 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
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 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...all who view the "idiot in his glory," Conceive the Basd the hero of the story. Shall gentle COLEHIDGE pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode, and tumid stanza... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 350 pages
...;" A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day ; (3) So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, beautiful." Elsewhere, and later, Lord B. pronounces Southey's Don Roderick, " the first poem of our... | |
 | William Brockedon - Greece - 1834 - 380 pages
...occasion the Pantheon will be brilliantly illuminated." ST COLERIDGE, ESQ. From a Drav.'ing by Wivelt. " Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid...Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still, obscurity ! a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a Pixy* for a muse,... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1834 - 518 pages
...subject, compared with the author's career, may suggest to some of our readers Byron's unlucky lines, — "That all who view the idiot in his glory, Conceive the bard the hero of the story." The last act of the magnetic drama was the obtaining from the Academic lioyale de Medecine a committee... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 pages
...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 adventure so sublimely tells, beautiful" Elsewhere, and later, Lord B. pronounces Southey's Don Roderick, " the first poem of our... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 336 pages
...boy ;" A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day ; 2 So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each...Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still obscurity 'sa welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a pixy for a muse,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...mcoa- struck, «illy lad, who lost his way, Aad, like his bard, confounded night with day; (3) So d«e on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, That all who riew the "idiot in his glory" Совеете the bard the hero of the storv. Sail gende Coleridge pass... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...moon-struck silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day; i • So doee uded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now, And but for (hat chill changeless brow. W u idiot in his glory" Conceive the bard the hero of the story. Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 380 pages
...hoy," A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his hard, confounded night with day ;J So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so suhlimely tells, * The last line, " God help thee," is an evident plagiarism from the Anti-jacohin... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...boy ; " A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day ; ' ions : all obscurity 'sa welcome guest If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a pixy for a muse,... | |
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