 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 Hayley - 1806 - 404 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. And now to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 pages
...familiai; stile, is of all stiles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaic,, to marshal the words...elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the.sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1817 - 324 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. And now to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prow, without being prosaic, to marshal! the words of it...yet without meanness ; harmoniously, elegantly, and witliout seeming to displace a syllabic for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 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 ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 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...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 ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 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...extemporary speaker, yet without meanness ; harmoniously, COWPER S LETTERS. elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 390 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 400 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 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...that could accomplish this task was Prior : many have imi55 To Mr. Unwin, March 21, 1784. He asks, and with good reason, what could have suggested to Johnson... | |
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