“A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Stanza 3. <br class="br"> I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)
“Boswell is pleasant and gay,
For frolic by nature designed;
He heedlessly rattles away
When company is to his mind.”
In a poem about himself, in "Biographic Sketches" in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal Vol. IV (1836). p. 341
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