When winter's cutting gales swept fierce and free
Down th'wide upland plains of pilëd snow,
I loved to wade across the windy lea
To see the lake far-paved with icen floe, […]
Finally, on comparative telephonology. The virtues of examining telephone communications are largely methodological as the complicated facts of posture, gesture, gaze and facial expression can legitimately be ignored (see, for example, Schegloff 1986) and much conversation analytic attention, especially of the Scheglovian dialect, has been directed at this sort of data.
Elway acknowledged at the time that Lynch was a project who needed some seasoning but he expressed hope that Lynch might be a quick study. He wasn't.
Her legges that ye myght se;
But they were sturdy and stubbed,
Myghty pestels and clubbed,
As fayre and as whyte
As the fote of a kyte