 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 1805 - 284 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1814 - 774 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 sidor
...assuredly does possess, " THE VISION AND THE FACULTY DIVINE." One point then alone remains, but that the most important ; its examination having been,...for the preceding inquisition. " There neither is or can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition," Such is... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
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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. 
