 ... success in it; but how much more powerful a personage does he appear in it, by dint of feeling, and of originality and movement of ideas, than when he is writing prose! With a Frenchman of like stamp, it is just the reverse: set him to write poetry,...  The Cornhill Magazine - Página 159editado por - 1864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1864 - 640 páginas
...writing prose ! With a Frenchman of like stamp, it is just the reverse : set him to write poetry, he is limited, artificial, and impotent ; set him to write...effective. The power of French literature is in its prose- writers, the power of English literature is in its poets. Nay, many of the celebrated French... | |
 | 1891 - 672 páginas
...with the flexibility of intelligence shown in French prose, and then occurs the well-known dictum : " The power of French literature is in its prose-writers,...the power of English literature is in its poets." 0. 0. B. How poets shonld come to excel in a country •which has designated itself practical, and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 332 páginas
...writing prose! With a Frenchman of like stamp, it is just the reverse: set him to write poetry, he is limited, artificial, and impotent; set him to write...fame upon the qualities of intelligence which they exhibit,—qualities which are the distinctive support of prose; many of the celebrated English prose-writers... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 páginas
...thus : — ' With a Frenchman of like stamp, ' it is just the reverse : set him to write poetry, he is limited, ' artificial, and impotent ; set him to write...effective. The power of French literature is in its ' prose- writers, the power of English literature is in its poets.' This must be admitted. Indeed,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold (Dichter, England) - 1869 - 438 páginas
...writing prose ! With a Frenchman of like stamp, it is just the reverse : set him to write poetry, he is limited, artificial, and impotent ; set him to write...free, natural, and effective. The power of French litera^ ture is in its prose-writers, the power of English literature/ is in its poets. Nay, many of... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 338 páginas
...prose ! With a Frenchman of like stamp, it is just the reverse : set him to write poetry, '35 he is limited, artificial, and impotent ; set him to write...effective. The power of French literature is in its prose writers, the power of English literature is in its poets. Nay, many of the celebrated French... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1902 - 402 páginas
...writing prose ! With a Frenchman of like stamp, it ) is just the reverse : set him to write poetry, he is limited, artificial, and impotent ; set him to write prose, he is free, natural, and effective. Thepower nf FrpnpVi 1it.ftr(if.iire is in its prose-writers, thepower oi English literature is in its... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - 1903 - 340 páginas
...[The original consists of eight sentences.] 2. The power of French literature is in its prose writers. The power of English literature is in its poets. Nay,...the qualities of intelligence which they exhibit. These qualities are the distinctive support of prose. Many of the celebrated English prose writers... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1909 - 402 páginas
...semicolon is generally used in those balanced compound sentences which dispense with a conjunction: The power of French literature is in its prose-writers; the power of English literature is in its poets. Except in cases, like the example, where the parts clearly balance against each other to express a... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1909 - 392 páginas
...semicolon is generally used in those balanced compound sentences which dispense with a conjunction: The power of French literature is in its prose-writers; the power of English literature is in its poets. Except in cases, like the example, where the parts clearly balance against each other to express a... | |
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