 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,...  Paradise Lost: Books XI and XII - Seite xlvivon John Milton - 1892 - 104 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1795
...works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern...to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would have expressed them.... | |
 | John Milton - 1801
...measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin ; rhyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poem...to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else they would have expressed them.... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804
...Milton, who lias said, that " rhyme is no necessary adjunct, or true ornament, of poem or good verse ; but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched...their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many things otherwise, and tor the most part worse, than they would have expressed them." If... | |
 | Francisco Manuel do Nascimento - 1806
...-wrétched matter, aud lame metre : grac'd indeed by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried »way by custom; but much to their own vexation , hindrance, and constraint to eipress many things othcrwise, and for t'is (9) — A rima, que te enleva, e que assim gábas? —... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810
...age to set off wretched matter and lame metre; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modem poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for tit most part worse than else they would have expressed them.... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 565 Seiten
...longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set ofT wretched matter anil iame metre ; graced, indeed, since, by the use of some...to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would hare expressed them.... | |
 | 1814
...; but the invention of a barbarous age, to set oft' wretched matter and lame metre, graced,indced, since, by the use of some famous modern poets, carried...their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than they would bavo expressed them." If... | |
 | British poets - 1822
...measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin : rhyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poem...to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would have expressed them.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824
...measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem...to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would have expressed them.... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826
...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 to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part... | |
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