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...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...

...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...

...his friend « to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books- for fear of growing double (3) ; » Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...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 ; » A moon-struck...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,Convincing all by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane; And Christmas stories...