 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 - Pagina 300door James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 686 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pagina’s
...being no necessary adjunft 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; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pagina’s
...who lias 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, graced, indeed, since, by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...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 modem poets, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | 1823 - 782 pagina’s
...a narrative poem. M j'i. Rhyme is no necessary ad. junct or true ornament of good verse; it is hut the invention of a barbarous age., to set off wretched matter and lame metre. AV,.<. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not ? Mil. In some measure — for true it is, that... | |
 | 1823 - 772 pagina’s
...rhymes in a narrative poem. Mil. Rhyme is no necessary adjunct or true ornament of good verse; it is but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. Elw. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not ? Mil. In some measure — for true it is, that... | |
 | 1823 - 584 pagina’s
...rhymes in a narrative poem Mil. Rhyme is no necessary adjunct or true ornament of good verse; it is but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. Elw. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not? Mil. In some measure — for true it is, that... | |
 | 1823 - 858 pagina’s
...rhymes in a narrative poem. Mil. Rhyme is no necessary adjunct or true ornament of good verse; it is but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off' wretched matter and lame metre. Elw. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not ? Mil. In some measure — for true it is, that... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pagina’s
...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 Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 384 pagina’s
...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... | |
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