 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...boy ; " A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day ; ' t to reflow ! — Renew Tit still obscurity 'sa welcome guest If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a pixy... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 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...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 Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...boy ;" A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day ; Ч So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each...dear ? Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yît still obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a pixy... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...lad who lost his way, And like his bard, confounded night with day, So close on each pathetic point he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells,...glory,' Conceive the bard the hero of the story." Political satire castigates, nominally in the interest of virtue, but really in the interest of a party,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 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...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.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...night with d&y ; 80 close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure во sublimely telle, y frown one battlement, Demands and daunts the stranger's...Pleads haughtily for glories gone ! 192 THE GIAOUR. Wth etaoza dear? Though themea of innocence amuse Ыш best, Yet still obscurity 'sa welcome guest. If... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 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...tells. That all who view the ' idiot in his glory,* Conceire the bard the hero of the story. Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here. To turgid ode... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 768 pages
...my friend, and nuit jour books. Or surely you'll grow double/ 98 ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS. So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, Thai all who view the * idiot in his glory,* Conceive the bard the hero of the story. Shall gentle... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...habit of wishing to discover the Good and Beautiful 1n all that meets and surrounds me. — Coleridge. Though themes of innocence amuse him best, Yet still obscurity's a welcome guest. — Byron. Coleridge has undoubtedly given considerable impulse to thought in this country, and dissipated... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 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...here, To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear ? Though thevies of innocence amuse him best, Yet still obscurity's a welcome guest. If Inspiration should her... | |
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