...age to set off wretched matter and lame metre," "a barbarous and modern bondage," contrasting with "apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another." 2 This phrase, which has been treated as enigmatic, is quite clear in the context, addressed to Lawes...

...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which We've had wi' ane anither; Now we maun totter down,...John, And hand in hand we '11 go, And sleep thegither into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings — a fault avoided by the learned ancients...

...knew that the secret of harmonious verse lay in this subtle crossing and blending of the patterns, ' apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another '. Spenser was Milton's poetic father, and his poetic diction and elaborately varied harmony...

...when the poetical fashion was for rime and described it, in words not altogether clear, as consisting "only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...sense variously drawn out from one verse to another." 1 Apt numbers, that is, appropriate rhythms, Milton's verse certainly has; but it is the last item,...

...for enjambement in the introduction to Paradise Lost: . . . true musical delight . . . consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another . . ,28 * Julian and Maddalo. Paradise Lost itself is a first-rate school in which to...

...on the movement of poetry in the history of English literary criticism: True musical delight . . . consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another. (457) The first two of these properties are clearly metrical phenomena, however problematic...

...thing of it self, to all judicious ears, triveal and of no true musical delight; which consists onely 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...

...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 both...

...recall and expand upon Daniel's comments on number and the propitious use of meter: true musical delight "consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another."28 Milton, in his attempt on "Things unattempted," itself a trope indebted to the inexpressibility...

...characterizes as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial, and of no true mu sical delight; which consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another. . . . Ibriously means, among other things, the diversity of ways in which the sense is...