 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 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 m^.rjp.al nntnposition."t Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...poem can in no respect differ from that of good Prose. We will go further. 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... | |
 | Edward Young - Pre-Raphaelitism - 1857 - 370 pages
...Idealism,, that we seem to be reading things over again — reason for reason — and word for word. " There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. They both speak to the same organs" (like JEolian harp and bagpipe). " Though the poet is endued with... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 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 itBelf, at least in all argumentative and consecutive... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 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.''f Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itBelf, at least in all argumentative... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 pages
...poem can in no respect differ from that of good Prose. We will go further. 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 [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 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 r. semblance between poetry and painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 pages
...truth, in the masterly preface to his " Lyrical Ballads." " It may be safely affirmed," he says, " that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition . . . Much confusion has been introduced into criticism by this contradistinction of Poetry and Prose,... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 760 pages
...truth, in the masterly preface to his " Lyrical Ballads." " It may be safely affirmed," he says, " that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition . . . Much confusion has been introduced into criticism by this contradistinction of Poetry and Prose,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 366 pages
...poem can in no respect differ from that of good Prose. We will go further. 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... | |
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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. 
