 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Side 2591823Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1877 - 836 sider
...is a fetter, and our Milton, when apologising for its omission in the Paradise Lost, called it " tho invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." Tet hU own lyrics show with what perfect ease aud incomparable grace he could wear the chain. Gifted... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 216 sider
...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 matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 106 sider
...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 matter and lame metre; graced indeed by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 218 sider
...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 matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 232 sider
...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 matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 706 sider
...caused him almost wholly to put aside the ornaments of rhyme — " invention," as he now called it, " of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre." Samson's lament for his blindness (11. 67-109) could, of course, be realized by the blind poet. He... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 sider
...rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in louger 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 to their... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 sider
...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 matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 410 sider
...speaks very severely against it as being "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." We may, I think (in spite of Milton's dictum), consider it to be essentially musical in its nature.... | |
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