 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 σελίδες
...verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; rime being no necessary adjunft or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer...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 σελίδες
...measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin ; rhyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poem...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... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 σελίδες
...Milton, who lias said, that " rhyme is no necessary adjunct, or true ornament, of poem or good verse ; 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 σελίδες
...measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Creek, and of Virgil in Latin : rhyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poem...barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modem poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 σελίδες
...measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem...especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set ofT wretched matter anil iame metre ; graced, indeed, since, by the use of some famous modern poets,... | |
 | 1814 - 258 σελίδες
...; 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 away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part... | |
 | 1823 - 782 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 σελίδες
...measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin : rhyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poem...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... | |
 | 1823 - 772 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | 1823 - 858 σελίδες
...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,... | |
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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... 
