 Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of 'an idiot boy'; A moon-struck, silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day; So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells,...  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 4271833Full view - About this book
 | Charles James Sawyer, Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton - Best books - 1927 - 440 pages
...justify Byron's : " So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, That all who view the ' idiot in his glory ' Conceive the Bard the hero of the story." 1 LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS. BRISTOL: BT >ICOS AND COTT11, fO» T. If. LONOMlN, >ATI«NO*Tm-ROW,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...confounded night with day; So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, That all who view the " idiot in his glory " Conceive the bard the hero of the story. Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear ? Though themes of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...confounded night with day;' So close on each pathetic part he dwells, And each adventure so sublimely tells, That all who view the 'idiot in his glory' Conceive the bard the hero of the story. 255 Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear? Though themes... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 296 pages
...confounded night with day. So close on each pathetic part he dwells. And each adventure so suhlimely tells. That all who view the "idiot in his glory"; Conceive the Bard the hero of his story.96 Shelley made a more suhtle analysis in Peter Bell the Third when he declared that Peter... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - Language and languages - 1914 - 620 pages
...prose; Convincing all, by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane." ***** ". . . all who view the 'idiot in his glory,' Conceive the Bard the hero of the story." ***** 10 Nichol Smith: Jeffrey's Literary Criticism, p. 107 n. "Wordsworth's last quarto, by the way,... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 768 pages
...As soft as evening in his favorite May." And again, speaking of " Betty Foy" — "That all who knew the 'idiot in his glory,' Conceive the bard the hero of the story." And yet to no other English poet — with, perhaps, the exception of Young — was Byron as much indebted... | |
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