...from poetic rule, The simple Wordsworth,—framer of a lay As sofi as evening in his favorite May ; Who warns his friend " to shake off toil and trouble...insane, And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of her " idiot boy," A moon-struck silly...

...from poetic rule, The simple Wordsworth, — framer of a lay As soft as evening in his favorite May ; Who warns his friend to ' shake off toil and trouble,...demonstration plain. Poetic souls delight in prose insane, And Christinas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thus, when he tells...

...from poetic rule, The simple Wordsworth, framer of a lay As soft as evening in his favorite May, ** Who warns his friend " to shake off toil and trouble. And quit his books, for fear of growing doable;" ft Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose;...

...passage is written " unjust," a concession not much sooner made than withdrawn — is dubbed an idiot, who — " Both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is only prose ; " and Coleridge, a baby — " To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear." The lines ridiculing...

...apostate from poetic rule, The simple Wordsworth, framer of a Jay As soft as evening in his favourite May, Who warns his friend " to shake off toil and trouble,...demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane. Ex. 17. Scan the following irregular lines, translated by Coleridge from Stolberg : TO A CATARACT....

...from poetic rule, The simple Wordsworth, framer of a lay As soft as evening in his favourite May,19 Who warns his friend ' ' to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ; " 20 Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose ; Convincing...

..." English Bards and Scotch Re- Byron's . „ , , . epigram on viewers, says of him : wordsworth. " Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose." "Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of ' an idiot boy ; ' A moon-struck, silly...

...Wordsworth : — The simple Wordsworth — framer of a lay As soft as evening in his favourite May, Who warns his friend to ' shake off toil and trouble,...prose ; Convincing all by demonstration plain, Poetic soula delight in prose insane, And Christmas stories, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the...

...upon him and them the hostility of reviews and the ridicule of satirists, made him notorious as one Who both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verso is merely prose. Certain it is, however, that he did bestow infinite toil and labour upon his...

...hostility of reviews and the ridicule of satirists. At once, he became notorious as one — " Who both hy precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose." Fortunatel}-, -with Wordsworth, as with many another, theory and practice did not go hand in hand....