...upon him and them the hostility of reviews and the ridicule of satirists, made him notorious as one Who both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. Certain it is, however, that he did bestow infinite toil and labour upon his poetic style ; that in...

...propriety bo expressed in prose. Byron's terse couplet on Wordsworth, whom it describes as a writer " Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is only prose," has, though in a somewhat exaggerated form, made this special view better known than even...

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...warns his friend " to shake oft toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ',"+ "Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane ; And Christinas stories, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thus, when he tells...

...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...he tells the Tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of her ' idiot boy,' A moon-struck silly lad who lost his way, And like his bard, confounded night with...

...warns his friend " to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his boohs, for fear of growing double ; " * Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...into rhyme Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thm, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of " an idiot boy ; " A moon-struck, silly...

...shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ; " ^ Who, both by preeept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose ; Convineing all, by demonstration plain, Poetie souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories...

...to some extent, reflected the popular opinion, he would not have described "the simple Wordsworth," "Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose ;" nor characterized " gentle Coleridge " " To turgid ode and tnmid stanza dear." Southey comes off...

...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...prose ; Convincing all, by demonstration plain, Poetic soula delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the...

...literature; the LYRICAL Ballads by himself, SOUTHEY, and COLERIDGE are most characteristic of " The bard who, both by precept and example, shows that prose is verse, and verse is merely prose." WORDSWORTH has had little permanent influence, and no imitators worth mentioning, but has many enthusiastic...