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" 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 17
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...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,...
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English Poetry (1170-1892).

John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 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...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...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1908 - 636 pages
...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,...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1908 - 634 pages
...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,...
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Shelburne Essays: Shelburne essays

Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1910 - 322 pages
...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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Calendar, Part 3

University of Calcutta - 1914 - 822 pages
...warns his friend ' to shake off toil and trouble. And quit his books for fear ot growing doable ' ; Who. both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. ,(&) 'Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men, companionless As the last...
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The Literary Primacy of the Bible

George Peck Eckman - Bible as literature - 1915 - 220 pages
...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...
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The Literary Primacy of the Bible

George Peck Eckman - Bible as literature - 1915 - 220 pages
...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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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892).

English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...warns his friend "to shake off toil and trouble ; And quit his books, for fear of growing double;" jhjijH - : 240 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of "an idiot Boy;" A moon-struck silly...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...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...
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