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English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 85 pages
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Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1798 - 240 pages
...old grey stone, " And dream my time away,"1 THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT. Up ! up ! my friend, and clear your looks, Why all...toil and trouble ? Up ! up ! my friend, and quit your bonks, Or surely you'll grow double. The sun above the mountain's head, A freshening lustre mellow....
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English bards, and Scotch reviewers: a satire

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 pages
...the Anti-jacobin, page 25. J Lyrical Ballads, page 4- — «• The tables turned. » Stanza I. « Up , up my friend, and clear your looks, <• Why all this toil and trouble ? « TJp, up my friend, and quit your books. ( Or surely you'll grow double. » Poetic souls delight...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 260 pages
...Mr. Southey, on his Dactylics: " God help thee, silly one."—Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, page 33. § 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, and verse is merely prose, Convincing...
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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire. Ode to the Land of the Gaul ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1822 - 106 pages
...one.s—Poetry of the Anti-jacobin, page 23. * Lyrical Ballads, page 4.—x The tables turned. » Stanza I, « Up, up, my friend, and clear your looks, « Why all this toil and trouble? " Up, np, my friend, and quit your books, (^ Or surely you'll grow double. » So close on each pathetic part...
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Hints for Oxford [by J. Campbell].

John Campbell (M.A., Oxon.) - 1823 - 90 pages
...have the effect of rousing the drones of our learned hive. CHAP. IV. ©n StuOics & licatJing Cor tlje Up, up, my friend, and clear your looks, Why all this toil and trouble? Up, up, my friend, and leave your books, Or surely you'll grow double. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads. A LITTLE learning, it...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 92

English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...feet long, and two feet vide ! Lyrical Ballads. In the same spirit is the following warning advice : Up, up, my friend, and clear your looks. Why all this toil and trouble ? Up, up, my friend, and leave your books, Or surely you'll grow double. In another passage, the same author gives ,us, on the...
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The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron, Volume 2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 340 pages
...eulogize an ass. How well the suhject suits his nohle mind! "A fellow-feeling makes us wond'rous kind." ** Up, up, my friend, and clear your looks, Why all this toil and trouhle? Up, up, my friend, and quit your hooks, Or surely you'll grow double." * Mr. W. in his Preface...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron

George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...who soars to enlogize an ass. * Lyrical Ballad?, page 4. • The tables turned.' Stanza 1, ' Up, sp, my friend, and clear your looks. Why all this toil...trouble ? Up, up, my friend, and quit your books, O» surely you '11 grow double.' t Mr. W. in his preface labours hard to prove that prose and verse...
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The British Satirist: Comprising the Best Satires of the Most Celebrated ...

Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass. " Lyrical Rallads, page 4 — u The tables turned." Stanza 1. " Up, up, my friend,...looks, " Why all this toil and trouble ) "Up, " Up, up, my friend, and quit your books, "Or surely you'll grow double " Mr. W. in his preface labours hard...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 350 pages
...Roderick, " the first poem of our time." — E.] (1) [" Unjust" — B. 1816.] (2) Lyrical Ballads, p. 4. — "The Tables Turned." Stanza 1. " Up, up, my...and clear your looks ; Why all this toil and trouble f Up, up, my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you'll grow double. (3) Mr. W. in his preface labours...
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