To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaic, — to marshal the words of it in such an order as they might naturally take in falling from the lips of an extemporary speaker, yet without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3621874Full view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaic, to marshal the words...tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish * The language in the original is as follows: " His expression has every mark of laborious study ;... | |
| Robert Southey - 1839 - 380 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose without being prosaic, to marshal the words...accomplish this task was Prior: many have imitated his excellence in this particular, but the best copies have fallen far short of the original." This admiration... | |
| Robert Southey - 1839 - 382 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose without being prosaic, to marshal the words...accomplish this task was Prior: many have imitated his excellence in this particular, but the best copies have fallen far short of the original." This admiration... | |
| Robert Southey - 1843 - 388 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose without being prosaic, to marshal the words...sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet-can undertake. He that could accomplish this task was Prior : many have imitated his excellence... | |
| 1874 - 898 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose without being prosaic, to marshal the words...accomplish this task was Prior. Many have imitated his excellence in this particular, but the best copies have fallen short of the original." This is a generous... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language own at once, Or candidly confess yourself a dunce....shone A meteor, or a star ; in these the sun. 'I hr excellence in this particular, but the best copies have fallen far short of the original. And now to... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pages
...difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaie, to marshall e h excellence in this particular, but the best copies have fallen far short of the origmal. And now to... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make vcise speak the language of prose, without being prosaic, to marshal the words...seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rbvuie. is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish this task was... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...language of prose, without being prosaie, to marehall the words of it in such an order, as they nri¡iht naturally take in falling from the lips of an extemporary...arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could aecomplish this task was Prior; many have imitated his excellence in this particular, but the best... | |
| William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1853 - 518 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaic, — to marshal the...accomplish this task was Prior; many have imitated his excellence in this particular, but the best copies have fallen far short of the original. And now to... | |
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