 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 wretched...  A History of English Poetry - Side 424af William John Courthope - 1903Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1848 - 468 sider
...an authority than Milton has pronounced it to be " no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poetry, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre," we would venture a denial of his assertion, sheltered behind the shields of succeeding and distinguished... | |
 | 1848 - 464 sider
...an authority than Milton has pronounced it to be " no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poetry, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre," we would venture a denial of his assertion, sheltered behind the shields of succeeding and distinguished... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 sider
...lofs of fight. ANDREW MARVEL. See note in Life, p. cvii. "THE VERSE." meafure is Englifh Heroic Verfe, without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin ; Rime being no neceflary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verfe, in longer Works efpecially, but the Invention... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 sider
...ANDREW MARVEL. * See note in Life, p. cvii. "THE VERSE." meafure is Englifh Heroic Verfe, withJL out Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin ; Rime being no necefTary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verfe, in longer Works efpecially, but the Invention... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 sider
...measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greet, and of Virgil in Latin ; rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem...invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter anil lame metre ; graced, indeed, since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 322 sider
...and measure, needs not rhyme. ANDEEW MARVEL. 1 See note in Life, p. Ixxvii. VOL. I. 11 "THE VEKSE." " THE measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Eime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 sider
...Homer in Qroek, and of Virgil in Latin ; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or trae Ornament of P«em or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the...barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much... | |
 | 1856 - 540 sider
...clothe, is analogous to the description which Milton has bequeathed to us of rhyme, — that it was ' the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre.' For under such a guise the author contrives to tell us nothing of which the most juvenile reader could... | |
 | 1861 - 1050 sider
...Simmons's Poet is made to say, — " The Measure is English Heroic Veree without Rime, as that of Homers in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary...barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1858 - 672 sider
...in Latin, &c. " Khyme," says that author, " being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poems, or good verse, in longer works especially, but the...age, to set off wretched matter, and lame metre." — The same author goes on to disparage rhyme as " a thing in itself, to all judicious ears, trivial... | |
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