...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 composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them...

...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 composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them...

...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...

...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...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them...

...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...

...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 composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...important ; its examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. " There neither is, nor 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...