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“From his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A-walking the Devil is gone,
To look at his little, snug farm of the World,
And see how his stock went on.”

Robert Southey

St. 1. <br class="br"> The Devil&#x27;s Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“So I told them in rhyme,
For of rhymes I had store.”

Robert Southey

St. 1. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

“My days among the Dead are past;
Around me I behold,
Where'er these casual eyes are cast,
The mighty minds of old;
My never-failing friends are they,
With whom I converse day by day.”

Robert Southey

My Days Among the Dead Are Past http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1957.html, st. 1 (1818).

“How, then, was the Devil dressed?
Oh! he was in his Sunday's best;
His coat was red, and his breeches were blue,
And there was a hole where his tail came through.”

Robert Southey

St. 3. <br class="br"> The Devil&#x27;s Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“Every body is a critic.”

Robert Southey

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=LUFjAAAAcAAJ&amp;q=%22every+body+is+a+critic%22&amp;pg=PA277#v=onepage to Robert Rickman (30 May 1804)

“Agreed to differ.”

Robert Southey

Life of Wesley (1820).

“The Satanic school.”

Robert Southey

Vision of Judgment, original preface (1821).

“The march of intellect.”

Robert Southey

Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 14. Compare: "The march of the human mind is slow", Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii., p. 149.

“No sooner was the Baltic open to our merchants, than corn was bought up there for importation into England; at the same time the continent was glutted with English goods, which, because the supply greatly exceeded the demand, were sold at less than their prime cost, and upon which the foreign governments soon laid new duties...to prevent the ruin of their own manufactures. This might have been a salutary lesson, if nations were ever rendered wise by experience; it might have taught us that, however willing one part of this nation might be to see the other ruined by the free admission of foreign grain, foreign governments would never consent to have their fabrics destroyed by the unrestricted introduction of British goods. It is a sound maxim in politics, whatever it may be in morals, that charity begins at home.”

Robert Southey

'On the Corn-Laws', The Quarterly Review, Vol. LI. (March & June 1834), p. 231
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