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• His comments on Byron's Darkness suggest that if he had read more than he did of Shelley and others among his younger contemporaries he might have found much to reprehend, but he held that "we must not limit poetical merit to the class of composition which exactly suits one's own particular taste. —  Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature
• As men of landed estates, I had no fault to find with their conduct, though much to reprehend, and much to wish changed, in many of the old tenures. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
• We must not omit to reprehend, as utterly useless, the vile practice of making an astounding noise, with tin pans and kettles, when the bees are swarming. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829
• And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and wondering at his answer, they held their peace 20:27. —  The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
• There is, to be sure, in Sheridan, something to reprehend, and every thing to laugh at; but, Sir, he is not a bad man. —  Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

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