He is very severe on the English habit of "inserting utterly superfluous words," Instancing from Lord Beaconsfield, "He was by way of intimating that he was engaged on a great work," and, from a magazine, "She was by way of painting the shrimp girl."
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Hazlitt stated that there were some prose works that approached poetry without absolutely being poetry, Instancing Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Decameron.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
He states also that the verse writer who aims at producing no illusion but addresses the understanding is not a poet, Instancing Virgil when in the Georgics he describes a cow fit for breeding.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell