 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
 | Abraham Coles - Bible - 1885 - 836 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...one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake." ambitions ; and if in his weakness and unworthiness he has done anything to make the adorable Redeemer... | |
 | Christianity - 1888 - 438 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." " Prior's,"... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...difficult to succeed in. To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaic, to marshal ihe words of it in such an order as they might naturally...accomplish this task was Prior : many have imitated liis excellence in this particular, but the best copies have fallen short of the original." Kitty was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 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...without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake." 2 Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, did... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 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...to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, la one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish this task was Prior... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 458 pages
...familiar style is of all styles the most difficult to succeed in. 2 E MO. To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaic, to marshal the words...elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for tlie sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English literature - 1896 - 430 pages
...familiar IS 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.'1 ' Prior's,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English literature - 1896 - 394 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.'1 'Prior's,'... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1903 - 190 pages
...inferred from his reply to Johnson's criticism of Prior's verse: "To make verse speak the language of prose without being prosaic, to marshal the words...one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake." (Southey's Life of Ooioper, ch. 12.) "Lord Howe had no sooner come back from this successful cruise,... | |
 | Brander Matthews - American poetry - 1904 - 338 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." A past master... | |
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