 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight: which consists...Ancients, both in poetry and all good oratory. This negleft then of rhyme so little is to be taken for a defeft, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight : IV which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of...poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that... | |
 | Francisco Manuel do Nascimento - 1806 - 478 pages
...trivial, and of no true musical delight : which consists only in apt members , fit quantity of syllabes , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another; not in the jingling sound of lite endings; a fault av .ided^ty the learned ancients, both in poetry, and all good ora-- tory. This... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...: as liavealso long since our best English tragedies : as a thing of itself, to all jutlickms ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists...one verse into another ; not in the jingling sound oflike endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients, both in poetry and all good orator)-. This... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists...poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem, so perhaps to vulgav readers, that... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...as have also long since our best English tragedies f ; as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial, and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, • The first edition of Paradise Lost, in 1667, was without this apology for the verse. In 1668, when... | |
 | 1823 - 584 pages
...nobleness and beauty of this metre. Rhyme is a trivial thing, and of no true musical delight; for that consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, and not in the jingling sound of like endings, which, among the learned ancients, was ever... | |
 | England - 1823 - 772 pages
...nobleness and beauty of this metre. Rhyme is a trivial' thing, and of no true musical delight; for that consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, and not in the jingling sound of like endings, which, among the learned ancients, was ever... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...nobleness and beauty of this metre. Rhyme is a trivial thing, and of no true musical delight ; for that consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, and not in the jingling sound of like endings, which, among the learned ancients, was ever... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists...poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that... | |
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Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rime both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers,... 
