 | John Milton - 1903 - 446 sider
...all-sufficiency of Blank Verse for " true musical delight," he says that such true musical delight " consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." Now, in this sense, I think I can report with some certainty that the most frequent... | |
 | David Laurance Chambers - 1903 - 84 sider
...III. BLANK VERSE. When Milton wrote in his preface to Paradise Lost of " true musical delight, which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another," he expressed an empirical truth about the harmony of blank verse, which it had taken... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 sider
...tragedies, as a thing of itself to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, — a fault avoided by the learned ancients... | |
 | Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 190 sider
...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both... | |
 | John Milton - 1904 - 328 sider
...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings — a fault avoided by the learned ancients... | |
 | 1907 - 466 sider
...authority that the heroic line contains three principal elements which he calls ' apt numbers,' a ' fit quantity of syllables ' and ' the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another.' The poet, therefore, as was his wont, set nothing above true harmony. He insisted on... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 sider
...Tragedies, as a thing of it self, to all judicious eares, triveal and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound 15 of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients... | |
 | Charles William Pearson - 1908 - 280 sider
...matter and lame metre — Rhyme to all judicious ears is trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another; not in jingling sounds of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients." The... | |
 | Warner Brown - 1908 - 98 sider
...to be measured rather than accentual verse. Milton12 speaks of the musical delight in poetry which "consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." Chas. Kingsley13 holds that English verse is not regulated by accent but by length of... | |
 | Naomi Norsworthy - 1908 - 648 sider
...to be measured rather than accentual verse. Milton12 speaks of the musical delight in poetry jvhich "consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." Chas. Kingsley13 holds that English verse is not regulated by accent but by length of... | |
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... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another... 
