 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 ページ
...prose and metrical composition ? I answer that there neither is nor can be any essential difference. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry...call them Sisters : but where shall we find bonds of connection sufficiently stria to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition ? They... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 ページ
...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...call them Sisters : but where shall we find bonds of connection sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition ? They... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 ページ
...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...call them Sisters : but where shall we find bonds of connection sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition ? They... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 ページ
...Prose and Metrical composition ? 1 answer that there neither is nor can be any essential difference. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them siste r s; but where shall we find bonds of connection sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt... | |
 | 1833 - 598 ページ
...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 ページ
...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...call them Sisters : but where shall we find bonds of connection sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition ? They... | |
 | 1814 - 774 ページ
...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 - 1815 - 416 ページ
...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,... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
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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. 
