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...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...

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...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....

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...