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Southey

NOUN
  1. English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843)

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  • 515_; Hazlitt on, _iv. 518_; the result of pantisocracy, _iv. 521_; on Southey's The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry
  • Southey reviewed his work glowingly; Wordsworth paid tribute to it; Clare modelled his verse upon it. Introduction: Tim Fulford
  • The torrent of knocks roared louder, slightly failed upon the ear, made a crescendo, emulated Niagara, surpassed that very American effort of nature, wavered, faltered to Lodore, died away to a feeble tittup like water dropping from a tap to flagstones, rose again in a final spurt that would have made Southey open his dictionary for adjectives, and drained away to death. The Prophet of Berkeley Square
  • And a little earlier than this, when meditating his pantisocracy scheme with Southey and Lovell, he had addressed the dead poet in his indignant A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • The Kafir's fall created delay sufficient for the foremost of the Guides, Southey, to approach within gunshot. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • It was written with newspapers before me," Southey recalled, "as fast as newspaper could be put into blank verse" (LR 1. 3n), and Woodring offers that "Few belletristic works signed by major writers can ever have come hotter from the chronicled events" (195). Introduction
  • Lieut. Balfour, 72nd Regiment, pursued him into the bush, the former keeping up, the latter down the stream, when Southey was suddenly startled by an assagai striking the stone or cliff on which he was climbing. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • He boasted of having carried the colours of the 20th regiment, that bore the brunt of the day there, and mainly contributed to obtain a "glorious victory," as Southey, in his days of uncourtliness, called that of Blenheim. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829
  • But even as Madoc's destruction of the Aztec temples marks an end to acquisitive empire, Southey's aim of rationality and sobriety is compromised by the poem's own explicitly exoticist allure. [ The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
  • On the subject of global distribution systems, Southey shared some compelling statistics that indicate that the ASPAC region was among the worst impacted -- down by approximately 40%.
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