...the Art of Poetry; which has received, in my opinion, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind: it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem, frigidly didactick, without rhyme,...

...the Art of Poetry; which has received, in my opinion, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind: it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem, frigidly didactick, without rhyme,...

...sounds, and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme." 70 "Blank verse left merely to its numbers has little operation either on the ear or mind: it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images." 71 Thus the sublime Milton is admitted: also...

...is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme.« 71. ebenda, (Roscommon), S. 237: »Blank verse left merely to its numbers has little operation either on the ear or mind: it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images.« 72. ebenda, j (Mallet), 406. 73. ebenda,...

...that shrewd and penetrating critic, who observes in his notice of ' Roscommon,' that " blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind ; it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem, rigidly didactic, without rhyme, is...

...which has received, in my opinion, not fess praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to '<s numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind ; it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly didactic, without rhyme, is...