 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
 | 1823 - 584 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 382 pages
...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 lamemeeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pages
...ihyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament, of poem or good verse, in larger works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched...carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hinderance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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'...constraint , to express many things otherwise , and for the most part worse , then else they would have expressed them. Not without cause, therefore ,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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...constraint , to express many things otherwise , and for the most part worse , then else they would have expressed them. Not without cause, therefore ,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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...constraint , to express many things otherwise , and for the most part worse, then else they would have expressed them. Not without cause, therefore , some... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...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 larne Metre; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...rhyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament, of poem or good verse, in larger works especially, but .the invention of a barbarous age, to set off...carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hinderance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else... | |
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