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 - Página 17de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1882 - 568 páginas
...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...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... | |
| 1883 - 778 páginas
...passage is written " unjust," a concession not much sooner made than withdrawn — is dubbed an idiot, who — " Both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is only prose ; " and Coleridge, a baby — " To turgid ode and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... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1885 - 620 páginas
...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...true sublime. Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Poy, The idiot mother of 'an idiot boy,' — A moonstruck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 670 páginas
...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...the true sublime. Thus, when he tells the Tale of Hetty Foy, The idiot mother of her ' idiot boy,' A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 páginas
...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...demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane. Ex. 17. Scan the following irregular lines, translated by Coleridge from Stolberg : TO A CATARACT.... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1886 - 230 páginas
..." 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... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1888 - 666 páginas
...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...prose ; Convincing all by demonstration plain, Poetic soula delight in prose insane, And Christmas stories, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1888 - 440 páginas
...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... | |
| Sir William Symington M'Cormick - 1889 - 196 páginas
...poet meant this poem to be pathetic. The subject of our pathos is, not its hero, but its author.1 i " Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of '.an idiot boy ; ' Wordsworth writes that Burns' light, " breaking forth as nature's own " — " Showed my youth How... | |
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