 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 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... | |
 | 1833 - 598 pages
...what follows ? Mr Wordsworth proceeds to declare, ' I do not doubt • that it may be safely affirmed that there neither is nor can be ' any essential difference...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 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...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...importance to language. It has, indeed, of late, been said, that language is nothing in poetry, — that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and that of metrical composition. The fact, perhaps, we may allow ; that is, we may allow that there are... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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 composi-. tion. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly,... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...mutton broth ? If it be true, as 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1834 - 368 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." 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. 
