 It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.  Biographia Literaria - Page 45by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...Prose. I will go further. I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...Prose. I will go further. I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...I will go further. I do not doubt that "it may be safely -affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any -essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Prose. I will go further. I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 598 pages
...proceeds to declare, ' I do not doubt ' that it may be safely affirmed that there neither is nor can be ' any essential difference between 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...inducement for the preceding inquisition. " There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference betioeen the language of prose and metrical composition." Such...conversation ; even as reading ought to differ from talking.* Unless, therefore, the difference denied be that of the mere words, as materials common to all styles... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...something more than conversation, so is verse something more than prose. But take the passage : — • "Now, prose itself, at least in all argumentative...conversation ; even as reading ought to differ from talking. Unless, therefore, the difference denied by Mr. Wordsworth be that of the mere words, as materials... | |
 | Henry Rogers - English language - 1838 - 150 pages
...prose. I will go further. I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between poetry and painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...neither it, nor can be, any essential diffract between the language of prove and metrical cattpamtion" D Unless, therefore, the difference denied be that of the mere uxrJs, as materials com* It is no lees... | |
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