...equivalent to Verse, who had just before declar'd against Rime, as no true Ornament to good Verse, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched Matter and lame Meeter. I am persuaded, this Passage was given thus: Invoke thy aid to my adventrous WING, That with...

...rejected rime both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English 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...

...eventually said that rhyme is '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', 50 and it was certainly a perverse act of Dryden to help him to conform to eighteenth-century (can...

...being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but 892-1944 12649 An American Programme The constitutlon does not provide for f 7642 Paradise Regained Skilled to retire, and in retiring draw Hearts after them tangled in amorous...

...being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in larger Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter. The term is originally from the French blanc, meaning "white" — in the sense of "left white"...

...eventually said that rhyme is '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',5" and it was certainly a perverse act of Dryden to help him to conform to eighteenth-century...

...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." Some of the moderns had employed it, but to their general disadvantage, whereas the best of...

...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" (Milton 3). In der amerikanischen literarischen Tradition äußert sich eben dieses Anliegen...

...leave to tag his verses'.39 Despite his odie virtuosity in Samson Agonistes, Milton declares rhyme 'the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter', already rejected by 'our best English Tragedies' and quite unnecessary for the combination...

...rhyme is "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 meter." Milton argues that his poem is "an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered...