 | John Milton - 1893 - 190 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... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 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; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 sivua
...Paradise Lost about rhyme's 'being 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'. There is more to notice here than simply the irony of Young's borrowing from Milton in the cause of... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 sivua
...rejects the contemporary courtly fashion of rhymed couplets in favour of blank verse. Terming rhyme 'the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter, and lame metre', Milton argues that rhyme arrests meaning in a way analogous to the processes by which monarchs suppress... | |
 | Hildegard L. C. Tristram - 1991 - 328 sivua
...measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek and Virgil in Latin, rime being.. .but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre". (Milton, Poetical Works, p. 43). 7Cf. Tristram, "Mdtriques". Vf. Bernhard Bischoff, "Die europäische... | |
 | Burton Raffel - 2010 - 173 sivua
...Riming," which, Milton declaims, 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 Meter.") The use of syllable counting, plus the new emphasis on rhyme, also allowed English poetry... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - 1992 - 390 sivua
...But that is precisely what happened. Introducing Paradise Lost (1674), John Milton identified rime as "the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame meter," and in the poem itself he scorned chivalric romance. Rime had, he conceded, been "graced ...... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - 1995 - 314 sivua
...-"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 "-and observe the proud political gesture at the close, where Milton argues Paradise Lost as epic of... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 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; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but must... | |
 | Charles James Frank Dowsett - 1950 - 546 sivua
...Milton eventually 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', 50 and it was certainly a perverse act of Dryden to help him to conform to eighteenth-century (can... | |
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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... 
