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...d injury, to influence her son in any steps which he might take either for prosecuting or relinquishing his own just claims. It appeared from my poor ... ...ad a very pretty moral. Mr. Esmond dabbled in letters, and wrote a deal of prose and verse at this time of leisure. When displeased with the conduct o... ...e could Mr. Steele’s manner (as for the other author of the Spectator, his prose style I think is altogether inimitable); and Dick, who was the idlest... ...ess her who hath blessed it. By the kindness of Mr. Addison, all danger of prosecution, and every obstacle against our return to England, was removed;...

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...ight. The egoism of the Englishman is self- contained. He does not seek to proselytise. He takes no in- terest in Scotland or the Scotch, and, what is... ... less serious vein – for it was not Congreve’s verse, it was his exquisite prose, that I admired and sought to copy. Even at the age of thirteen I had... ...e far more honest; Jack gives us the animated po- etry, Burly the romantic prose, of similar themes; the one glances high like a meteor and makes a li... ... deal much in points of conduct and religion studied in the “dry light” of prose. Indirectly and as if against his will the same elements from time to... ...rous ardour? I wonder. Yet Clarissa has every quality that can be shown in prose, one alone excepted – pictorial or picture-making romance. While Robi... ...versity of the elements of truth and pleasure. Such are epics, and the few prose tales that have the epic weight. But as from a school of works, aping... ...he art of verse, an art of handicraft, and only comparable with the art of prose. For that heat and height of sane emotion *This paper, which does not... ...es, in any art, more often absent from them all; too seldom present in the prose novel, too frequently absent from the ode and epic. Fiction is the sa... ...o propose two additions, and read thus: the art of fictitious narrative in prose. Now the fact of the existence of the modern English novel is not to ...

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...- ment, in as far as it regards the technical change that came over modern prose romance, has never perhaps been ex- plained with any clearness. To do... ...although he had recognised that the novel was nothing else than an epic in prose, wrote in the spirit not of the epic, but of the drama. This is not, ... ...r that we shall find Scott himself, in so far as regards his conception of prose fiction and its purposes, surpassed in his own spirit, instead of tam... ...less artistic, that generally go hand in hand with it in the conception of prose romance. The purely critical spirit is, in most novels, paramount. At... ...es with one hand, and holding a book in the other. We are surprised at the prose style of Robert; that of Gilbert need surprise us no less; even Willi... ...e the dear lassie,” he sings, “because she loves me;” or, in the tongue of prose: “Finding an opportu- nity, I did not hesitate to profit by it, and e... ...can only be described by saying that he has not taken the trouble to write prose. I believe myself that it was selected principally because it was eas... ...although not without recollections of the marching measures of some of the prose in our English Old Testament. According to Whitman, on the other hand... ... time has arrived to essen- tially break down the barriers of form between Prose and Poetry . . . for the most cogent purposes of those great in- land...

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...lly beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one; but as prose writing bad been of great use to The Autobiography of Benjamin Fran... ...ned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my col lections ... ...He became, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 37 however, a pretty good prose writer. More of him hereafter. But, as I may not have occasion agai... ...ited plays; belong’d to the Witty Club there, and had written some pieces in prose and verse, which were printed in the Gloucester newspapers; thence ... ...ul Goodness! Con- trive day's business and take the res- olution of the day; prosecute the present study, and breakfast. } 8 9 10 11 Work. Noon. } { 1... ... his writing on which to found a censure and give him a lower character, his proselytes would be left at liberty to feign for him as great a variety o... ...ndeed small as a poet, Pope having damned his poetry in the Dunciad; but his prose was thought as good as any man’s. The Assembly finally finding the ...

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...ied among the phrases, unless knot and word be precisely what is wanted to forward and illuminate the argument; for to fail in this is to swindle in t... ... once of elegance and of good sense; and the two oranges, even if one of them be rotten, kept dancing with inimitable grace. Up to this moment I have ... ...lays down shall be neither too easy nor too hard. Hence it comes that it is much easier for men of equal facility to write fairly pleasing verse than ... ...ctor Hugo, whom I place beside them as ver- sifier merely, not as poet. These not only knit and knot the logical texture of the style with all the dex... ... on, the well-knit sentence; and yet a little fur- ther, and both will reach their solution on the same ringing syllable. The best that can be offered... ...lf. Yet it must not be thought that verse is simply an addition; something is lost as well as something gained; and there re- mains plainly traceable,... ... distinction of method in the web. Tight as the versifier may draw the knot of logic, yet for the ear he still leaves the tissue of the sentence float... ...a fine flourish of eloquence in Shakespeare’s second manner, and set it side by side with Falstaff ’s praise of sherris, act iv. scene iii.; or let us... ... nobility as Othello’s farewell to war; and still you will be able to perceive, if you have an ear for that class of music, a certain superior degree ...

