 idiot in his glory' Conceive the bard the hero of the story. Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear? Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid...  The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, - Page 240by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1834Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 pages
...Fairies. Page 42 , we have , « Lines to a young Lady , » and page 5a , « Lines to a Young Ass. » Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass. How well the subject suits his noble mind ! « K fellow feeling makes us wond'rous... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...obscurity's a welcome guest. If inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a Pixy for a Muse (p), Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass. How well the subject suits his noble mind! « A fellow feeling makes us wond'rous kind.... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...Obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse, To him who takes a Pixy for a Muse,f Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to eulogize an ass. * Lyrical Ballads, page 4. ' The tables turned." Stanza 1. ' Upi up, toy friend, and... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...Obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse, To him who takes a Pixy for a Muse.t Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to enlogize an ass. * Lyrical Ballad?, page 4. • The tables turned.' Stanza 1, ' Up, sp, my friend,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a pixy for a musef, Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass. So well the subject suits his noble mind, He brays, the laureat of the long-ear'd kind... | |
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a Pixy for a muse,t Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass. " Lyrical Rallads, page 4 — u The tables turned." Stanza 1. " Up, up, my friend,... | |
 | William Brockedon - Greece - 1834 - 380 pages
...turgid ode and tumid stanza dear ? Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still, obscurity ! a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse...soars to elegise an ass. So well the subject suits his lofty mind, He brays the laureat of the long-ear'd kind." English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. " Unjust"... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 pages
...turgid ode and tumid stanza dear? Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse...mind, He brays,(2) the laureat of the long-ear 'd kind.(-H) Oh ! wonder-working Lewis (4) ! monk, or bard, Who fain wouldst make Parnassus a church-yard... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 336 pages
...thus to Betty's questions he Made answer, like a traveller bold. The cock did crow, to-whoo, to-whoo, Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who...ass. So well the subject suits his noble mind, He brays,1 the laureat of the long-ear'd kind. 2 Oh ! wonder-working Lewis ! 3 monk, or bard, Who fain... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a pixy for a muse, (4) Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass. So well the subject suits his noble mind, He brays, (5) the lauréat of the long-ear'd... | |
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