 | Henry Rogers - English language - 1838 - 150 pages
...respect differ from that of good 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 430 pages
...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 - 416 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1908 - 612 pages
...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,... | |
 | India - 1847 - 556 pages
...of prose, when prose is well written." And again, — "I do not doubt that it may safely be affirmed that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." It were easy to prove that whatever modicum or mixture of truth there may be in this Wordsworthian... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 376 pages
...important ; its examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. " There neither is nor can be any essential difference...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, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 380 pages
...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."4 Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1848 - 378 pages
...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."4 Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 770 pages
...important; its examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. " There neither is nor can be any essential difference...the language of prose and metrical composition.'^ Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative and consecutive... | |
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It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. 
