...jarre with time, Still may reason warre with rime Resting never, &c., &c. Milton condemns rhyme as " the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern 'Poets, carried away by custom, but much to...

...adopted by Milton. He was bold enough to denounce Rhyme as " the jingling sound of like endings," as "the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre " but he showed at the same time that none could afford to despise those minor artifices which often...

...It will be remembered what he calls it in the few words which he has prefixed to Paradise Lost — "the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; . . . a thing of itself to all judicious ears trivial and of no true musical delight" — with much...

...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...

...which was unknown to Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, and was even despised by Milton as " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre, as the jingling sound of like endings trivial to all judicious ears and of no true musical delight."...

...adopted by Milton. He was bold enough to denounce Rhyme as " the jingling sound of like endings," as " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre " but he showed at the same time that none could afford to despise those minor artifices which often...

...that our common English blank verse got or maintained the hold it has. The objection that rhime was ' the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' rests on ignorance of its real history. It cannot be considered as the exclusive invention of any particular...

...single rhyme. It is surprising that Milton, who used rhyme with admirable skill, should speak of it as the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. In the universality of rhyme, as in the further fact that it is peculiar neither to the rudeness of...

...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...

...single rhyme. It is surprising that Milton, who used rhyme with admirable skill, should speak of it as the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. In the universality of rhj^me, as in the further fact that it is peculiar neither to the rudeness of...