 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 Seiten
...poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interestiDg parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose, when prose... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 Seiten
...poem , even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting pirts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written.... | |
 | 1833 - 598 Seiten
...poem, even of the most elevated ' character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, ' in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise,...the language of prose when prose is well * written.' Since the particular case of translation is thus mixed up with and supported by reference to a formal... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose ; but likewise...the most interesting parts of the best poems will be strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated... | |
 | 1871 - 608 Seiten
...most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect diSer from that of good prose, but likewise that some of...the language of prose when prose is well written.' (Wordsworth, Preface to the ' Lyrical Ballads.') The obvious inference is that the best poems are those... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 Seiten
...poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose ; but likewise...the most interesting parts of the best poems will be strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 Seiten
...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 poetical writings, even of Milton himself;" but he confines himself to quoting the following sonnet of Gray, in order " to illustrate the subject... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 Seiten
...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 poetical writings, even of Milton himself;" but he confines himself to quoting the following sonnet of Gray, in order " to illustrate the subject... | |
 | 1844 - 398 Seiten
...poem, even of the most elevated character, most necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise...all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself." Wordsworth's whole life has been almost literally derated to the cultivation of those feelings and... | |
 | 1845 - 458 Seiten
...from Locke) of his calm and beautiful reasoning. Wordsworth remarks, — and well, as we think, — that " some of the most interesting parts of the best...to be strictly the language of prose, when prose is well-written." How could the story of " the Death-bed," by Hood, (which we extract from Longfellow's... | |
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And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose,... 
