| 1833 - 598 lapas
...become good prose, when the metre was removed. For what follows ? Mr Wordsworth proceeds to declare, ' I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed...the language of prose and ' metrical composition.' This is good news for prose translators. But whence then the fact that few great poets have succeeded... | |
| 1814 - 774 lapas
...importance to language. It has, indeed, of late, been said, that language is nothing in poetry, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and that of metrical composition. The fact, perhaps, we may allow ; that is, we may allow that there are... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 lapas
...shown that the language of Prose may yet be well adapted to Poetry ; and I have previously asserted that a large portion of the language of every good...difference between the language of prose and metrical composi-. tion. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly,... | |
| 1829 - 1008 lapas
...mutton broth ? If it be true, as Cowper says, that 'MA kick serts a most untenable proposition, viz. " that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." He thinks " it would be a most easy task to prove this, by innumerable passages from almost all the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 316 lapas
...examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. " There neither is or can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition" Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least, in all argumentative and consecutive... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 368 lapas
...important ; its examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. " There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now, prose itself, at least, in all argumentative and consecutive... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 414 lapas
...thinks he has) " the very language of men," Wordsworth asserts a most untenable proposition, viz. " that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." He thinks " it would be a most easy task to prove this, by innumerable passages from almost all the... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 lapas
...thinks he has) " the very language of men," Wordsworth asserts a most untenable proposition, viz. " that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." He thinks " it would be a most easy task to prove this, by innumerable passages from almost all the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 lapas
...important; its examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. ' There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of jn-ose and metrical composition." Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now. prow itself, at least, in... | |
| 1908 - 622 lapas
...nachträglich befragten Büchern traf. Da ist Wordsworths ausdrückliche Erklärung, dais 'there neither i» nor can be any essential difference between the language of Prose and Verse. Es ist richtig, dafs sie in erster Linie für ihn selbst charakteristisch ist (vgl. Herford,... | |
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