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 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 lehte
...only the language of a large portion of every pood poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in...likewise that some of the most interesting parts of thYoest poems wul be found_to_be strictly the language of prose when prose is. jie.ll written. The... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 lehte
...only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in...all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself. To illustrate the subject in a general manner, I will here adduce a short composition of Gray, who... | |
 | 1871 - 606 lehte
...only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in...the language of prose when prose is well written.' (Wordsworth, Preface to the ' Lyrical Ballads.') The obvious inference is that the best poems are those... | |
 | 1871 - 612 lehte
...only the langnage of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in...of the best poems will be found to be strictly the langnage of prose when prose is well written.' ( Wordsworth, Preface to the ' Lyrical Ballads.') The... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 lehte
...only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, hut likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the hest poems will he found to he strictly... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 lehte
...only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in...all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself. I have not space for much quotation ; but, to illustrate the subject in a general manner, I will here... | |
 | 1872 - 830 lehte
...only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in...the language of prose when prose is well written." ( Wordsworth, Preface to the "Lyrical Ballads.") The obvious inference is that the best poems are those... | |
 | Francis William Upham - 1873 - 454 lehte
...achievement, * Wordsworth — Preface to Lyrical Ballads — says : " It would be a most easy task to prove that some of the most interesting parts of the best...the language of prose, when prose is well "written." there is some reason for thinking it is not the most difficult. It goes to show this, that song is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 lehte
...only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in...all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself. To illustrate the subject in a general manner, I will here adduce a short composition of Gray, who... | |
 | 1876 - 604 lehte
...necessarily, except with reference to metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but also that some of the most interesting parts of the best...the language of prose, when prose is well written.' Undoubtedly it would, ' except icith reference to metre,' but then this saving clause seems to contain... | |
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