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" to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books for fear of growing double;»i 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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English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 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 - 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 - 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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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 4

1822 - 666 pages
...epithet of f imple, to " The limpie Wordsworth, Tramer of a lay As soft as ev'ning in his fav'rite May, Who both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose," he will find an host of " incurables," and had need found an hospital for them. It will be a great...
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