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...dlike pleasure in her own idea. “The theme is better suited for verse than prose; and when I go home to America, I will suggest it to one of our poets... ...lement with Miriam’s misfortunes, and the good abbate’s mistaken hope of a proselyte, seem to me a sufficient clew to the whole mystery.” “The atmosph...

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...ia, Empresse of my Loue, 1389 These numbers will I teare, and write in prose. 1390 Ber. O Rimes are gards on wanton Cupids hose, 1391 ...

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... books, from news, from company, from all that can relieve existence but the prosecution of his affairs. A sky full of stars is the most varied specta... ...de Charles d’Orleans, a map, and a ver- sion book containing divers notes in prose and the remark- able English roundels of the voyager, still to this... ...ks of Mr. Andrew Lang; who has written of it but the other day in his dainty prose and with his incommunicable humour, and long ago in one of his best... ...ut lays a claim to some dormant title or some castle and estate: a claim not prosecutable in any court of law, but flat- tering to the fancy and a gre...

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... half curious. And yet he was serious; he was fascinated by Newman’s plain prose 221 Henry James version of the legend of El Dorado. It is true, howe... ...ay be fought, it has a kind of picturesque charm which in this age of vile prose seems to me greatly to recommend it. It’s a remnant of a higher- temp...

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...ne, or to conceal himself from others. Ambition suffi- ciently plagues her proselytes, by keeping them always in show, like the statue of a public, sq... ...wers, and that all other rules give place to his: “Materiam culpae prosequiturque suae.” [“And seeks out a matter (motive) for his crimes.”—Ov... ...housand poets flag and lan- guish after a prosaic manner; but the best old prose (and I strew it here up and down indifferently for verse) shines thro... ...nd boldness of poetry, and not without some air of its fury. And certainly prose ought to have the pre-eminence in speaking. The poet, says Plato, sea... ...ts: “Mista senum et juvenum densentur funera; nullum Saeva caput Proserpina fugit;” [“Old and young die in mixed heaps. Cruel Proserpine for...

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...ust be evident to anybody who reads the Police Reports of such cases. But, prosecutions are of rare occurrence, relatively to the extent to which the ... ...essing the South Eastern Company for realising the Arabian Nights in these prose days, murmuring, as I wing my idle flight into the land of dreams, ‘N... ...er. He thought, all along, it was a real Butcher. When the counsel for the prosecution said, “I will now call before you, gentlemen, the Police office...

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...: O sweet Maria, empress of my love! These numbers will I tear, and write in prose. BIRON: O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid’s hose: Disfigure not...

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...ssed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been...

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... another art which imitates by means of language alone, and that either in prose or verse—which, verse, again, may either combine different metres or ... ...n dancing,: flute-playing, and lyre-playing. So again in language, whether prose or verse unaccompanied by music. Homer, for example, makes men better... ...ion of the meaning in words; and its essence is the same both in verse and prose. Of the remaining elements Song holds the chief place among the embel... ...ecessity . The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be... ...iliar speech, the most appropriate words are those which are found even in prose. These are,—the current or proper, the metaphorical, the ornamental. ...

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... going, with malice aforethought’ as the dreadful lawyers say—those horrid proses!—to condemn me to utter solitude;’ ‘Why do me so great an injustice,...

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...is style on Ruskin; he understood him to be the greatest master of English Prose. He read forward steadily, occasionally mak- ing a few notes. “Let us... ...uld not do; and that something, had he known it, was the spirit of English Prose. “My flat is dark as well as stuffy.” Those were the words for him. A... ...st gulf between my love- making and yours. Yours was romance; mine will be prose. I’m not running it down—a very good kind of prose, but well consider... ... to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half... ...very man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be see... ...or a lie. If necessary he would deny that he had ever known Mrs. Bast, and prosecute her for libel. Perhaps he never had known her. Here was Margaret,... ...away without food. Then it 266 Howards End was never ‘Trespassers will be prosecuted’ in their land, but would people please not come in? Mrs. Howard...

