Who warns his friend to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double; Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose... Lord Byron's Works - Seite 17von George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 Seiten
...his friend " to shake off toil and trouble. And quit his books, for fear of growing double ;" (2 } Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane; Aud Christmas stones, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thus, when he tells... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 Seiten
...Wbo. both by precept and example, shows Tbat pro*e is verse, and Terse is merely prose; Cotmncinc aü, by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose...insane; And Christmas stories, tortured into rhyme, Certain the essence of the true sublime, ïbos, when be tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 Seiten
...his friend " to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ;" (1 ) de o'erarching gate Survey M the dwelling of souJs delight in prose insane ; ^ And Christmas stories, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 380 Seiten
...prose insane ; And Christmas stories, tortur'd into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true suhlime. Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of " an idiot hoy," A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his hard, confounded night with day ;J... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 Seiten
...warns his friend " to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ; " * bloom or blight of all men's happiness (For Glory's pillow is but restless if Lo proec ; Convincing all, by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 648 Seiten
...friend " to shake off' toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ; "|| AVho, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse,...tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of "an idiot boy ;" * We beg Mr. Somhey's pardon : " Madoc disdains the degrading title of epic.'' See his preface.... | |
| 1845 - 452 Seiten
...Byron, in the first edition of his " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," ridiculed Wordsworth as one " Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose;" but in the notes, he wrote against this criticism the word " unjust." Many, who do not understand Wordsworth,... | |
| 1845 - 460 Seiten
...Byron, in the first edition of his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," ridiculed Wordsworth as one " Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose ; " but in the notes, he wrote against this criticism the word " unjust." Many, who do not understand... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 Seiten
...May, (1) Who warns his friend to "shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of crowing double ;" (3, Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose j Convincing all, by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane; And Christmas stories,... | |
| John Keese, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1849 - 350 Seiten
...Ridiculed by Byron as a "dull disciple" of the school of Southey, as a "mild apostate from poetic rule," " Who both by precept and example shows, That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose," he has outlived the man and his satire, and holds an honorable place among the conscript fathers of... | |
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