 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...Nothing can be more just than this observation ; and nothing 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; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dry... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...age is never the language ' of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, ' where the sentiment or image does not support it, ' differs in nothing from prose. Our poetry, on the con' trary, has a language peculiar to itself) to which al' most every one that has" wrtiten has added... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...The language of the age is never the language of poetry,! except among the 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...this observation; and nothing more likely 127 of poetry ; except among the 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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...; 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. Shakespear and Milton have been great creators this way ; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dryden,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...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...written, has added something by enriching it with foreyu'idioms and derivatives: nay, sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakspeare... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs...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...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 - 1824 - 398 pages
...Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakespear and Milton have been great creators this way ; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dryden,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs...sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakespear 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... 
