 | Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 pages
...Gray" in 1775. This Sonnet possesses an additional interest from the use made of it by Wordsworth in the Preface to his "Lyrical Ballads" (1800), in illustration...smiling. Milton three times speaks of the "smiling morn," "Paradise Lost," v. 124, 168; xi. 175. 3. amorous descant is from Milton, " Paradise Lost," iv. 603... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1891 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1892 - 426 pages
...known as poetic diction as others had taken to produce it. Moreover, he asserted as a general principle that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition ; that the true language of poetry is, as far as possible, a selection of the language really spoken... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 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 Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 286 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 Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Engelse digkuns - 1894 - 400 pages
...Gray " in 1775. This Sonnet possesses an additional interest from the use made of it by Wordsworth in the Preface to his "Lyrical Ballads" (1800), in illustration...smiling. Milton three times speaks of the "smiling morn," " Pa-adise Lost," v. 124, 168; xi. 175. 3. amorous descant is from Milton, " Paradise Lost," iv. 603... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | William Minto - English literature - 1894 - 438 pages
...strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written." And again : " It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." This was the gist of Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction, that in the best parts of the best poems... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 622 pages
...into a general principle in the following passage : " 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 sisters... | |
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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. 
