 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1882 - 1192 pages
...barbarous Agv to set ofl' wretched Hatter and lanie Meeter: ferae' t indeed since by the use of Home famous Modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and const mint, to express many thing* otherwise, and for tho most part worse, then else they would have... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 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... | |
 | Lowry Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 333 pages
...age, to set off wretched matter with lame Meter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modem Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to their own...and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would have exprest them." The whole prefatory paragraph is a... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...own heroic originals here, Milton's statement at the beginning of Paradise Lost about rhyme's 'being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good...barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre'. There is more to notice here than simply the irony of Young's borrowing from Milton in the cause of... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 790 pages
...rejects the contemporary courtly fashion of rhymed couplets in favour of blank verse. Terming rhyme 'the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter, and lame metre', Milton argues that rhyme arrests meaning in a way analogous to the processes by which monarchs suppress... | |
 | Burton Raffel - Philosophy - 2010 - 173 pages
...angry prefatory denunciation of "the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming," which, Milton declaims, is "no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem...barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter.") The use of syllable counting, plus the new emphasis on rhyme, also allowed English poetry... | |
 | Hildegard L. C. Tristram - Folk poetry - 1991 - 328 pages
...measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek and Virgil in Latin, rime being.. .but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre". (Milton, Poetical Works, p. 43). 7Cf. Tristram, "Mdtriques". Vf. Bernhard Bischoff, "Die europäische... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 390 pages
...But that is precisely what happened. Introducing Paradise Lost (1674), John Milton identified rime as "the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame meter," and in the poem itself he scorned chivalric romance. Rime had, he conceded, been "graced ...... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...Rime here as 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: Invoke thy aid to my adventrous WING, That with... | |
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