 THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - 第259页1823全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | 1892 - 848 页
...how he writes. As Milton found it necessary to his purpose in his great poem to reject rhyme, as " the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre," so Whitman thought it was necessary to his purpose to cast aside the technique of the schools as too... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 696 页
...his dictatorial remarks. 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. It was thus, obeying humanistic and Italian influences, that Surrey, followed by Sackville,... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1884 - 540 页
...blinded by his predilection for the ancient classics, calls rhyme (in the preface 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." Trench answers this... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1884 - 498 页
...verses as in his earlier poems; no rhymes, which he now called " the jingling sounds of like endings," "the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." At first he thought of taking the British King Arthur for the hero of his work, but finally chose a... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1885 - 612 页
...Jarre with time, Still may reason warre with rime Resting never, &c., &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... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 232 页
...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, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 634 页
...Rime being no necessavy 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 180 页
...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, carried away by custom, but 10 much to... | |
 | 1888 - 848 页
...delight ... 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.' From Milton's time blank verse has been as common a form for narrative, didactic, or descriptive poetry,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 页
...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,... | |
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