," though it might not be
courtly
, and a strong wish is expressed that "the country had many more such honest advisers" or admonishers.—Admonishers indeed! A pretty definition of admonition this, which consists not in giving advice, but in imputing blame, not in openly proffering counsel, but in secretly pointing censure.
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(4) Byroniana No. 1 (The Courier, February 5, 1814).
The Lord
Byron
has assumed such a poetico-political and such a politico-poetical air and authority, that in our double capacity of men of letters and politicians, he forces himself upon our recollection. We say