 | 1868
...that our common English blank verse got or maintained the hold it has. The objection that rhime was ' the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' rests on ignorance of its real history. It cannot be considered as the exclusive invention of any particular... | |
 | Friedrich August Wolf - 1869 - 1200 sivua
...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 : welcher Vorrede und Zueignung schreiben musste.... | |
 | Friedrich August Wolf - 1869 - 1200 sivua
...equivalent to Verse, who had just before declar'd against Anne, 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: welcher Vorrede und Zueignung schreiben musste.... | |
 | Christian Wilhelm Friedrich A. Wolf - 1869
...equivalent to Verse, who had just before declar'd against Rime , as no true Ornament to good Vert*, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched Matter und lame Meeter. I am persuaded, this Passage was given thus: welcher Vorrede und Zueignung schreiben... | |
 | John Milton - 1870
...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 686 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1870
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1871
...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... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1872 - 574 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 Meeter ; grae't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 141 sivua
...wrote in rime. In the preface, added in 1668 to Paradise Lost, he speaks of ' rime' as being nothing but ' the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' and congratulates himself upon haying in that poem set the first example in English ' of ancient liberty... | |
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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... 
