dream-pedlary

Updated: May 2, 2025

Although quotation is in the main impossible in this book, Beddoes, despite the efforts of his friend Kelsall, of Mr. Swinburne, of Mr. I have known a critic who said deliberately of the above-mentioned stanza in "Dream-Pedlary" If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell, Some a light sigh That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a roseleaf down.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)