A poet may be a simple being but he is bound to be various and full of wiles, ingenious and irritable.

I reflected on the variety of ways the ingenuity of the late bard of civilization would be able to invent for the tormenting of his dependants.

Poets not being generally foresighted in practical affairs, no vision of consequences would restrain him.

Yes.

The Fynes were excellent people, but Mrs.Fyne wasn't the daughter of a domestic tyrant for nothing.