| adolphus richter - 1834 - 506 pages
...profundity to its style ; in reality, it contains nothing that is new, except the mechanism of its diction. Verse cannot contain the refining subtle thoughts...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."*... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1834 - 636 pages
...profundity to its style; in reality, it contains nothing that is new, except the mechanism of its diction. Verse cannot contain the refining subtle thoughts...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,... | |
| 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."... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 342 pages
...(says the student, in Mr. ' Bulwer's Pilgrims of the Rhine,') cannot contain the refining, subtile thoughts which a great prose writer embodies ; the...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."... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 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."—... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...(says the student, in Mr. ' Bulwer's Pilgrims of the Rhine,') cannot contain the refining, subtile thoughts which a great prose writer embodies ; the...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."... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 580 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...poetry than of prose." This sentiment charmed Vane, who bad nothing of the poet about him ; and he took the student to share their breakfast at the inn, with... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1884 - 950 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...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 prone.'... | |
| John Ruskin - 1893 - 132 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 " ("Pilgrims of the Rhine"). Yet although prose is thus more refined, poetry is the most inspiring,... | |
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