 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
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pages
...wrote in rime. In the preface, added in 1668 to Paradise Lost, he speaks of ' rime ' as being nothing but ' the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' and congratulates himself upon having in that poem set the first example in English ' of ancient liberty... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 pages
...thoroughgoing declaration on that side of the question yet to be found in the language. It calls Rhyme '' the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre," and speaks of it as " a thing of itsolf, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no musical delight,"... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1874 - 836 pages
...itself is a fetter, and our Milton, wheR apologising for its omission in the Paradise Lost, called it " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." Tet his own lyrics show with what perfect ease and incomparable grace he could wear the chain. Gifted... | |
 | Hymns, Latin - 1874 - 376 pages
...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 more... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1876 - 346 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pages
...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 Jouson,... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1877 - 324 pages
...Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer AVorks 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... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1877 - 836 pages
...is a fetter, and our Milton, when apologising for its omission in the Paradise Lost, called it " tho invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." Tet hU own lyrics show with what perfect ease aud incomparable grace he could wear the chain. Gifted... | |
 | Villemain (M., Abel-François) - French literature - 1878 - 498 pages
...invention ofabarbarous age, etc., etc., graced ihdeed, since, by the use of some famous modem poets carryed away by custom, but much to their own, vexation, hindrance...constraint, to express many things otherwise and, for the most part, worse then else they wouldhave expressed them. » Le sens logique, comme la construction... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1878 - 262 pages
...especially, but the Invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretehed matter and lame meeter ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part... | |
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