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" Who 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 is verse, and verse is merely prose... "
Lord Byron's Works - Page 17
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821
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English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 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...into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : 340 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of " an idiot Boy ;" Lyrical Ballads,...
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English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 74 pages
...Lyrical Ballads, page 4. " The tables turned." Stanza 1. " Up, up my friend, and clear your looks, Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...souls delight in prose insane; And Christmas stories tortur'd into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : 130 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty...
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English bards, and Scotch reviewers; a satire

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1810 - 106 pages
...a$4 verse: is merely prose Convincing all by dej^ngji'ajtion pJfiUjy Poetic pQuls delight, in pypse, insane ;, And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the true subli me : 240 Thus when he tells th# faje gf, Bet^y The idiot mother of " an idiot Boy ; * Lyrical...
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English bards and Scotch reviewers; a satire. To which is added, An ode to ...

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1814 - 88 pages
...shake off• toil and trouhle, And quit his hooks for fear of growing douhle ;•'$ Who hoth hy preeept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose, Convineing all hy demonstration plain, Poetie souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories...
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English bards, and Scotch reviewers: a satire

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 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...merely prose , Convincing all by demonstration plain , * See , The Old Women of Berkley , a Ballad by Mr. SOXJTHEY wherein an aged Gentlewoman is carried...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 260 pages
...Lyrical Ballads, page 4-" The Tables Turned." Stanza 1. " Up, up, my friend, and clear your looks, (Vlio, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse,...souls delight in prose insane; And Christmas stories tortur'd into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime: Thus when he tells the tale of Betty...
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Les počtes anglais et les auteurs de L'Edinburg review: satire traduite de l ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 156 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...souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories tortur'd iuto rhyme , Contain the essence of the true sublime : Thus when he tells the tale of Betty...
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The works of lord Byron, comprehending the suppressed poems, Volumes 1-2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 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...into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime : 1^0 Thus when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of "an idiot Boy ; " A moon-struck...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 1

1820 - 558 pages
...comes the dull disciple of thy school, That mild apostate from poetic rule, The simple WORDSWORTH,' ' Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane.' ' Shall gentle COLERIDGE pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode, and tumid stanza dear ?' ' — None in...
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English bards and Scoth [sic] reviewers; a satire

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 102 pages
...warns his friend « to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books for fear of growing double* 5 » 'Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose j Convincing all by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane; And Christmas stories...
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