...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...

...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...

...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...

...equivalent to Verse, who had just before declar'd against Anne, as no true Ornament to good Verse, but the Invention of a barbarous Age , to set off wretched Matter and lame Meeter. I am persuaded, this Passage was given thus: welcher Vorrede und Zueignung schreiben musste....

...equivalent to Verse, who had just before declar'd against Rime, as no true Ornament to good Verse, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched Matter and lame Meeter. I am persuaded , this Passage was given thus : welcher Vorrede und Zueignung schreiben musste....

...equivalent to Verse, who had just before declar'd against Rime , as no true Ornament to good Vert*, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched Matter und lame Meeter. I am persuaded, this Passage was given thus: welcher Vorrede und Zueignung schreiben...

...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, carried away by custom, but much to their...

...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,...

...blinded by his predilection for the ancient classics, calls rhyme (in the preface 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." Trench answers this...

...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 their...