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" to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books for fear of growing double;ģi Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose... "
The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical notice by J. W. Lake - Page 238
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825
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The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a ..., Volume 1

Arthur Hugh Clough - Prose poems, English - 1869 - 448 pages
...upon him and them the hostility of reviews and the ridicule of satirists, made him notorious as one Who both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. Certain it is, however, that he did bestow infinite toil and labour upon his poetic style ; that in...
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Essays: Historical and Biographical, Political and Social, Literary and ...

Hugh Miller - History - 1869 - 602 pages
...propriety bo expressed in prose. Byron's terse couplet on Wordsworth, whom it describes as a writer " Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is only prose," has, though in a somewhat exaggerated form, made this special view better known than even...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Original Editions, with ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 768 pages
...growing douWho, both by precept and example, sbous That prose is verse, and verse is merely proĢ1 ; Hetty Foy, The idiot mother of ' an idiot boy ; * Л moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And,...
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Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...warns his friend " to shake oft toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ',"+ "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...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 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...he tells the Tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of her ' idiot boy,' A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And like his bard, confounded night with...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1873 - 898 pages
...warns his friend " to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his boohs, for fear of growing double ; " * Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...into rhyme Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thm, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of " an idiot boy ; " A moon-struck, silly...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Volume 3, Part 1

George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 1873 - 380 pages
...shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ; " ^ Who, both by preeept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose ; Convineing all, by demonstration plain, Poetie souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories...
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The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society ..., Volume 8

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 810 pages
...to some extent, reflected the popular opinion, he would not have described "the simple Wordsworth," "Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose ;" nor characterized " gentle Coleridge " " To turgid ode and tnmid stanza dear." Southey comes off...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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...prose ; Convincing all, by demonstration plain, Poetic soula delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the...
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Chronological guide to English literature

E. Nicholson - English literature - 1878 - 234 pages
...literature; the LYRICAL Ballads by himself, SOUTHEY, and COLERIDGE are most characteristic of " The bard who, both by precept and example, shows that prose is verse, and verse is merely prose." WORDSWORTH has had little permanent influence, and no imitators worth mentioning, but has many enthusiastic...
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