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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... "
The Yale Literary Magazine - Página 336
1848
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volumen2

1888 - 848 páginas
...delight ... 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.' From Milton's time blank verse has been as common a form for narrative, didactic, or descriptive poetry,...
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The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays

James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 páginas
...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,...
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Select Essays of Dr. Johnson: The Rambler (Continued). The Adventurer. The Idler

Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 páginas
...sometimes be borne, if the lines be often broken, and the pauses judiciously diversified. 1 " Rhyme is 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...
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Select Essays, Volumen2

Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 páginas
...sometimes be borne, if the lines be often broken, and the pauses judiciously diversified. 1 *' Rhyme is 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...
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Milton's Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1890 - 262 páginas
...his reasons for the low opinion he had of rhyme as an instrument of verse : — namely, that " it is the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre " ; and a thing " to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight." His theory receives...
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Literature and Poetry: Studies on the English Language; the Poetry of the ...

Philip Schaff - 1890 - 476 páginas
...rhyme was unknown to Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, Virgil and Horace ; it 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."...
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essays

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 434 páginas
...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 Ms mind be undramatic, why, then, the English drama- is naught, learned Jonson,...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volumen2

1891 - 912 páginas
...delight . . . 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.' From Milton's time blank verse has been as common a form for narrative, didactic, or descriptive poetry,...
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Paradise Lost: Books XI and XII

John Milton - 1892 - 198 páginas
...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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volumen1

John Milton - 1892 - 654 páginas
...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...
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