Accordingly, in his more deliberateprose criticism we find, amid his veneration of Shakespeare, his regard for the rules of the classical drama.
Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
In 1692 he brought out a prose translation, “with remarks,” of the Oedipus and Electra of Sophocles.
A tyro in literature could not, I am persuaded, form a better style of composition, than by taking Cowley's prose essays for his model.
I consider the prose writings both of Cowley and Dryden master-pieces.
I be allowed, now that his character and merits are revived, to direct attention to his prose works in preference to his poetical; although, as MR.
Selections in Prose and Verse from Anglo-Saxon Literature, with an Introductory Ethnological Essay, and Notes, critical and explanatory.
We cannot write a text-book in poetry, nor can we ever in a text-book written in prose put all the secret of poetry.
We have a right therefore to parallel the prose sight with the poetic visions and to find in what the one transcends the other.
Justice, for example, deals in prose fashion with a crime and awards the punishment which the law allows; poetic justice suggests such recompense as would come of itself in a community perfectly organized.
In its more complex forms poetry is rhythm of thought, leading the mind to find relations which prosemay describe, but which poetry alone can recreate.
There is such a thing as a prose thought and such a thing as a poetic thought.
Poetry differs from prose in that it lifts the thought so that its highest relations and suggestions are made known.
One can feel more of its power than the mind can define; for definitions are prose-forms of mind action, while poetry in its higher manifestations is pure emotion, outpassing prose limits.
Poetry passes beyond prose in that it quickens life by moving us to feel its nobler emotions.
The one essential element which distinguishes it from prose is rhythm.
Study, indeed, seems to belong exclusively to the prose habit; it seems to be of the intellect and not of the emotions; to be of the mind and not of the spirit.
The prose of life is honest living, a worthy endeavor to do the best one can in the world as it is; the poetry of life is the feeling for, and the striving after, the bringing of this life into harmony with a nobler living.
Let it be mine to unite the excellencies both of prose and verse in my inimitable epistles.
He says there is a great deal of poetry in your prose, and a great deal of prose in your poetry.
Had I formed my opinion of Corsica from what I saw this morning, I might have been in as bad humour with it, as Seneca was, whose reflections in prose are not inferiour to his epigrams.
From this day, my prose shall have a smack of verse, and my verse have a smack of prose.
To versify poetical prose has been found a very difficult task.
It is not necessary to reproduce these prose passages, whether they be Jeremiah’s or not; our versions of them, Authorised and Revised, are sufficiently clear.
The couplet in 17 may alone be original and 18, the text of which is reducible neither to metre nor wholly to sense, a prose note upon it.
Nor are the repetitions superfluous, not even that four-fold into the hand of in the prose section, for at each recurrence of the phrase we feel the grip of their captor closing more fast upon the doomed king and people.
The prose which follows is certainly from the Chaldean period, for it was not Scythians but Chaldeans who threatened with exile the peoples whom they overran.
We have seen how natural it was for the rhapsodists of his race to pass from verse to prose and again from prose to verse.
Duhm starts his usual objection that the passage is in prose and a style characteristic of the late expanders of the Book.
The sections of the Book which pass from verse to prose and from prose to verse are frequent.
A newspaper contains bits of English prosefrom hundreds of different pens, some skilled, some unskilled; and this jumble of styles does not determine good use.
Can you name any proseor verse in which corn does?
But your prose masters either cannot formulate what they have learned--or will not.
Met with in the pages of a review or magazine, Mr. Lowell's prose is always sure to be more or less pleasant reading.
Anatole France, the most eloquent and just of French prose writers, who says that we must recognise at last that, "failing the resolution to hold our peace, we can only talk of ourselves.
When we arrived in Adelaide the first reader of my prose went at once up-country, and died rather suddenly in the end, either in Australia or it may be on the passage while going home through the Suez Canal.
A writer of imaginative prose (even more than any other sort of artist) stands confessed in his works.
Now I think that shyness and that disbelief are common with either man or woman, if, however conscious of superiority in the prose of life, he or she recognizes inferiority in the poetry of it.
Still I am bound to say that both in verse and prose Gustave Rameau is in unison with a corrupt taste of the day, and therefore he is coming into vogue.
In the next century the Earl Derby retranslated the Iliad, while an excellent prose version of the Odyssey by Butcher and Lang was followed by a prose version of the Iliad by Lang Myers and Leaf.
No prose translation of outstanding merit has appeared.
In itself the dialogue form was no new thing; Plato adopted it and made it a thing of life and dramatic power, his style being the most finished example of exalted prose in Greek literature.
It is a remarkable fact that prose has been far more difficult to invent than poetry, for precision is essential to it as the language of reasoning rather than of feeling.
In the first place, we have the striking fact that scarcely any attention has been paid to prose composition; all the best writers having devoted themselves to poetry, as being most congenial to the national habits of thought.
If we look at the entire catalogue of female writers of prose fiction in this country we shall find no one who approaches Alice Carey in the best characteristics of genius.
Is it not true, Sir, that the romance is the proseepic of modern society, and that we now look to its pages for the most graphic portraitures of men, manners, and events?
The most ancient Welsh prose may probably be found in certain brief compositions, called Triads, which are said to be of Druidic origin.
The prose is graphic and vigorous, almost beyond conception; the poetry wild and singular, each piece composed in a particular measure.
After the Triads, the following are the principal prose works of the Welsh:-- 1.
The prose literature of Wales is by no means so extensive as the poetical; it, however, comprises much that is valuable and curious on historical, biographical, romantic and moral subjects.
Our modern English prose in plain matters is often all just the same as the proseof King Alfred and the Chronicle.
Long and painful is the list of persecutions directed against the growth of Thought, in prose and verse, and above all against illustrious men.
All the world is agreed that "Taras Boulba" is a true prose poem, modelled in the Homeric style, the hero of which is a people that long preserved a primitive character and customs.
In plain prose I didn't get home to dress until eleven, and the snow makes it hard going.
The admirable prose of a Huxley and his fellow labourers has been no less effective for popularizing scientific studies with the public they have addressed.
Most prose writers, however, use servitus merely as the abstract; servitium, and especially servitia, as the concrete term for servi.
In prose +sopor+ has only a causative meaning, a means of producing sleep, but not a deep sleep.
The practice of throwing a tub or barrel to a large fish, to divert the animal from gambols dangerous to a vessel, is also mentioned in an old prose translation of the Ship of Fools.
That Emerson had within him the soul of a poet no one will question, but his poems are expressed in prose forms.
The negative advantages of poetry over prose are probably sufficient to account for most of its power.
Nobody has the knack of this more strongly than Emerson in hisprose writings.
A few more considerations of the same negative nature, and which affect the vividness of either prose or verse, may be touched upon by way of preface to the inquiry, why Browning is hard to understand and why his verse is bad.
The prose version of these lines, which in this case is inferior, is to be found in Works and Days: "He only is rich who owns the day.
The same failure follows him sometimes in prose when he is too conscious of his machinery.
The reason is that in the poetry the sequence is intellectual, in the prose the sequence is emotional.
It is no mere epigram to say that his poetry is governed by the ordinary laws of prose writing, and his prose by the laws of poetry.
