 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 wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets,...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 401edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...rime 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 pages
...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...and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else they would have expressed them. Not without cause therefore some,... | |
 | Francisco Manuel do Nascimento - 1806 - 478 pages
...-wrétched matter, aud lame metre : grac'd indeed by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried »way by custom; but much to their own vexation , hindrance, and constraint to eipress many things othcrwise, and for t'is (9) — A rima, que te enleva, e que assim gábas? —... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...lame metre ; grac'd indeed since by the use of some famous modern pats, carried away by custom, l/ut much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part, worse than else they would have express'd tkem. Not without cause, therefore, some... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...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...metre; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modem poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set ofT wretched matter anil iame metre ; graced, indeed, since, by the use of some...and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would hare expressed them. Not without cause, therefore, some... | |
 | 1814 - 258 pages
...; but the invention of a barbarous age, to set oft' wretched matter and lame metre, graced,indced, since, by the use of some famous modern poets, carried...constraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than they would bavo expressed them." If the success of many modern poets,... | |
 | 1823 - 782 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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