nearer, I would have cut him to hash ; but as...Canto of Don Juan appeared the following passage. O ' For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish, ' I've bribed My Grandmother's Review,—the...
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