 | 1863 - 836 стор.
...adopted by Milton. He was bold enough to denounce Rhyme as " the jingling sound of like endings," as "the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre " but he showed at the same time that none could afford to despise those minor artifices which often... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1863 - 740 стор.
...jarre with time, Still may reason warre with rime Resting never, &c., &c. Milton condemns rhyme as " the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern 'Poets, carried away by custom, but much to... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1864 - 372 стор.
...It 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... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1865 - 428 стор.
...adopted by Milton. He was bold enough to denounce Rhyme as " the jingling sound of like endings," as " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre " but he showed at the same time that none could afford to despise those minor artifices which often... | |
 | Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff - 1874 - 692 стор.
...which was unknown to Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, and was even despised by Milton as " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre, as the jingling sound of like endings trivial to all judicious ears and of no true musical delight."... | |
 | 1868 - 862 стор.
...that our common English blank verse got or maintained the hold it has. The objection that rhime was ' the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' rests on ignorance of its real history. It cannot be considered as the exclusive invention of any particular... | |
 | John Milton - 1868 - 440 стор.
...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... | |
 | Hildebert - 1868 - 162 стор.
...single rhyme. It is surprising that Milton, who used rhyme with admirable skill, should speak of it as the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. In the universality of rhj^me, as in the further fact that it is peculiar neither to the rudeness of... | |
 | Hildebert - 1868 - 172 стор.
...single rhyme. It is surprising that Milton, who used rhyme with admirable skill, should speak of it as the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. In the universality of rhyme, as in the further fact that it is peculiar neither to the rudeness of... | |
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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... 