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...e- public). We are in the habit of opposing speech and writ- ing, poetry and prose. But he has discovered a use of lan- guage in which they are united...

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...al prosaic/poetical experience. Let us remember, in this field, among the prose writers, Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Marques, Toni Mor... ...ence to the main provisions would allow him. His literary works - poetry, prose, drama - extend from artistic autonomy to an exclusive illustration... ...ously his real and meets it angrily Look with what comes out “the vulgar prose” Saint Simion Lemnaru (manuscript, dated Istanbul - Ankara, in the c... ...n the relief of the truth, liberating through avowal. Evolving also in prose towards paradoxism, Florentin Smarandache will publish a NonNovel (1... ...doxism, Florentin Smarandache will publish a NonNovel (1993), resuming in prose the experience of the European avant-garde dramaturgy to launching n... ...-many-people-and-moves-alone-on-rails (1994), is an example of paradoxist prose trough an inverse distribution of the reactions of characters. At an ... ...f error named the texts gathered in Defective writings - paradoxist short prose (in manuscript) - “the contradictions of an heretic spirit”, contamin... ...xist frame-show. Under the title Greuceanu are gathered “rebusistic short prose”, “mathematical short prose” (having to solve “the implications of S... ... Bengalis, Chemical, Physical, Martian, Astrological, Metagalactical, ... prose” (the new puzzles of a modern Sphinx). We also meet photographic, gr...

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..., but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.     ’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In Poets as true Genius is but rare, True Taste as seldom is the Critic’s share; Both must alike from Heav’n derive their ...

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...on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales Lines Written in Evelyn’s Book on Coins Epigram (“Did Milton’s prose...”) Epigram (“Should Dennis print...”) Mr. J. M. Smythe Epigram on Mr. Moore’s Going to Law with Mr. Giliver Epigram (“A gold watch found...”) Epitaph on James Moore-Smythe A Question by Anonymous Epigram (“Grea...

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...ulu -- 360 -- A Prayer. -- 507 -- Born Was the Island -- 363 -- An Ancient Prayer -- 508 -- Old Creation Chant (incomplete) -- 363 -- Prayer to Lono (prose translation) -- 510 -- Primary Gods and Creations. -- 364 -- A Prayer -- 510 -- The Fall of Kumtuhonua and His Wife -- 366 -- A Song of Jesus -- 511 -- The Flood -- 366 -- The Holy Bible, by Kanui -- -- 512 -- Fallen i...

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...ossible, we resolved to master the significance. But as man is emphatically a proselytizing creature, no sooner was such mastery even fairly at tempte... ...lemagne Mantle, as well as in the poorest Ox goad and Gypsy Blanket, he finds Prose, Decay, Contemptibility; there is in each sort Poetry also, and a r... ...ike the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosecute without shadow of a heart,—but one other of the mechanical and ... ...outlooks; at all events, in what mood of mind, the Profes sor undertook and prosecuted this world pilgrimage,—the answer is more distinct than favora... ...ghting him? Your Byron publishes his Sorrows of Lord George, in verse and in prose, and copi ously otherwise: your Bonaparte represents his Sorrows o... ...“For it is here that Fantasy with her mystic wonderland plays into the small prose domain of Sense, and becomes incorporated therewith. In the Symbol ... ...p strength and ferocity, it requires but to be stated in such scenes to make proselytes enough.— Admirably calculated for destroying, only not for reb... ... it would seem, are hourly increasing. The Dandiacal, again, is by nature no prose lytizing Sect; but it boasts of great hereditary resources, and is... ...els dr¨ ockh, is not without some touch of the universal feeling, a wish to proselytize. How often already have we paused, uncertain whether the basi...

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...st ardent philosophy, and more than ever impressed with the ne- cessity of prosecuting our experiment with vigor and with zeal. It was by his advice, ... ...music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, wi thout the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness. “What was meant by the invective again...

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..., and other physical assets so that their unauthorized acquisition can be prosecuted as theft.‖ In his Epilogue just ahead in this book, Professo... ...hors who hated copyright. For instance, in his Areopagitica speech—a 1644 prose polemical tract—John Milton urged Parliament to preserve for the Eng...