 THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off...  Underbrush - Seite 14von James Thomas Fields - 1877 - 303 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 Seiten
...Virgil in Latin; rime being no necessary adjunft or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 Seiten
...in Latin ; rhyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 Seiten
...Milton, who lias said, that " rhyme is no necessary adjunct, or true ornament, of poem or good verse ; but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre, graced, indeed, since, by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...especially, but the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modem poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for tit most part... | |
 | 1823 - 782 Seiten
...a narrative poem. M j'i. Rhyme is no necessary ad. junct or true ornament of good verse; it is hut the invention of a barbarous age., to set off wretched matter and lame metre. AV,.<. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not ? Mil. In some measure — for true it... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 Seiten
...in Latin : rhyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | 1823 - 584 Seiten
...rhymes in a narrative poem Mil. Rhyme is no necessary adjunct or true ornament of good verse; it is but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. Elw. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not? Mil. In some measure — for true it is,... | |
 | 1823 - 858 Seiten
...rhymes in a narrative poem. Mil. Rhyme is no necessary adjunct or true ornament of good verse; it is but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off' wretched matter and lame metre. Elw. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not ? Mil. In some measure — for true it is,... | |
 | 1823 - 772 Seiten
...rhymes in a narrative poem. Mil. Rhyme is no necessary adjunct or true ornament of good verse; it is but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. Elw. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not ? Mil. In some measure — for true it is,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 Seiten
...in Latin ; rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre; graced -indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
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