 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 pagini
...1 " 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." — Gray to West. 2 Diderot and Rousseau, however, thought their language un6t for poetry, and Voltaire... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 pagini
...observing, " 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...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakespeare and Milton have been great creators this way ." To this West replied in a very interesting... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 208 pagini
...meant the language of conversation, for he goes on to say, " Except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose." Gray's correspondence with Mason proves that he had no such theory. Let a pair of instances suffice.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1892 - 272 pagini
...of the age is never the language of poetry; except among the French, whose verse, where the thought does not support it, differs in nothing from prose....almost every one that has written has added something. In truth, Shakespeare's language is one of his principal beauties ; and he has no less advantage over... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 368 pagini
...meant the language of conversation, for he goes on to say, " Except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose." Gray's correspondence with Mason proves that he had 110 such theory. Let a pair of instances suffice.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1893 - 656 pagini
...against the opinion I expressed in the first part of yesterday's conversation. Here it is. " Our poetry has a language peculiar to itself; to which almost...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 pagini
...observing, " 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...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakespeare and Milton have been great creators this way." To this West replied in a very interesting... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 252 pagini
...45 prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself ; to which almost everyone, that has written, has added something by enriching...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakespear and Milton 50 have been great creators this way ; and no one more licentious than Pope or... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 pagini
...diction : — "The language of the age," says Gray, "is never the language of Poetry. . . . Our poetry has a language peculiar to itself, to which almost...every one, that has written, has added something, by criticising it with foreign idioms and derivations, nay, often with new words and invented terms of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 250 pagini
...: 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 45 prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself ; to which almost everyone,... | |
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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... 
