 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...  Among My Books - الصفحة 300بواسطة James Russell Lowell - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 686عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | John Milton - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...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... | |
 | 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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 - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...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... | |
 | 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 664
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...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... | |
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 1050
...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... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poems, or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous 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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