...Mr. SOUTHEV, wherein an aged gentlewoman is carried away by Beelzebub, on a " high trotting horse." Who warns his friend " to shake off toil and trouble,...souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : 340 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty...

...from poetic rule, 120 The simple WORDSWORTH, framer of a lay As soft as erening in his favourite May, Who warns his friend " to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books for fear of growing double ;" + * The last line, " God help thee," is an evident plagi* arism from the Anti-jacobin to Mr. SOUTHEY,...

...warns his friend "to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books for fear of growing double*; 0 Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : 240 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty...

...shake off• toil and trouhle, And quit his hooks for fear of growing douhle ;•'$ Who hoth hy preeept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose, Convineing all hy demonstration plain, Poetie souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories...

...from poetic rule, 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,...merely prose , Convincing all by demonstration plain , * See , The Old Women of Berkley , a Ballad by Mr. SOXJTHEY wherein an aged Gentlewoman is carried...

...apostate from poetic rule, 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, And quit his books for fear of growing double :^ * We beg Mr. Southey's pardon: "Madoc disdains the degraded title of Epic." See his preface. Why...

...apostate from poetic rule, 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, And quit his books- for fear of growing double (3) ; » Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose, Convincing...

...from poetic rule, 280 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...souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : 1^0 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty...

...from poetic rule, 280 The simple WORDSWOUTH, framer of a lay As soft as evening in his favourite May 5 Who warns his friend «to shake off toil and trouble,...example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose,Convincing all by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane; And Christmas stories...

...comes the dull disciple of thy school, That mild apostate from poetic rule, The simple WORDSWORTH,' ' Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane.' ' Shall gentle COLERIDGE pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode, and tumid stanza dear ?' ' — None in...