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... prose . By the foregoing quotation it has been shown that the language of Prose may yet be well adapted to Poetry ; and it was previously asserted , that a large portion of the language of every good poem can in no respect differ from ...
... prose . By the foregoing quotation it has been shown that the language of Prose may yet be well adapted to Poetry ; and it was previously asserted , that a large portion of the language of every good poem can in no respect differ from ...
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... prose was a necessity ; but it was impossible that a fit prose should establish itself amongst us without some touch of frost to the imaginative life of the soul . The needful qualities for a fit prose are regularity , uniformity ...
... prose was a necessity ; but it was impossible that a fit prose should establish itself amongst us without some touch of frost to the imaginative life of the soul . The needful qualities for a fit prose are regularity , uniformity ...
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... prose are many , and it is the business of criticism to estimate them as such ; as it is good in the criticism of verse to look for those hard , logical , and quasi - prosaic excellences which that too has , or needs . To find in the ...
... prose are many , and it is the business of criticism to estimate them as such ; as it is good in the criticism of verse to look for those hard , logical , and quasi - prosaic excellences which that too has , or needs . To find in the ...
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