...his friend "to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double";3 . 240 Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...true sublime. Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty The idiot mother of "an idiot Boy"; A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard,...

...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...into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : 240 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of "an idiot Boy;" A moon-struck silly...

...exaggerated in the new doctrine, or- gave any handle to such mockery as Byron's description of the poet — Who both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. The Lyrical Ballads obtained a somewhat mixed reception, in which disfavour predominated. Southey,...

...new doctrine, or gave any handle to such mockery as Byron's description of the poet — Who both hy precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. The Lyrical Ballads obtained a somewhat mixed reception, in which disfavour predominated. Southey,...

...requisite for their production." Wordsworth might have learned from that poet's satire on himself — Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose, etc. — how much more effective it is to exaggerate the virtuous weaknesses of an enemy than to belittle...

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...though not altogether just, criticism of Wordsworth will be pertinent to the versifier—he will be one Who both by precept and example shows That prose is verse and verse is merely prose. In what is known as The Song of Moses— Deut. 32—a plenitude of imagery is employed, as we have...

...not altogether just, criticism of Wordsworth will be pertinent to the versifier — he will be one Who both by precept and example shows That prose is verse and verse Is merely prose. In what is known as The Song of Moses — Deut 3^-a plenitude of imagery is employed, "as we have seen...

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...Who warns his friend "to shake off toil and trouble; And quit his books, for fear of growing double;" is watching; and to leave those to perish temporarily,...for you, there is no such hope, and therefore no 240 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of "an idiot Boy;" A moon-struck silly...