 ... shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose ; Convincing all, by demonstration plain, 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...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 361by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 pages
...all this toil and trouble ? " Up, up my friend, and quit your books, " Or surely you'll grow double." A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like...he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, s That all who view the " idiot in his glory," Conceive the Bard the hero of the story. Shall gentle... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 74 pages
...true sublime : 130 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of " an idiot Boy" ; A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day,* Mr. \V. in his preface labours hard to prove that prose and verse are much the same, and certainly... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 pages
...true sublime : a { Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy , The idiot mother of » an idiot Boy; » A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way , And, like...tells , -That all who view the « idiot in his glory, ii Conceive the Bard the hero of the story. Shall gentle COLERIDGE pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 156 pages
...true sublime : Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy , The idiot mother of « an idiot Boy » ; A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way , And, like...in his glory » , Conceive the Bard the hero of the stôry. Shall gentle COLERIDGE pass unnotic'd here , To turgid ode , and tumid stanza dear ? Though... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...the true sublime : Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of « an idiot boy ; » A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day (4), (0 Sec, The Old Woman of Berkley, a Ballad by Mr. SocTIIEY, wherein an aged Gentlewoman is carried... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...true sublime : 1^0 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of "an idiot Boy ; " A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day,f from the Anti-jacobin to Mr. SODTHEY, on his Dactylics : " God help thee, silly one." — Poetry... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 102 pages
...true sublime : 24° Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of « an idiot Boy ;» A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like his bard, confunded night with day**, from the Anti-jacobin to Mr. SOUTHED, on his Dactilirs : a God help thee,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1822 - 106 pages
...sublime : a/fo Thus when he tells the tale of Betty. Foy, The idiot mother of «c an idiot Boy ;» A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like his bard, confunded night with day**, from the Anti-jacobin to Mr. SOUTHED, on his Dactilirs: tc God help thee,... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...The idiot mother of ' an idiot Boy ; ' A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And, like his hard, confounded night with day, So close on each pathetic...glory,* Conceive the Bard the hero of the story." COLERIDGE. " If inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a Pixy for a Muse, Yet none in lofty... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...the true sublime : 240 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Toy, The idiot mother of ' an idiot boy,' A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day ;t So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, That all who view... | |
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