 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 Seiten
...wrote in rime. In the preface, added in 1668 to Paradise Lost, he speaks of ' rime ' as being nothing but ' the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' and congratulates himself upon having in that poem set the first example in English ' of ancient liberty... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 Seiten
...wrote in rime. In the preface, added in 1668 to Paradise Lost, he speaks of ' rime ' as being nothing but ' the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' and congratulates himself upon having in that poem set the first example in English ' of ancient liberty... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Wilhelm Münch - 1874 - 56 Seiten
...(„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 ... a thing to all judicious ears trivial, and of no true musical delight etc."), ег{феМ 31пде|хф18... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 Seiten
...thoroughgoing declaration on that side of the question yet to be found in the language. It calls Rhyme '' the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre," and speaks of it as " a thing of itsolf, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no musical delight,"... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1874 - 836 Seiten
...itself is a fetter, and our Milton, wheR apologising for its omission in the Paradise Lost, called it " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." Tet his own lyrics show with what perfect ease and incomparable grace he could wear the chain. Gifted... | |
 | 1874 - 376 Seiten
...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 more... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 Seiten
...writing in rhyme till he was past fifty, he finds it unsuitable for his epic, and it at once becomes " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." If the structure of his mind be undramatic, why, then, the English drama is naught, learned Jouson,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 346 Seiten
...writing in rhyme till he was past fifty, he finds it unsuitable for his epic, and it at once becomes " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." If the structure of his mind be undramatic, why, then, the English drama is naught, learned Jonson,... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1877 - 324 Seiten
...Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer AVorks 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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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... 
