 ... corollaries which may be drawn from them. Thus, though it would seem at first a paradox, commonplace is more the element of poetry than of prose. And, sensible of this, even Schiller wrote the deepest of modern tragedies, his Fiesco, in prose.  Novels - Page 226by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892Full view - About this book
 | John George Cochrane - 1834 - 636 pages
...that is new, except the mechanism of its diction. Verse cannot contain the refining subtle thoughts which a great prose writer embodies; the rhyme eternally...paradox, common-place is more the element of poetry than °f prose; and, sensible of this, even Schiller wrote the deepest of modern tragedies, his Fiesco,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1834 - 476 pages
...that is new, except the mechanism of its diction. Verse cannot contain the refining subtle thoughts which a great prose writer embodies ; the rhyme eternally...which are now hackneyed, and not with the nice and philosophising corollaries which may be drawn from them. Thus, though it would seem at first a paradox,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1834 - 476 pages
...the common problems of human nature which are now hackneyed, and not with the nice and philosophising corollaries which may be drawn from them. Thus, though...commonplace is more the element of poetry than of prose. And, sensible of this, even Schiller wrote the deepest of modern tragedies, his Fiesco, in prose."... | |
 | 1835 - 560 pages
...its diction Verse cannot contain the refming subtle thoughts which a great prose writer embodics ; the rhyme eternally cripples it; it properly deals...common-place is more the element of poetry than of prose ; and, sensible of this, even Schiller wrote the deepest of modern tragedies, his Fiesco, in prose."*... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...instance at least; more particularly as Mr. Bulwer winds up his argument by this illustration — " Thus, though it would seem at first a paradox, common-place is more the element of poetry than of prose ; and, sensible of this, even Schiller wrote the deepest of modern tragedies, his Fiesco, in prose."... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1842 - 380 pages
...poets would be commonplace if turned into prose. Verse cannot contain the refining subtle thoughts which a great prose writer embodies ; the rhyme eternally...them. Thus, though it would seem at first a paradox, commonplane is more the element of poetry than of prose." This sentiment charmed Vane, who had nothing... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1847 - 406 pages
...bear with this digression a moment longer, — 'verse cannot contain the refining, subtile thoughts, which a great prose writer embodies : the rhyme eternally...philosophizing corollaries which may be drawn from them. Though it would seem at first a paradox, commonplace is the element of poetry rather than of prose.... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1847 - 392 pages
...bear with this digression a moment longer,—'verse cannot contain the refining, subtile thoughts, which a great prose writer embodies: the rhyme eternally...philosophizing corollaries which may be drawn from them. Though it would seem at first a paradox, commonplace is the element of poetry rather than of prose.... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1848 - 414 pages
...bear with this digression a moment longer,—'verse cannot contain the refining, subtile thoughts, which a great prose writer embodies : the rhyme eternally...philosophizing corollaries which may be drawn from them. Though it would seem at first a paradox, commonplace is the element of poetry rather than of prose.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 342 pages
...the student, in Mr. ' Bulwer's Pilgrims of the Rhine,') cannot contain the refining, subtile thoughts which a great prose writer embodies ; the rhyme eternally...commonplace is more the element of poetry than of prose. And, sensible of this, even Schiller wrote the deepest of modern tragedies, his ' Fiesco,' in prose."... | |
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