 | John Milton - 1795
...rime being no necessary adjunft 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 meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | John Milton - 1801
...rhyme 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... | |
 | 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 matter and lame metre, graced, indeed, since, by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to... | |
 | 1823
...a narrative poem. M j'i. Rhyme is no necessary ad. junct or true ornament of good verse; it is hut the invention of a barbarous age., to set off wretched matter and lame metre. AV,.<. Then this is an experiment of thine, is it not ? Mil. In some measure — for true it is, that... | |
 | John Milton - 1824
...rhyme 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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826
...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... | |
 | 1826
...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 lamemeeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 324 sivua
...ihyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament, of poem or good verse, in larger 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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837
...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 - 1837 - 495 sivua
...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... | |
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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... 
