 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 страници
...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... | |
 | 1876 - 604 страници
...poetry there was any line of demarcation at all? In the Preface from which we have quoted we read : ' 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 страници
...in no respect differ from that of good Prose. r 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 - 1880 - 676 страници
...differ from that of good prose. I will go further. l 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1880 - 164 страници
...demarcation at all ? In the Preface [to the " Lyrical Ballads"] from which we have quoted we read : '"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... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - 1881 - 204 страници
...practice into a general principle in the following " 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... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 378 страници
...elaboration of poetic diction, but whose works nevertheless were extreme examples affording proof enough that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. Of quite another kind (and perhaps deserving of the critical outcry against Wordsworth's note) is Coleridge's... | |
 | 1883 - 528 страници
...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;... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1883 - 372 страници
...truth, in the masterly preface to his " Lyrical Ballads." " It maybe 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,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 страници
...nauseous, Wordsworth adopted a theory, fully expounded in various of his prefaces to his poems, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. " I have proposed to myself," he said, " to imitate and, as far as is possible, to adopt the very language... | |
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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. 
