 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 - الصفحة 2591823عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Susan Stewart - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...rhyme 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... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 194
...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 Meter. . . This neglect then of Rime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 194
...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 Meter... This neglect then of Rime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 1072
..."Rime" was "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." (The underlining is Melville's in his copy of Milton.) True "musical delight," Milton declared,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...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 Meter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much... | |
 | Richard H. Lansing - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...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 Meter. . . . The cantankerous tone should not obscure what is being said. While it is difficult to... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 160
...precursors and originals - "Homer in Greek . . . Virgil in Latin" - and consequently thinks rhyme is merely "the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter" (Hughes, p. 210). (Homer and Virgil had used unrhymed hexameters in their epic poems.) Milton... | |
 | Edoardo Crisafulli - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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 metre" (ibid). Moreover, Cowper fully endorsed the analogical argument: he firmly believed that blank verse... | |
 | Robert Burns Shaw - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 321
...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 Meter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 250
..."Rime" was "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" (see Mathieu; the underlining is Melville's in his copy). True "musical delight," Milton declared,... | |
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