 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...is the style of prose ? He will not suppose me capable of having in my mind such verses, as " I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the Strand ; And there I met another man, Whose hat was in his hand." * WTo such specimens it would indeed be a fair and full reply, that these... | |
 | John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - 1866 - 508 pages
...easily as ever Dr. Johnson did with his quizzifications of the Percy Reliques — "I put my hat upon ray head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man With hie hat in his hand." North. Probatum est. And yours is the nobler metre, too — the true English... | |
 | 1863 - 276 pages
...worthlefs, and to prove that fuch rhymes could be produced without any effort, he began : — " I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And...there I met another man, Whofe hat was in his hand." And fo he went on extemporizing nonfenfe verfes for feveral ftanzas, to mow how eafy it was. Of courfe... | |
 | John Wilson - 1863 - 514 pages
...this rate as easily as ever Dr. Johnson did with his quizzifioatious of the Percy Reliques — "I put my hat upon my head. And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man With his hat in his hand." North. Probatum est. And yours is the nobler metre, too — the true English... | |
 | Robert Henry Martley, Richard Denny Urlin - 1863 - 304 pages
...worthlefs, and to prove that fuch rhymes could be produced without any effort, he began : — " I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there 1 met another man, Whofe hat was in his hand." And fo he went on extemporizing nonfenfe verfes for... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...is the style of prose ? He will not suppose me capable of having in my mind such verses, as " I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the Strand ; And there I met another man, Whoso hat was in his hand." To such specimens it would indeed be a fair and full reply, that these... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...is the style of prose ? He will not suppose me capable of having in my mind such verses, as " I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the Strand ; And there I met another man, Whose hat was in his hand." To such specimens it would indeed be a fair and full reply, that these... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1865 - 232 pages
...which any man may imitate who thinks proper to try ; as, for instance," (this he said impromptu,) I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man With his hat in his hand. On another occasion, when criticizing Percy's Re^vjueg at Mr. Reynold's tea-table,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 pages
...only meant to attack the metre ; but he certainly turned the whole poem into ridicule : — ' I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man With his hat in his hand '.' Mr. Garrick, in a letter to me, soon afterwards asked me, ' Whether I... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1908 - 316 pages
...it is the style of prose ? He will not suppose me capable of having in my mind such verses, as I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the strand ; And there I met another man, Whose hat was in his hand. To such specimens it would indeed be a fair and full reply, that these lines... | |
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I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the strand ; And there I met another man, Whose hat was in his hand. 
