 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pagina’s
...prefervation of every verfe unmingled with another, as a diftindt fyftem of founds ; and this diftinctnefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme....periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few fldlful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pagina’s
...prelervation of every verfe unmingled with another, as a diftinc"b fyftem of founds 5 and this diftinctnefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme....boafted by the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafuresof an Englifh poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few fkilful and happy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pagina’s
...unmingled with another, as a diftincl: fyftem of founds ; and this diftinclnefs is obtained and preferred by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of paufes, fo...the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafures of sin Englim poet to the periods of a decl aimer ; and there are only a few fltilful and happy readers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pagina’s
...diftinctnefs is obtained and preferred by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of paufes, fo much bo?.fted by the lovers of blank. verfe, changes the meafures...the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few Ikiiful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to pereeive where the lines end or begin.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pagina’s
...prefervation of every vcrfe unmingled with another as a diftinct fyilem of founds ; and this diftiactnefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of paufes, fo much bcaftcJ by the. lovers oC blank veric, changes the rneafures of an Englifh poet $o the periods of a... | |
 | 1788 - 750 pagina’s
...probability!, and good declamation, as rhyme. Pr. Johnlon has fdid, in his Lives of the Poets, that " the variety of paufes fo much boafted by the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafure of an Englifh poet to the periods o; declamation." And on this text our author feems to preach.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pagina’s
...prefervation of every verfe unmingled with another as a diftinct fyftem of founds; and this diftinctnefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme....the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pagina’s
...prefervation of every verfe unmingled with another, as a diftinct fyftem of founds; and this diftin<5tnefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme....of blank verfe, changes the meafures of an Englifh pdet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few fkilful and happy readers of Milton,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagina’s
...variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lover? of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin.... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 156 pagina’s
...annihilated, and the poetry abfurrily B 5 reduced reduced to mere profe. " There are," fays Dr. Johnfon *, " only a few fkilful and happy readers " of Milton, who enable their audience, to per" ceive, where the lines end or begin." It may be obferved, that, in the foregoing paffages from... | |
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... by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers, of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience... 
