 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1899 - 386 pages
...compositions be in prose or in verse, they require and exact one and the same language.' And again : ' There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...the language of prose and metrical composition.' And he carried his practice to an even greater extreme than his theory ; and this extreme practice shows... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...feelings and notions in simple >, c £ UJ E i z O s J UJ X III & UJ I £ and unelaborated expressions." 3. "There neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." The most, perhaps, that can be said in favor of these principles is that, without being absolutely... | |
 | Florence Bartling - 1901 - 140 pages
...come from the rustic mind. The point that Coleridge makes most of is that in Wordsworth's assertion,- "There neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and of metrical conposition". By analysis of the origin of meter in passion; of the heightening effects... | |
 | Francis Heveningham Pughe - 1902 - 190 pages
...language of every good poem can in no respect differ from that of good Prose It may be safely afflrmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. Vorrede zu der 2'jn auflg. der Lyrical Ballads. Moxon's Wordsw.-ausg., vol. V, 1850 p. 169. 3 ) So... | |
 | Francis Heveningham Pughe - 1902 - 192 pages
...every good poem can in no respect differ from that of good Prose It may be safely affirmed, that tliere neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. Vorrede zu der 2|e" auflg. der Lyrkai Ballads. Moxon's Wordsw.-ausg., vol. V, 1850 p. 169. 2) So urteilt... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1903 - 190 pages
...this ode and elsewhere is sufficient proof that he would not have assented to Wordsworth's doctrine, that " there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." Collins means what we should perhaps rather call sincerity: " the voice of Nature and genuine emotion... | |
 | Franciscus Petrus Hubertus Prick van Wely - 1903 - 542 pages
...dan het hij hom hier ongelukkig uitgedruk. Want, soos W'ORDSWORTH se, „it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." Verder se hij: „Het begrip wil gevat zijn in juiste woorden; het beeld vergt bovendien het treffende,... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 326 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Criticism - 1904 - 690 pages
...comes at last to the main attack, which he has so often feinted, on Wordsworth's astounding dictum that "there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." After clearing his friend (and patient) from an insinuation of paradox, he becomes a little "metaphysical"... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - English poetry - 1904 - 514 pages
...this ode and elsewhere is sufficient proof that he would not have assented to Wordsworth's doctrine, that " there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." Collins means what we should perhaps rather call sincerity : "the voice of Nature and genuine emotion... | |
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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. 
