 Poetic souls delight in prose insane; And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of an idiot boy...  Lord Byron's Works - Page 18by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...an idiot boy, A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And like his bard confounded night with day, So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each...his glory, Conceive the bard the hero of the story." their imperfect acquaintance with the German language. They passed the winter at Goslar ; but as they... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...idiot boy ;" A moonstruck, silly lad, who lost his way And, like his bard, confounded night with day ; And each adventure so sublimely tells, That all who...story. Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, Coleridge. To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear ? Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 pages
...of Betty Foy's troubles, a story that would have given no opening for Byron's cheap sarcasm : " Till all who view the Idiot in his glory Conceive the bard the hero of the story." And no doubt this want of humour contributed largely to that prolixity, stiffness, and heaviness of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 560 pages
...he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, /'That all who view the " idiot in his glory " I Conceive the Bard the hero of the story. Shall gentle COLERIDGE pass unnoticed here,2 To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear ? Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still Obscurity's... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...an idiot boy, A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way. And like his bard confounded night with day, So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each...his glory, Conceive the bard the hero of the story." Immediately after the publication of the " Lyrical Ballads " Wordsworth and his sister went to Germany... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...in prose insane. Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of an 'an idiot boy,' So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each...glory ' Conceive the bard the hero of the story." Coleridge was dismissed in a few lines : " Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - Historical poetry - 1902 - 470 pages
...idiot boy," A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day, So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each...his glory," Conceive the bard the hero of the story. From "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." — Lord Byron. THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR. Fort Sumter,... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 pages
...boy ; " A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day ; So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each...gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode and timid stanza dear ? Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still obscurity's a welcome guest.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 218 pages
...idiot boy," A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day; So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each...his glory," Conceive the bard the hero of the story. BYRON in "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." CHOKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON This work... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...boy; ' A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day; 250 ening lines and varying hue Such might it be — that none could truly tell — Too close inquiry his obscurity 'sa welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a pixy for a muse,... | |
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