 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost every one, that has written, has added something by enriching...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakespeare and Milton have been great creators this way; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dry... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost every one that has written, has added something by enriching...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakspeare and Milton have been great creators this way; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dryden,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...French, whose verse, v/here the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from jprose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost every one, that has written, has added something by enriching it with foreign idioms and derivatwes... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...prose, t Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself, to which almost every one that has written has added something, by enriching it with foreign idioms and derivations, nay sometimes words of their own composition and invention. Shakspeare and Milton have... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost every one, that has written, has added something by enriching...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakspeare and Milton have been great creators this way ; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dryden,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost every one that has written, has added something by enriching...and derivatives : nay, sometimes words of their own compositions or invention. Shakspeare and Milton have been great creators this way : and no one more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in hothing from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost every one that has written, has added something by enriching it with foreign idioms and derivatives... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost every one, that has written has added something by enriching...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakspeare and Milton have been great creators this way; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dryden,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...French, whose verse, when the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose, t Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself, to which almost every one that has written has added something, by enriching it with foreign idioms and derivations,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...conversation. Here it is. " Our poetry has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost every one that has written has added something by enriching...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakspeare and Milton have been great creators this way ; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dryden,... | |
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I have this to say : the language of the age is never the language of poetry ; except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to... 
