 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 - Page 17by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...epithet of f imple, to " The limpie Wordsworth, Tramer of a lay As soft as ev'ning in his fav'rite May, Who both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose," he will find an host of " incurables," and had need found an hospital for them. It will be a great... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1822 - 106 pages
...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,Convincing all by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane; And Christmas stories... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ;** Who, both by precept and example, shews That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose", Convincing...into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : 240 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Toy, The idiot mother of ' an idiot boy,' A moon-struck,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 340 pages
...ol the AntHacohin. page 33. J I.yrical Ballads, page *-" The Tablet Turned." Stanza i. Who, hoth hy precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose: Convincing all hy demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories tortured into... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...warns his friend 'To shake off toil and trouble, AV& quit nis bpoks for fear of growing doable ;'* Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane ; And Christinas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the true sublime: Thus when he tells... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...books, for fear of growing double;" Who. both by precept and 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, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : Thus when he tells... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...for fear of growing double;" Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse,and verge ke, Yet has a sentimental kind of air Which might go far , but she don't dance •with vigour; The Christmas-stories, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime: Thus when he tells... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...friend ' To shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books for fear of growing double;'* Who, bolh by precept and example, shows That prose is verse,...demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose msane ; And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the true sublime : Thus when... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...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...of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of "an idiot boy;" » See " The Old Woman of Berkley," a ballad, by Mr. Southey, wherein an aged gentlewoman is carried... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...shake off toil and trouble. And quit his books for fear of growing double ;"Ц Who both by piecept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse...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,... | |
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