...hostility of reviews and the ridicule of satirists. At once, he became notorious as one — " Who both hy precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose." Fortunatel}-, -with Wordsworth, as with many another, theory and practice did not go hand in hand....

...blank-verse rule, The simple ARNOLD, with his ' Asia's Light,' Who wins attention by translation-right ; And both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose, Convinced himself, by demonstration plain, There never will be such a book again, And never such a...

...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...demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose inane ; And Christmas stories, tortured into rhyme, Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thus,...

...blank-verse rule, The simple ABNOLD, with his ' Asia's Light,' Who wins attention by translation-right; And both by precept and example shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose, Convinced himself, by demonstration plain, There never will be such a book again, And never such a...

...passage is written " unjust," a concession not much sooner made than withdrawn — is dubbed an idiot, who — " Both by precept and example shows, That prose is verse, and verse is only prose ;" and Coleridge, a baby — " To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear." The lines ridiculing...

...Wordsworth, who had written a poem on " The Idiot Boy," is called the hero of his own story : — The bard, who both by precept and example, shows, That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. Whilst Jeffrey, Brougham, Moore, Scott, Southey, and the rest, are all dismissed with the general challenge...

...from poetic rule — The simple Wordsworth, framer of a lay As soft as evening in his favourite May, Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose...demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane. Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of an 'an idiot boy,' So close on each...

...htm lay kaum als übertrieben erscheint; der kritiker, der Wordsworth verspottet hatte. weil er .... both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse and verse is merely prose überbietet sogar in seinen dramen die verstösse Wordsworth's gegen poetische konvention durch den...

...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...stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the truth sublime. Thus, when he foretells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of "an idiot boy ; "...

...his f nend ' to shake off toil and trouble, And quit his books, for fear of growing double ; ' 340 and rhyine Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot...