 It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.  Wordsworth - Pagina 90door Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 232 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pagina’s
...good poem can in no 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,...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 - 282 pagina’s
...good poem can in no 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,...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 - 1805 - 284 pagina’s
...good poem can in no 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,...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...good poem can in no 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,...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 pagina’s
...good poem can in no 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,...difference between the language of prose and metrical composi-. tion. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly,... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 pagina’s
...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 - 1817 - 316 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pagina’s
...good poem can in no respect differ from lliat of good Prose. I will go further. 1 do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, auy es*eutial difference between the l.inguatfe of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing... | |
 | 1833 - 598 pagina’s
...the metre was removed. For what follows ? Mr Wordsworth proceeds to declare, ' I do not doubt ' that it may be safely affirmed that there neither is nor...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... | |
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