 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
 | 1856 - 540 pages
...clothe, is analogous to the description which Milton has bequeathed to us of rhyme, — that it was ' the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre.' For under such a guise the author contrives to tell us nothing of which the most juvenile reader could... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 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...constraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would have expressed them. Not without cause, therefore, some... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 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 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... | |
 | Abel François Villemain - French literature - 1857 - 500 pages
...of a barbarous age, etc., etc., graced indeed , since, by the use of some famous modem poets carryed away by custom, but much to their own, vexation, hindrance and constraint, to express m;my things otherwite and, for the most part, worse I heu rlsr. they would have expretsed them. »... | |
 | 1861 - 1050 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... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1858 - 672 pages
..." being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poems, or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter, and lame metre." — The same author goes on to disparage rhyme as " a thing in itself, to all judicious ears, trivial... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 pages
...to set off wretched mal 1er and lame mctre ; graccd indeed since li}1 Ihe use of some famous modem poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own...vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many thinhs other wise, and for thé most part worse, than else they would hâve expressed them. Not without... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - English language - 1860 - 716 pages
...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,...and constraint, to express many things otherwise and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them ***** a thing of itself to all judicious... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - English language - 1860 - 736 pages
...as " the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre; grac't in-, deed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried...and constraint, to express many things otherwise and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them ***** a thing of itself to all judicious... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - English language - 1860 - 718 pages
...Jarre with time, Still may reason warre with rime Resting never, ic., &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 their... | |
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